Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Monday, February 14, 2005

Zeroing In on the Kids

Fellow Liberal Coalition members John at Archy and athenae at First Draft have details about a southern California grade school requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. What's more, the system was imposed without any parental input! The thing that creeped me out the most was the revelation that "similar devices are being tested at several schools in Japan," where parents are apparently not objecting. Must be a cultural difference... To learn more about the insidiousness of RFIDs, go here.

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