XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.politics.id-cards, uk.education.misc   
   XPost: alt.privacy, alt.politics.british   
   From: nospam@nospam.net   
      
   banana wrote:   
   > In article <498fo0Fne384U2@individual.net>, humble.life   
   >  writes   
   >   
   >> banana wrote:   
   >>> 1) You can be absolutely certain - and I mean 100% certain - that the   
   >>> fingerprint info taken from children at UK schools (including without   
   >>> asking permission from parents) is being centrally gathered and retained   
   >>> by the secret State.   
   >   
   >> oh we had that when i was at school,   
   >>   
   >> the police liason officer came in (probably mid-80's) and took the   
   >> classes fingerprints.  they took them away and then they sent them back   
   >> to the school where we all got "gold stars" and a "house point".   
   >>   
   >> back then, no-one battered an eyelid.   
   >   
   > Which country? I'd be interested to hear more.   
   >   
      
   UK, marlow, buckinghamshire   
      
   > I believe some opticians in the UK in the late 1990s were secretly   
   > taking retinal info too. It's easy to get tinpot Nazis or 'professional'   
   > money-grabbers to do their bit for 'security' and feel really cool when   
   > they do so...   
   >   
      
   indeed   
      
   > There was (is?) widespread secret 'IQ' testing in UK schools too...   
   >   
   > A friend of mine did some covert investigation and was told by a school   
   > secretary that goings-on with the whole 'Unique Pupil Number' (UPN)   
   > system was (quote) 'very hush-hush'.   
   >   
      
   indeed   
      
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