Reading, Writing, RFID 650
supabeast! writes "Wired has a story about a public charter school in Buffalo that now tracks student attendence with mandatory RFID tags. The school's director said 'All this relates to safety and keeping track of kids...Eventually it will become a monitoring tool for us..' In the future the system will expand to '...track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office...punctuality...and to verify the time [students] get on and off school buses.' I think that we can all stop calling the privacy advocates paranoid now."
Oh no... (Score:5, Funny)
Workaround: (Score:5, Funny)
Thus: false sense of security.
-l
Maybe you can... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to continue doing so until they can find an effective way to keep tabs on me...
just leave the rfid tag in your desk. (Score:1, Funny)
Not the eyes (Score:5, Funny)
I can't wait to walk into the GAP, so they can read my RFID tag and announce to everybody around that I recently purchased an unusually large amount of womens' underwear.
Needs some improvements (Score:5, Funny)
For example, we could remotely help them with their homework, automatically remove them from dangerous situations, make them do funny dances and speak with foreign accents, as well as invade neighboring countries, all with the push of a button.
Here's to the future.
Re:full story (Score:1, Funny)
It's whitespace. You can borrow some.
Pink says: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Workaround workaround (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Security cameras... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oh no... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:School budgets? (Score:5, Funny)
"We now know exactly where all of our students are."
"That's really wonderful... uh... now what do we do with them?"
Re:Easy to tell (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Easy to tell (Score:5, Funny)
*Suzie blushes*
*Dave's friends start giving him high-fives*
Re:How does this violate a right? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And the problem is???? (Score:3, Funny)
If you think the US is run by people under 30, maybe it's time you dipped your head in some smart juice.
Bowel Movement Monitoring (Score:2, Funny)