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School backflips on toilet scanner plan

NCA NewsWire December 8, 2022Last Updated: March 17, 2023
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Moorebank High School installed touch pads to scan students' fingerprints. Picture: Supplied.

A Sydney high school has backed down on a plan to start scanning students’ fingerprints when they use the toilets, after claiming it would stamp out “vandalism."

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