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Reading, Writing, RFID
supabeast! writes "Wired has a story about a public charter school in Buffalo that now tracks student attendence with mandatory RFID tags. The school's director said 'All this relates to safety and keeping track of kids...Eventually it will become a monitoring tool for us..' In the future the system will expand to '...track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office...punctuality...and to verify the time [students] get on and off school buses.' I think that we can all stop calling the privacy advocates paranoid now."
1984?
"Old man yells at systemd"
Scary? Why? I sit at work and have absolutely no expectation of privacy. My boss could walk in at any time and, in part, my behavior is based on that knowledge. I don't see why kids should have it any better.
Another thing is that these are kids and privacy isn't a "right", it's a privilege that you have to earn. I have 2 small children and as far as I'm concerned the school can track them to within 5mm if they so desire, and keep me informed about the fact that they do it and for what purpose. Shoot, I'd ask them to provide me with the frequency so I could track them off school grounds myself!
When you have kids you'll take whatever steps are necessary to protect them. If that means they have to live without much privacy for 18 or so years of their life then so be it! They have approx. 70 more to have all the privacy they want.
G.