Texan Student loses Federal Court case over RFID Chips

[Zipzopdippidybopbop]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957587

"A Texan student who refused to wear a badge with a radio tag that tracked her movements has lost a federal court appeal against her school's ID policy."

Sounds awfully Orwellian to me. Thoughts?

[YuriVII]

The law is the law and the law is ed. I think soon people will forget what it actually meant to be free. The millenials were the last ones to know what it was like to be a kid. Now they brand and tag them like cattle. We will raise cows, not men.

[Ummagumma]

RF chips.. instead of signing a register? That is probably not quite the dystopic system it appears to be. Particularly with various facebook systems, foursquare - all the demographic tracking (geosocial) systems already monitoring everything you don't deactivate from default settings, it is hardly a further breech of privacy. It does, though, seem to be a bit either 'technology for technology's sake', or just plain lazy.

What is wrong with a register?
Are they expecting student abductions? (j/k)

[Matthias]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957587

"A Texan student who refused to wear a badge with a radio tag that tracked her movements has lost a federal court appeal against her school's ID policy."

Sounds awfully Orwellian to me. Thoughts?

Nothing Orwellian about it. The girl thought it was the sign of the beast. That was the basis for her fear, which makes more sense than fearing an Orwellian government will somehow use knowing whether she attended school or not to do... something.

I'm pretty sick of all these paranoid and fearful doomsdayers constantly freaking out at their own shadows. Not surprising she is thinking in terms of the sign of the beast. It would take someone like a religious fanatic to be so irrational and ignorant, so fearful and paranoid.

[yuezhi]

orwellian?

sounds more like the stereotypical texas we know and love so much
or she's just a delinquent with some stupid excuse.

[Celsius]

Just looks like an easier way to see if students are at school and keep track of attendance. Not everything has to be a conspiracy for some back room CIA operation.

[Sphere]

Note to self:

Don't use the Book of Revelations as a legal defense.

[frozenprince]

Note to self:

Don't use the Book of Revelations as a legal defense.

Corinthians is the obvious choice.

[DarthShizNit]

Corinthians is the obvious choice.

1st or 2nd?

[priam11]

Mark of the Beast? Sounds like someone we should be keeping tabs on.....

[Blau&Gruen]

Badge? With GPS?

Besides, I guess it is always a good idea to go to School, so you won't miss a chance to learn something.

[Gaidin]

Badge? With GPS?
Besides, I guess it is always a good idea to go to School, so you won't miss a chance to learn something.

The idea of putting the concept of RFID in the same sentence as GPS is hilarious. But that's technical. They can hardly actually track the students with this past 'yea they showed up today' unless they spend more money on the system than a school district would typically be willing or able to do.

[Zipzopdippidybopbop]

Interesting viewpoints so far.

I dunno though; the idea of having someone know your constant whereabouts is just reminiscent of 1984 - Big Brother is watching you etc..

When I used to smoke I would enjoy one in the school toilets with friends; as we're not allowed here in schools. For someone to know exactly which cubicle your in, alongside your whereabouts in the cafeteria etc.... Eugh. It's just unnerving - the idea of being under perpetual surveillance in a large area.

[Caelifer_1991]

Tbh, I wouldn't wear a tag like that either, I'd consider it an unwarrented invasion of my privacy - all while having every intention to attend fully anyway. They should stick with simple registers.

[xcorps]

Today's court ruling affirms NISD's position that we did make reasonable accommodation to the student by offering to remove the RFID chip from the student's smart ID badge," the district said in a statement.

That pretty much kills it. Nothing really for the student to complain about.

[Admiral Piett]

I ing hated wearing ID badges, for what it's worth. Every day that you forgot it, you'd be fined $10.

[Col. Tartleton]

"You Commies may all go to hell, and I will go to Russia." - David Krivkov, American Folk Hero, Siberian Frontiersman, Soldier, and Politician

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[LSJ]

The badges reveal each student's location on their campus, giving the district more precise information on attendance.

The daily average of the attendance is related to how much funding each school receives.

Haven't they discovered "Say 'here' when I call your name", or is that solution too high-tech for these schools?

[I WUB PUGS]

Haven't they discovered "Say 'here' when I call your name", or is that solution too high-tech for these schools?

Have you been to Texas?

[Emperor Arcturus Mengsk]

Well. They could just put a guy in the gate with a computer that checks you in an electronic register. . . .

or even add fingerprint scanners at the gate if they want to register attendance using technology lol....

Do they really have to track your exact location on the map? At all times? Really?! blergh.

-.-

Although I guess someone with a few hacking skills and a murderous character can use that to his advantage to track more people down on his I-Pod and kill more before stopped!

Can't really hide anymore!!!