California school mandates RFID tags for students
Posted Feb 12, 2005, 2:25 AM ET by Marc Perton
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A small-town school in California has become the latest to mandate that students wear RFID-based ID cards when on campus. According to Brittan Elementary School officials in Sutter, a rural farming community, the tags have been implemented to simplify attendance-taking and reduce vandalism. In addition to tracking students in classrooms, the school??s principal wants them tracked in bathrooms and locker rooms. Parents and the ACLU have raised privacy and civil-liberties concerns. Some have also questioned the financial relationship between the school and the cards?? manufacturer, which is paying the school to try out the cards and offering it commissions on future sales to other schools. However, the principal, Earnie Graham, has another explanation for student objections. ??You know what it comes down to? I believe junior high students want to be stylish. This is not stylish,? he said. Okay, guess they??ll have to switch to implants, then.









Here is another example of the RFID's, they start out as a benefit to everday life. Or atleast thats what they tell you, stateing reasons from ones above to makeing it easier to pay bills and check out of the super market. But what noone has stated is who is in control of your personal Info. Why would you volunteer to give everybit of your personal information to a stranger?

Not to mention that just because they tell you that these chips are doing one job, doesnt mean that they are not doing any other jobs. Truth is the stuff is so new that there are very few people in the world that can actually say what technology is inside the chips and what functions they serve.

How would you like it if the FBI, CIA or any Police force nation wide could listen in on your personal conversations with your wife or kids. You have no idea if these chips are capable of recording conversations or not. For all any of us know these chips could be tuned into key words and start recording when they detect them, and with wireless technology as good as it is who is to say that these chips dont have to ability to then transmit that conversation to a database for investigation.

Or for that matter have the ability to directly transmit the information apon being enabled to do so.

This is so scary.