David
Gutierrez
Natural News
June 17, 2008
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 busʼs current location as
provided by the GPS device.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has
criticized the plan as an invasion of
childrenʼs privacy and a potential risk to
their safety.
"Thereʼs absolutely no need to be
tagging children," said Stephen Brown,
executive director of the ACLUʼs 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 childrenʼs school
experience. For example, parents can already
check on their childrenʼs 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 "itʼs a quantitative leap to
monitor children themselves." He raised the
question of whether unauthorized individuals
could use easily available
RFID
readers to find out studentsʼ 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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