Middle School and High School Kids forced to wear RFID Tracking Chips

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The new identification tags are designed to help the district improve safety by locating students at any time, while on campus, at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School.

RFID tags are also supposed to help with attendance by counting students more accurately as they enter the building.

District spokesman Pasqual Gonzalez says the two campuses have a high rate of truancy and tardiness, and the district could gain $2 million in state funding by improving attendance at the schools.
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inb4 "If they're not doing anything wrong then they have nothing to hide"...
 


You have got to be fucking kidding me. Seriously everyone in the US i wish you the best of luck.
 
I have no problem with it. It's not as if they are implanting a chip under their skin. It's an ID card, and the readers are only in the school. Big whoop. Who cares if the school has a record that your precious snowflake walked through the front door of the school at 7:48AM on some random Tuesday? How is this any different than an employee having a coded ID card that unlocks the door to an office building?

Everything else about invasion of privacy here is FUD. RFID is not inherently evil. For a bunch of people who make a living online, you are sure paranoid about technology.
 
It's optional here.
It's optional there.
Soon everyone will have one.
Then it will be mandatory.
Everyone already has one.
Who would complain?
 
liams said:
Everything else about invasion of privacy here is FUD. RFID is not inherently evil. For a bunch of people who make a living online, you are sure paranoid about technology.
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You'll change your mind when someone tracks you home using it, figures out which bedroom window is yours with it, how often you get up to pee, and when the best time is to step out from the closet with duct tape stretched out.
 
Reading a bit on RFID chips, you don't get much more than 5ft range, 10ft tops with top of the line equipment. So it's not a step by step gps type tracking. Not as bad as I thought but still makes me weary.
 
liams said:
I have no problem with it. It's not as if they are implanting a chip under their skin. It's an ID card, and the readers are only in the school. Big whoop. Who cares if the school has a record that your precious snowflake walked through the front door of the school at 7:48AM on some random Tuesday? How is this any different than an employee having a coded ID card that unlocks the door to an office building?

Everything else about invasion of privacy here is FUD. RFID is not inherently evil. For a bunch of people who make a living online, you are sure paranoid about technology.
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You do understand that truancy laws are just another way to get innocent people (in this case, children) arrested and sent to private prison systems so the state can cash in on them as cheap labor, don't you?
 
Napolean said:
You do understand that truancy laws are just another way to get innocent people (in this case, children) arrested and sent to private prison systems so the state can cash in on them as cheap labor, don't you?
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u do understand that cheap labor comes with room and board, food, meals, electricity, water, security supervision and real estate space that a molester could be occupying...dont you?
 
SkyFire said:
You'll change your mind when someone tracks you home using it, figures out which bedroom window is yours with it, how often you get up to pee, and when the best time is to step out from the closet with duct tape stretched out.
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Given the 4 to 5 foot range of an RFID signal, I think I'd notice somebody following me home.
 
nickCR said:
Reading a bit on RFID chips, you don't get much more than 5ft range, 10ft tops with top of the line equipment. So it's not a step by step gps type tracking. Not as bad as I thought but still makes me weary.
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Bullshit. At Defcon 60 some feet was the longest with standard readers. You can triangulate as well.

I missed this talk (didn't go to blackhat) but the PDF is here: http://www.tombom.co.uk/extreme_rfid.pdf

"Without amplifying the signal from a commercial reader I was able to equal the previous Defcon record of 69 feet, and with less than $1000 of equipment I achieved considerably further than that." The further was over 500 ft.

liams said:
Given the 4 to 5 foot range of an RFID signal, I think I'd notice somebody following me home.
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Clever, for an idiot.

How is it not obvious,using basic logic, that something that can be detected from a short distance, can be detected from a longer distance? Did all of you go to public school in america?
 
nickCR said:
Problem is these are stepping stones man. This is just the start.
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Seriously.

Start tracking kids, sugar coat it by saying it'll only "stay in the schools" and that "with good attendance, we'll get grants" or some crap like that and people are okay with incorporating it into their everyday lives.

If kids are used to being tracked, they'll have no problems being tracked when they're grown up.
 
It's only a matter of time... I think the due date was 3/2013 was it not? Read the obama health plan... He was talking about mandatory RFID chips in all people by this date. Won't happen on this end though, I can assure you of that much. If my profile goes inactive after this 3/13 date, you will all know why :-p
 
I would complain about this, but in some aspects if this doesnt happen with chips and schools, someone will find a way to track you down via your cellphone where you are and where you go.

Complaining about this and making this go away, doesn't stop the other ways people can track you. Trust me, if someone wants your ass, they gonna get your ass with the cellphones these kids have in their pockets already.
 
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