We Get It - Parent's don't like RFID On Kids
Wired News: School RFID Plan Gets an F - of the ten odd articles, Wired had the best title. If you haven’t heard already:
“Parents of elementary and middle school students in a small California town are protesting a tracking program their school recently launched, which requires students to wear identification badges embedded with radio frequency, or RFID, chips.”
The rest of the articles are formulaic. “We don’t want our children tracked.”
“The system consists of a photo ID card affixed to a lanyard and worn around the neck. Embedded in the card is an RFID chip that contains a 15-digit number assigned to each student. As students pass beneath a doorway scanner on their way into a classroom, the scanner records the number and sends it to a server in the school’s administrative office. The server translates the digits into names and sends an attendance list to the teacher’s PDA, identifying all of the students who walked through the door. The teacher then visually verifies that the names on the PDA list match the students in the classroom.”
This isn’t the first or the last time you’ll see a system like this. The line between access control and asset tracking is blurring substantially. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/cr80news-4.gif)
