Catholic School Adopts Cashless Biometric Payment System

Pupils are lining up to be scanned at All Saints Catholic College at Bradley Bar, which has followed other Kirklees schools in introducing a biometric payment system to replace cash for school dinners. Students have had their fingers scanned to set up accounts like bank accounts. They contain information about cash balances and what they have bought and when. Instead of handing over cash at the till the pupils press their finger against a machine which recognises the print and relays the information. A spokeswoman for the school said: “Each individual’s finger and thumb prints are unique. The biometric cashless system will store only a section of the print as a unique number and not as an image. Each student will have that unique number stored on a central server. This is done by scanning the finger or thumb with a non-evasive electronic scanner, which passes light over the finger or thumb.”