XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.politics.id-cards, uk.education.misc   
   XPost: alt.privacy, alt.politics.british   
   From: elvis@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:13:16 +0100, humble.life wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   That's when the rot started.   
      
   They wouldn't have dreamed doing such a thing 20 years earlier.   
      
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