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Article: Merseyside schoolchildren are being fingerprinted.(News)

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August 16, 2006
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Byline: BY JESSICA SHAUGHNESSY Daily Post Staff

SCHOOLCHILDREN across Merseyside are being fingerprinted in the classroom, it was claimed last night.

Five schools in Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington are said to be among hundreds in the country to use a new biometric system.

The Government says the method is mainly used for accessing school libraries, but critics last night described it as a "big brother system".

Campaigners are demanding the system be banned after reports of children being fingerprinted without parental consent.

The leave them children alone.com website lists 200 schools where the system is in ...

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