finger printing

glitter_sunflowergold

my work is bringing in finger print signing in - my concern is where will my data be stored and very expensive method I think. has any one else had this happen at their work?

MissSarah1972

glitter_sunflowergold wrote: »

my work is bringing in finger print signing in - my concern is where will my data be stored and very expensive method I think. has any one else had this happen at their work?

Have you asked your work? We can not possibly say.

kingfisherblue

I haven't seen it in the workplace, but my son's school runs a cashless canteen using fingerprints. The staff as well as the children have their prints scanned and payment for their food is taken from their account.

It was all explained properly to us before my son started in the school.

Your employers should give you a full explaination of how the system is to be used, who will have access to the data, where it will be stored, whether and how it will be disposed of if you leave the company, etc.

Why not ask them?

glitter_sunflowergold

they wont' tell us any more

MissSarah1972

glitter_sunflowergold wrote: »

they wont' tell us any more

You have asked why they are doing it?

I do think you probably have the right to know how or where it will be stored and who has access to it.

jonathon

we use finger print recognition at work to sign in and out it is linked to payroll

ohreally

glitter_sunflowergold wrote: »

they wont' tell us any more

Then it’s time to start asking serious questions and holding management to account - have you to be at the whim of management everytime someone has a brainwave.

Is there a trade union involved in this? If there is I’d be going ape at them for permitting such a ludicrous situation that the employees are being denied access to information.

If they want this information from you, they need to start supplying answers rather than withholding information.

If a genuine need exists then it should be put out for discussion through the correct channels and agreement sought from the workforce instead of the employer simply imposing their will for no apparent reason.

dacouch

Use it at my gym

Jinx

Used it at our work - it wasnt linked to anything outside the building and it wasnt a fingerprint as such - it was a photo replica.

kingfisherblue

OP, there is another forum that has covered this topic - you might find it interesting:

http://www.workplacelaw.net/services/forum/thread?id=3016

dickydonkin

ohreally wrote: »

Then it’s time to start asking serious questions and holding management to account - have you to be at the whim of management everytime someone has a brainwave.

Is there a trade union involved in this? If there is I’d be going ape at them for permitting such a ludicrous situation that the employees are being denied access to information.

If they want this information from you, they need to start supplying answers rather than withholding information.

If a genuine need exists then it should be put out for discussion through the correct channels and agreement sought from the workforce instead of the employer simply imposing their will for no apparent reason.

Hold management to account? What - for moving with the times and making time and attendance monitoring more efficient? Getting unions involved?

Seems we are harking back to the days of the industrial revolution.

It is an efficient system for clocking in - nothing more sinister than that.

Where I used to work, we used this system and as someone alluded to earlier, it was linked to payroll and also was used in fire drills - so it also had safety features.

There seems to be a bit of paranoia on this thread regarding a system that many companies use nowadays for security and time & attendance. What do you think a company will do with electronically stored fingerprint images? Sell them to the Police or MI5?

It is certainly a step forward from the old days when we used clocking cards!