Category Archives: Tracking children

Refusal to wear RFID tag at school

Posted on September 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

From Wired.com  –  “Just as the U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates Radio Frequency Identification Device chips to monitor livestock, a Texas school district just begun implanting the devices on student identification cards to monitor pupils’ movements on campus, and to track them as they come and go from school.

Tagging school children with RFID chips is uncommon, but not new. A federally funded preschool in Richmond, California, began embedding RFID chips in students’ clothing in 2010. And an elementary school outside of Sacramento, California, scrubbed a plan in 2005 amid a parental uproar. And a Houston, Texas, school district began using the chips to monitor students on 13 campuses in 2004.”

This RFID tagging of humans is not resting well with some families. Here on The Alex Jones Channel  –  “Steve and Andrea Hernandez of Spychips.com who talk with Alex in-studio about San Antonio area High School honor student who has refused to wear a school mandated RFID tracking beacon around her neck because doing so conflicts with her religious beliefs.”

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“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.

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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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SA hospital considering RFID tagging babies

Posted on August 31, 2012 | Leave a comment

This from Engineering News reporting that a private South African hospital is considering RFID tags for newborn babies.

“Securing a newborn with an ankle bracelet and ensuring that all authorised personnel transporting newborns carry tags will enable hospitals to monitor the movement of the babies at all times and put parents at ease, he explains.

“Newborns have been stolen from South African hospitals before. RFID tracking could help in curbing the incidents where newborns are smuggled out of hospitals. “We hope to also offer this product to public hospitals in the future,” says Baetu.”

One would presume then that the case for RFID tagging babies in South Africa must be strong then with high instances of baby snatching.  However, if this is the case then these baby stealing cases are not reported.

I found no instance of newborn baby stealing in South Africa in a normal Google search, or news search on the first 10 pages so I then spent some considerable time in Google news archive to find one article from 2008.

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