[UPDATE: the link below doesn't work; here's another link and here's one more.]

This article is about a new school in England that's going to start scanning their student's retinas.

The reason? So that the disadvantaged students who get free lunches won't be stigmatized.

Oh, and by the way, they'll also use the same system in place of a library card. The reason they use it as the library card is not to avoid stigmatization, but because it's just so darned convenient.

Does this sound like something the students, their parents, and all of Britain should be concerned with? Quell your concerns:

[The school headmaster] assured parents the low-intensity light of the retina scanning devices will be safe for all students.

"We think we are the first (school) in the country to use this," he said of the device. "But this is not a James Bond school for spies. ... This is not science fiction. This is technology that exists."

See, don't you feel all safer inside knowing that it's not just safe, but that it's today's technology?