year-old Enterprise Charter School started using last month to record
the time of day students arrive in the morning. In the next months, he
plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records,
cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office. Eventually he'd
like to expand the system to track students' punctuality (or lack
thereof) for every class and to verify the time they get on and off
school buses.
"That way, we could confirm that Johnny Jones got off at Oak and Hurtle
at 3:22," Stillman said. "All this relates to safety and keeping track
of kids.... Eventually it will become a monitoring tool for us."
"The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times
incorporate the same Texas Instruments smart labels used in the
wristbands worn by inmates at the Pima County jail in Texas"
" said Richard Smith, an Internet privacy and security consultant. "My
main concern is that once we start carrying around RFID-tagged items on
our person such as access cards, cell phones, loyalty cards, clothing,
etc., we can be tracked without our knowledge or permission by a network
of RFID readers attached to the Internet."
""Insecure location-tracking technologies raise the further question of
who is tracking, as well as who has access to any tracking records kept
by the system."
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