Florida lawmakers push bills banning biometric scans of school children

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A man holds his finger over a scanning unit at the local registration office at the city hall in PotsdamBy Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Florida lawmakers on Tuesday gave unanimous preliminary approval to bills seeking to forbid school districts from collecting biometric data on students. The issue is being taken up after parents were outraged in 2013 to find students' eyes were being scanned as a condition of boarding school buses in central Florida's Polk County School District. Stanley Convergent Security Solutions, a part of Connecticut-based Stanley Black & Decker, captured the iris images of 750 students in a pilot project before it was stopped, according to the local Lakeland Ledger newspaper.

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