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25-11-2008, 05:36 AM
Crèches to fingerprint parents
Berlin - Some Berlin crèches are to start demanding fingerprints of parents when they drop off their children to ensure they are not picked up by criminals, organisers said on Monday.
Seventeen day care centres run by the Lutheran Church in the German capital are to participate in a three-month pilot programme in which parents or designated caregivers would leave their prints to verify their identity.
"In the morning when the parents bring their child they press their finger to the machine," Kathrin Janert, the managing director of the Lutheran Day Care Centre Association in Berlin-Schoeneberg, told RBB-Welle radio.
"And when they pick them up they put their finger back on the scanner."
Janert said the programme would allow the church-run centres to know they were putting children in safe hands.
But she stressed that before the programme is permanently implemented, the church would survey parents on their experiences and reassure them that their biometric data will not be handed on to third parties.
"It will only work if we do it together," she said.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2431839,00.html
anything to protect the children.... :rolleyes:
Berlin - Some Berlin crèches are to start demanding fingerprints of parents when they drop off their children to ensure they are not picked up by criminals, organisers said on Monday.
Seventeen day care centres run by the Lutheran Church in the German capital are to participate in a three-month pilot programme in which parents or designated caregivers would leave their prints to verify their identity.
"In the morning when the parents bring their child they press their finger to the machine," Kathrin Janert, the managing director of the Lutheran Day Care Centre Association in Berlin-Schoeneberg, told RBB-Welle radio.
"And when they pick them up they put their finger back on the scanner."
Janert said the programme would allow the church-run centres to know they were putting children in safe hands.
But she stressed that before the programme is permanently implemented, the church would survey parents on their experiences and reassure them that their biometric data will not be handed on to third parties.
"It will only work if we do it together," she said.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2431839,00.html
anything to protect the children.... :rolleyes: