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LeKiwi
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 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: U.S. School district to begin microchipping students |
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....here we go....
http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
| Quote: | (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 partnership 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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Charming.
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Anyone else get that cold shiver down their spine? Quite frankly, if I had a kid, I wouldn't want anyone who had the proper equipment to be able to track them... and I'm not going into the whole ethical can of worms...
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| soon they'll be putting them in people.(speculation) |
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psych
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| surely it would be far more reliable to implant the chips inside the children themselves? |
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Apple_in_my_Eye
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | 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. |
Gee, for some reason I doubt this is altrusim. Yet another attempt to soften the public up to RFID chipping people...
"If you don't do anything wrong why are you worried about having a chip implanted in your head?" |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| If they start microchipping people, I'm moving to a less "advanced" country where that won't happen to me. Mexico would take me back. I think. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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And?
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LeKiwi
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| Kauf039 wrote: | | Anyone else get that cold shiver down their spine? Quite frankly, if I had a kid, I wouldn't want anyone who had the proper equipment to be able to track them... and I'm not going into the whole ethical can of worms... |
Amen.
This is just the first step towards chipping the entire nation.
I can't believe they're beginning on the kids, though!!
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That's pretty messed up. If I were in Rhode Island, now would be a good time to look into homeschooling.
| Apple_in_my_Eye wrote: | | "If you don't do anything wrong why are you worried about having a chip implanted in your head?" |
This argument always pisses me off, I've had so many people use it against me to justify why there should be no 4th or 5th Amendment rights and the cops can search your car, your house, wiretap your phone, monitor your internet use, read your mail, etc ad infinitum. No. It is an invasion of privacy and a clear infringement on freedom.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Given how children in the UK are becoming more and more a danger to themselves and others, knowing where they are might be a boon.
Of course, unless you put chips IN them, any child with half a brain will do a Da Vinci code and leave the offending item on a bus, in a lorry, etc etc. Then they will skive off and do wtf they like, as they always will.
This scheme might have benefits when applied to the really young though.. the kind of children that really shouldnt be wandering off.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Now that the children have them, we should all get them. Otherwise that would be discriminating against the children. |
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scarlet52698
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Egads! So glad I homeschool.
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Once again, I must ask, why are you so damn up in arms about this?
This is GREAT news.
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Rainstorm5
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Microchipping students? How stupid. Most kids would just ditch the back pack or switch it with someone else if the were going to do something that the teachers would frown upon. My kids would have dug out the chip and flushed it by the end of the first day. Might as well trap the kids and stick the chip in their brains. Even then, they'd find a way to carve it out.
This country is growing more and more totalitarian by the day.
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