it is voluntary to give your social security number to every one and their
brother. Yeah, its voluntary, sure... you dont really need a bank account,
college or medical insurance do you?
hmm hmm
Dana
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60965,00.html
Angel Stewart writes:
> "Stillman has gone whole-hog for radio-frequency technology, which his
> 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."
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60898,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_
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