Stop the corporate take over of our schools, say no to Biometric data collection.

I am a parent of children that attend a state school in Western Australia and I have recently discovered that our children have had their privacy violated by the state by scanning the children 's finger prints without consent. The state and schools have allowed the introduction of 'Biometric's, which is the measurement of unique and distinctive physical, biological characteristics used to confirm the identity of individuals.' It is a tool for the accumulation of our children's data and stored in a global data base ultimately owned by FOX. This action is a violation of our children s privacy and the technology has no restrictions on standards in the biometric process, from collecting and retaining data as well as authorized access that can be traded by corporations, including potential employees, insurance companies, and government departments. The deployment of biometric technology is unregulated by law and fails to incorporate privacy and data protection standards in their procedures. There is a need to identify ethical impacts, the dangers of the amassment of data, and considerations of cultural and social norms. We want the return of our children s data and a halt to the acquisition of new student data in a biometric system.