On the show, we mentioned the new social networking website, Anne’s Diary, which includes a number of features to make sure that the only users are the girls from the ages of 6-14 who register for the site. We asked you what you thought: is this a good way of giving web ‘training wheels’ to children? Let us know.
One of the features Anne’s Diary uses is a fingerprint reader. (More information on the fingerprint reader is here at their website)
We’re preparing a piece for an upcoming episode of Spark on this increasingly common technology.
I have been looking at biometric technology and I have to say this is a good use of the technology.
Protecting kids, information and the like will become more and more important over the coming years…fair play to them for actually implementing the technology in the first place..
Don’t forget that the Japanese newspapers are talking about a south Korean woman who used tape with fake finger prints on it, and a fake passport, to fool airport security. The illusions of security that fingerprinting engenders…