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November 07, 2007RFID in School Uniforms?There's a good, long comment thread on Bruce Schneier's blog about a UK school using RFID to detect absences. The original news story is here, which includes some interesting student comments. Kids are less trustworthy, I think, and grow into less trustworthy adults, the less they're trusted. RFID in uniforms seems likely to me to result in them being less mature and spending more time in jail. And, as people on the Schneier thread suggest, this is a false savings - the time taking roll is pretty small and helps teachers remember which student is which. Just about any problem can easily be made worse with badly thought-out technological fixes - see evote. What I really don't understand is adults like Tommy Thompson who've volunteered to be RFID-chipped. Any thoughts? Posted by Jon Kay at November 7, 2007 03:14 PMComments
I agree with you. What's next, a chip that can smell pot or pick up proximate cell phone activity? We'll just create a generation that's spending all it's time trying to escape the box. I think monitoring could be helpful in cases of child abuse or a proven track record of untrustworthiness. Posted by: Maxtrue at November 8, 2007 07:53 PM |
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