“Extreme And Unreasonable”: Sydney School Criticised For Installing Fingerprint Scanners Outside Toilets
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School's 1,000 students have already registered their fingerprints. (Representative pic)A high school in Australia has unveiled a controversial plan to scan students' fingerprints in order to combat ongoing vandalism. According to The Guardian, the Moorebank High School in Sydney installed biometric systems at the entrance of toilets in June. But it was only recently that school principal Vally Grego notified parents via a newsletter that the new system would be implemented to "monitor students" movement during class time. "The system will roll out in term three for the external student toilets only," she wrote in a letter to parents, as per the outlet. "We are introducing this system to monitor students' movement during class time and to reduce the incidents of vandalism. We will...