Academy Attendance is proud to release an Australian first. Students use their fingerprint to log onto the attendance system. This is fast, safe and secure. No swapping of cards, no more lost card excuses!

Utilizing biometrics for personal identification is becoming convenient and considerably more accurate than current methods like PINs or cards. This is because biometrics link the event to a particular individual (a PIN or card may be used by someone other than the authorized user), is convenient (nothing to carry or remember), accurate (it provides positive identification), can provide an audit trail, is becoming socially acceptable, and can be cost-effective. Unlike a PIN or card, it cannot be forgotten, misplaced, lost, or stolen. Biometrics ensure that a person is actually the sanctioned user, and not in possession of a stolen card or someone who found, hacked or cracked a PIN.

'This system will not store actual fingerprint images'

Privacy concerns
It is important to note that at no time will the software store actual fingerprint images. It will store only templates that are a numeric representation of the minutiae of the individual fingerprint. Although a template can be used for matching, the actual fingerprint cannot be “reconstructed” from a template. This is the main privacy objection regarding finger scans.