Hey! We OWN that cattle.
We'll chip them and not their bags next.
The ACLU has 'criticized', eh?
This org has got to be the EPITOME of controlled-opposition.
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http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
Monday, June 16, 2008 by: David Gutierrez | Key concepts: microchipping,
parents and RFID
(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 partner****p 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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