Students ordered to wear tracking tags

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Students ordered to wear tracking tags

MSNBC, Feb. 9, 2005

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6942751/

The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio

frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents

are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy. InCom has paid the

school several thousand dollars for agreeing to the experiment, and has promised

a royalty from each sale if the system takes off, said the company's co-founder,

Dobson, who works as a technology specialist in the town's high school.

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>Students ordered to wear tracking tags

>MSNBC, Feb. 9, 2005

>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6942751/

>

>The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio

frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents

are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy. InCom has paid the

school several thousand dollars for agreeing to the experiment, and has promised

a royalty from each sale if the system takes off, said the company's co-founder,

Dobson, who works as a technology specialist in the town's high school.

>

I wonder how much power these devices output. Health may be another

concern to wearing tracking tags, especially if they are " on " all the time.

Deanna

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Message: 65020 From: Deanna Received: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:18 AM

Subject: Re: Students ordered to wear tracking tags

>> Students ordered to wear tracking tags

> I wonder how much power these devices output. Health may be another

> concern to wearing tracking tags, especially if they are " on " all the time.

> Deanna

From what I understood, the tags are passive, and the students

aren't continuously tracked. Classrooms equipped with special

devices can log attendance as the student passes through

the door, at least in this particular case.

Darrell

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This is kind of old news. The program was dropped by the company

testing the tags.

See http://www.appeal-democrat.com/community/beyondnews/badges/badge5.txt

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