Florida lawmakers are considering legislation “to sharply regulate the use of fingerprint, palm print, iris scans and other biometric identification systems,” Reuters reports. The legislators are examining the issue in the wake of outrage from parents who learned last year that “students' eyes were being scanned as a condition of boarding school buses in central Florida's Polk County School District.” The Florida Senate Education Committee is reviewing a bill “that would require school districts choosing to use biometrics to establish strict policies on the public disclosure, use and maintenance of the stored data, and require parents to choose to participate in the program before their children's data is taken,” the report states.
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