Brazilian Schoolchildren Tagged By Computer Chips 288
New submitter smi.james.th writes with an AP story, and extracts from it: "'Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with computer chips that alert parents if they are cutting classes, the city's education secretary, Coriolano Moraes, said Thursday.' Personally I don't find this too inspiring. Mr. Orwell certainly has warned the world about this."
Re:Oh the possibilities (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, 'cause predatory paedophiles will have such a hard time finding kids otherwise, right?
Orwellian fears are killing people..... (Score:4, Interesting)
I get a SMS if my car moves 2ft when I'm not in it. My 3 yellow labs all have id chips as well as GPS trackers. My laptop and phone have "find me" features so I don't loose my precious terminal.
However your kids, your husband, wife, parents run around in complete secrecy under the guise of "privacy"
When people aren't looking, people do HORRIBLE THINGS. When teachers aren't looking kids do screwed up things, uncles "touch" and ask to not "tell", priests take advantage, people have strokes on hiking trips, pass out in bars.
I should not only know where my most precious humans are, but I should know they are safe, conscious and alive.
Sex trafficking, kidnapping, dump luck kill, wounds and mentally damages the brother and sisters and wives and husbands of all of us, and we sit around saying " oh it's totally worth it, because "privacy" is so critical.
I grew up in a town with a secret gov facility. We were all under constant surveillance We all knew it.
If sunlight or starlight can touch you, so can anyone who wants to. Anyone who thinks differently is kidding themselves.
It's time we get over that book and start taking care of our loved ones.
It MUST be transparent. It MUST have watchers watching watchers watching watchers. It MUST be optional.
and we MUST stop losing humans like car keys.