Category Archives: RFID school

“We don’t think kids in schools should be treated like cattle”

Posted on September 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

From fellow blogger Lucas 2012 Info – “We don’t think kids in schools should be treated like cattle,” Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said in a telephone interview. “We generally don’t like it. My take on RFID is it’s fine for products, but not so much for people. That’s one of the places where the lines need to be drawn. ”

The introduction of RFID chips in some Texas high schools has caused controvisy and debate.  The students are against it and are opposing the intrusive nature of this technology.

Uploaded by WearechangeTHC (Texas Hill County)

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Position Paper on the use of RFID in Schools

Posted on September 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

From the Spychips website a ‘Position Paper on the use of RFID in Schools’ issued by

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN)
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

“Children should never be used as test subjects for technology, no matter what their socio-economic status.”

“[RFID]…could dissuade individuals from exercising their rights to freedom of thought, speech and association.”

Endorsers and Signers:  (Details of organisations and contacts at the end of the document)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frountier Foundation (EFF), Big Brother Awards Germany, Big Brother Watch, Citizen’s Council for Health Freedom, Constitutional Alliance, Freedom Force International, Friends of Privacy USA, The Identity Project, OK-SAFE Inc., Privacy Activism, Private Citizen Inc., Best the Chip, We The People Will Not Be Chipped, 511 Campaign Edward Hasbrouck Authot, Privacy Expert, Katina Michael. Ph.D.Implant Expert, MG Michael. Ph.D., Implant Researcher, Judith McGeary, Liberty Activist,  Virginia Rezmiersky Ph.D., Claire Wolfey; Author, Freedom Advocate.

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43,000 Brazilian children to use RFID locators in T-shirts by 2013

Posted on September 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

In March 2012 students in northeastern Brazil, Vitoria da Conquista, now wear RFID locator chips embedded in their T-shirts the Huffington Post reports.  The RFID chip is designed to withstand washing and ironing and  it has a  “security system that makes tampering virtually impossible.”  Phew, thank goodness for that!

“Twenty thousand students in 25 of Vitoria da Conquista’s 213 public schools started using T-shirts with chips earlier this week.  By 2013, all of the city’s 43,000 public school students, aged 4 to 14, will be using the chip-embedded T-shirts.”

How apt that the chips are placed underneath each school’s coat-of-arms or on one of the sleeves below a phrase that says:

“Education does not transform the world.
Education changes people and people transform the world.”

Indeed, but quite in what way does education change the world after students have been tracked like this in their ‘education’ is the question.

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Students rebel against RFID

Posted on August 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

No sooner as I start this blog this article crops up ‘Students rally against tracking system‘.

“Students and parents are rallying against new ID badges that track student movement on the campuses of two San Antonio, Texas schools.”

Katheryn Albretch, from Spychips, is lending her weight to the support.

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Introduction

Posted on August 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

This site was set up to log the rise of RFID in schools.  This blog is being written from the UK but will detail the use of children and RFID across the world.

An estimated 4.5 million children in the UK use their biometrics in schools for food, library books, attendance, lockers, etc.  The practice of school children using biometrics started in the UK in 2001.   The first country in the world to use biometrics in schools.  Schools were taking and processing children’s biometrics without gaining consent from parents and in many cases not informing parents that biometric systems were in place in the school.

In the UK in May 2012 the Protection of Freedom Act, clauses 26-28, was passed requiring a school that used a biometric system to inform both parents and to gain the consent of at least one parents in order to take and process a childs biometrics.

This legislation comes into effect September 2013.

With the possibility that schools may now opt out of using biometrics for other registering technology the use of Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, seems to be the emerging technology.

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