https://reclaimthenet.org/maine-school-backtracks-on-using-fingerprints-to-track-students
"Following our recent reporting, and in the face of mounting criticism from parents and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, a plan to utilize biometric technology for student attendance tracking by Caribou High School has now been dropped.
The shelved project involved the deployment of identiMetrics, a fingerprint detection software produced by a Pennsylvania-based company. The software was aimed at bolstering student record accuracy and circumventing issues tied to missing student ID cards."