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Students Tracked By RFID
TheMeuge writes "The New York Times is
reporting
a new development in the unrelenting progress of the
RFID juggernaut. The school district
of
Spring, Texas has adopted RFID as a way to track students' arrival and
departure. Upon being scanned, the data are transmitted to both the school
administrators, as well as city police. I guess cutting class is no longer an
option."
I'm an admin in a school, and for the pupils, this is actually a benefit. The closest thing we've come to a seamless registration is using swipe cards, which get lost, traded, broken, etc. This system gives the students the freedom to come and go as they please, and in the event of a fire, for example, we know exactly where students are at any time, without having to hope that when they signed out, they remembered to swipe out.... I can imagine the majority of tin foil hat replies to this post, but just for once, if you're not in the position to be affected by this, shut the hell up.....
Well, I don't care for all the god/bible references really, since I am of the opinion it is crap (in the sense that it comes from a Higher Authority).
But you make some very good points.
"After all, if you've done nothing wrong, what's to fear?"
Indeed, indeed! That was used to let us swallow the streetcams too, and it is used again and again and again, while at the same time gaining more and more power to control.
It's SUCH bull...Whenever I see the people that say 'if you have nothing done, what's to fear?' I have the tendency to ask why they themselves don't hang camera's in their homes, bed and toilet included, then. After all, it might help reduce domestic violence. And surely they can't object, unless they have something to hide?
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