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Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips

Posted by kdawson on from the sees-you-when-you're-sleeping dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ten kids in a pilot program in the Hungerhill School in Edenthorpe, England will participate in a program that puts RFID chips in students' uniforms to keep track of their whereabouts. A group called 'Leave Them Kids Alone' is opposing the program. Bruce Schneier blogs: '...Now it's easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you're elsewhere.'"

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  1. oops... by thekm · · Score: 4, Funny

    lost my shirt trying to make the first post...

  2. reverse psychology by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this is a very responsible use of "human monitoring". Its voluntary, its in there CLOTHES, and its only useful at school.

    Yeah, but when you start requiring specific clothes, all you're going to do is entice the teenagers to get naked. You don't want to have naked teenagers on your hands, do you? I know I would. I mean, wouldn't. Right.

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  3. Well, we had him on grand theft by istartedi · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the record plainly shows he spent all day up inside the ceiling tiles. Off to search for the real perpetrator, cheery-o!

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  4. This just in by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sensors have been added to warn school officials if the students' pants are being worn too low.

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  5. What he said. by Jethro · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would sign up for such a program SPECIFICALLY to mess with it.

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