(NATURALNEWS)
A Rhode
Island
school
district has
announced a
pilot
program to
monitor
student
movements by
means of
radio
frequency
identification
(RFID) chips
implanted in
their
schoolbags.
The
Middletown
School
District, in
partnership
with MAP
Information
Technology
Corp., has
launched a
pilot
program to
implant RFID
chips into
the
schoolbags
of 80
children at
the
Aquidneck
School. Each
chip would
be
programmed
with a
student
identification
number, and
would be
read by an
external
device
installed in
one of two
school
buses. The
buses would
also be
fitted with
global
positioning
system (GPS)
devices.
Parents or
school
officials
could log
onto a
school web
site to see
whether and
when
specific
children had
entered or
exited which
bus, and to
look up the
bus's
current
location as
provided by
the GPS
device.
The American
Civil
Liberties
Union (ACLU)
has
criticized
the plan as
an invasion
of
children's
privacy and
a potential
risk to
their
safety.
"There's
absolutely
no need to
be tagging
children,"
said Stephen
Brown,
executive
director of
the ACLU's
Rhode Island
chapter.
According to
Brown, the
school
district
should
already know
where its
students
are.
"[This
program is]
a solution
in search of
a problem,"
Brown said.
The school
district
says that
its current
plan is no
different
than other
programs
already in
place for
parents to
monitor
their
children's
school
experience.
For example,
parents can
already
check on
their
children's
attendance
records and
what they
have for
lunch, said
district
Superintendent
Rosemary
Kraeger.
Brown
disputed
this
argument.
The school
is perfectly
entitled to
track its
buses, he
said, but
"it's a
quantitative
leap to
monitor
children
themselves."
He raised
the question
of whether
unauthorized
individuals
could use
easily
available
RFID readers
to find out
students'
private
information
and monitor
their
movements.
Because the
pilot
program is
being
provided to
the school
district at
no cost, it
did not
require
approval
from the
Rhode Island
ethics
commission.
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U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
BY DAVID GUTIERREZ
NaturalNews, June 16, 2008Category: Microchipping of the Population
Published here: Wednesday, July 02, 2008, 05:01 AM
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 05:34 AM
RFID Chip
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
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