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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. This was already being done in the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There's a school in Kansas City, MO (can't remember the name of it) that did something very much like this after the Columbine High School shootings. They have (or had) armed guards posted at the entrances to the school and they forced all students, faculty, and visitors to wear "ID badges" on cords around their necks that were credit card-sized thick plastic cards, each containing something tracked from the (very expensive-seeming) "command center" thing near the administrative offices. Anyone found without a badge was supposed to be taken and arrested. This was in addition to extensive x-ray/metal detector scanners installed at the entrances.

  2. That fresh from the dryer feeling. by Kaenneth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Clothes fresh from the dryer feel wonderfully warm and cozy, but who has the time to wait for the dryer to warm up all the way?

    A quick, easy solution is to pop your clothes in the Microwave for a few seconds, and Presto!, warm and fuzzy!

    Just don't try it with metal zippers or buttons, nylon might melt, you might start a fire...

  3. Re:oops... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Forget the shirts, My high school (and alot of other high schools in Scotland, part of the UK for anyone who doesn't know) issue'd everyone with a 'young scot card' (dubbed a smart card), it was designed to replace our library cards (both the school library and the public librarys) our 'Live Active' (card used by council run gyms, sports halls etc) and they where used in school dining centers to replace cash (there where top-up machines around the school where you could put money on our cards).

    It was a printed photo ID with a 'PASS' hologram (approved by the UK goverment for proof of age)and the local councils logo on the back with, surprise surprise, a pasive RFID chip.

    They don't have to implant the chips in school uniforms, we had to carry our cards if we wanted to eat from the school dining center or get books out of the library (which alot of students have to do often for classes) so it wasn't really a choice... and they even had the teachers carrying active RFID tags (they where used as door keys for the front doors).