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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."

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  1. how true by N3wsByt3 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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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