Advocacy Groups Weigh In on Kid-in-School Tagging
07 November, 2007
category: Biometrics, RFID
Just yesterday mainstream media started churning out the second-day news about RFID chips being embedded in kids’ uniforms at the Hungerhill School in Europe.
Here’s some feedback from online advocacy machine Leave Them Kids Alone:
“Fingerprinting is being introduced in thousands of U., schools as part of subsidised library, catering and/or registration packages they have purchased, strongly encouraged by central government, according to a number of This is always done without explicit parental consent, even in many cases, without parental knowledge.“
Or, as security blogger Bruce Schneider puts it:
“So now it’s easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you’re elsewhere.“
Stay tuned for more feedback from the masses!