RFID is here!

[SnoopisTDI]

Students Ordered to Wear Traciking Tags

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"Your papers, sir."

[TexasF355F1]

Of course, he California goes again. Fucking nutjobs. And they say they have a spending problem. Maybe b/c of crap like this. They do realize that doing stuff like this is going to cause one child to snap and kill people right?

[KustmAce]

If people really wanted to vandalize, you would think they would just...um...i dont know...take of the badge things?

But that is so fucked up. I can see having the kids to wear ID badges, because a couple of schools here do that for safety reasons, but radio tracking them? Thats just wrong.

[Muscletang]

I thought I'd never say this but this is one time I actually agree with the ACLU.

We have the student bar code on our student I.D.'s at my school to pay for lunch and stuff. It doesn't track us or anthing, trust me on that one, but is useful with lunch and the library.

I don't see how it's going to improve anything though on what students do. You can say "I'm going to the bathroom" and drop the thing in the toilet and go on your way. I think we'll see these things go away in the next couple of months.

[-GS-]

This is by far the stupidest thing i have ever heard off. People get mad when the government wanted all cars to have tracking devices put in them, and yet they want children to wear a piece that tells the schools exactly what their doing at every point of the day.

How is this even going to deter anything? Everyone is just going to take it off, and if they malfunction and it shows the students doing things there not, then what happens?

Human stupidity has no limit.

[Toksin]

Where are the civil liberties people on this?

[Tehvisseeus]

Man my state is lame.

[Kurtdg19]

Only in California would stuff like this happen.....

This would resonable in a prision, yet somewhat foolish, moronic, numskulled, what else am I missing....oh yea, and dim-witted for preteens attending public schools.

Mines will just lock the students in their classroom and have personal escorts for those who need to pee.

This is a grade school correct? Imagine what the potential future will hold for highschoolers who can actually drive....

[T4 Primera]

InCom has paid the school several thousand dollars for agreeing to the experiment, and has promised a royalty from each sale if the system takes off, said the company's co-founder, Michael Dobson, who works as a technology specialist in the town's high school. Brittan's technology aide also works part-time for InCom.

That really says it all doesn't it?

The trick is to realise that where they use the word experiment, it is a social experiment they are doing rather than a technical one. They are not testing if the system works.

This social experiment gathers data for the purposes of working out how best to deal with any social resistance to the product.

[SnoopisTDI]

Originally Posted by T4 Primera

The trick is to realise that where they use the word experiment, it is a social experiment they are doing rather than a technical one. They are not testing if the system works.

This social experiment gathers data for the purposes of working out how best to deal with any social resistance to the product.

Bingo. Not to mention if it does get accepted, even on a small level, it will condition kids to accept it as they grow older. If they have it in school and everything seems ok, why not continue to use them outside of school? What about at work? Then when these kids have kids, they can keep tabs on them.

I know much of what we do, where we go, and what we buy, is already tracked in one way or another, but this RFID stuff can take it to a whole different level.

I know it's already been accepted for use in some hospitals, and probably some high security locations as well. This stuff scares the hell out of me. Sure, I have nothing to worry about today- I'm not doing anything wrong. But who's to say what I'm doing today won't be wrong tomorrow? Politics, combined with a little fear and a lot of ignorance(which there's no shortage of today!), can lead to bad, bad things.

Imagine a police state with modern technology...