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Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-everywhere-they're-everywhere dept.

AT writes "The Brittan School District in Sutter County, California, is requiring students to carry RFID-tagged identity badges on them at all times. Readers are currently installed at the doors to all classrooms. Readers were removed from bathrooms when parents protested. The school district is meeting next week to consider parents objections to the system." Relatedly (but not), Leilah writes "The University of California is considering using RFID tags or bar codes to help track their collection of bodies and parts. They are attempting to reopen their body donation program which has been on hold since spring 2004 due to disappearing parts - they've previously had legal trouble over improper disposal as well."

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  1. this is great. by de1orean · · Score: 5, Funny

    now the school will know when kids leave campus and go to Steve Wynn's casino on the Las Vegas strip.

    or the morgue.

  2. RFID good? by t_allardyce · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well the upside to all this is that if a major school shooting takes place, the university will be all set up for the bodies.

    (ducks)

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  3. Obvious solution by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get together several times a day to trade id badges... and leave the staff wondering why the girls are going to the boy's restroom, etc.! They can require you to carry an ID, but can they enforce a requirement to carry YOUR OWN ID?

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  4. Outlaws by imscarr · · Score: 5, Funny

    When RFID spoofers are outlawed, only outlaws will have RFID spoofers.

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  5. Don't you just hate it.;.. by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when you can't remember where you left a cadaver?

  6. Re:There Is No Escape by fm6 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... but tracking a human is a different matter entirely.
    We're not talking about humans, we're talking about students!
  7. Re:Missing Parts? by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Somebody please clue me in here. What sort of a
    > sick excuse for a human being would steal parts of
    > a cadaver???

    No kidding. Normal people would take the whole damn thing.

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  8. Re:About damn time by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do you hate America?