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Chain goes for fingerprints
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
24 July 2008
Busy Bees, the UK's largest nursery chain, is installing a 'fingerprint' entry system at all its nurseries. The nursery group has signed a £500,000 deal with UK Biometrics to install the technology across its 113 settings.
It costs around £4,000 to install the system, and Busy Bees has been testing it at 14 nurseries in the past year. Once a user's fingerprints are registered, the sensor pad scans 27 'minutiae' - key points on the fingerprint unique to the individual - and matches them up. Busy Bees said the data is only held by the nursery and it is impossible to recreate an individual...
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