White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake
This article makes it sound like White Castle was collecting "biometric data" to invade employees' privacy, as if it were using it to track their movement or connect them to potential crimes.<p>The reality is "use of workers' fingerprints to access pay stubs and company computers". So it set up a fingerprint reader much like the one I use to unlock my MacBook, or sign in at my doctor's office, or open the turnstile at my gym.<p>I understand that according to Illinois state law this is illegal without consent, and so legally they missed having employees sign a form. But morally/ethically is there really any problem with this? This is just how iPhones and MacBooks work, for example. Really seems like perhaps Illionis state law needs to be updated to reflect the widespread use of fingerprint readers for authentication on computers, tablets and phones.