If I had a child in this school system I'd be screaming bloody murder about this, before yanking my child out of the local public school:
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U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
by David Gutierrez
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.
U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
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It looks like MAP Information Technology Corp. had a successful marketing campaign in this school district and I hope this company is stopped before it spreads its invasive, Big Brother-ish technology elsewhere. This is horrifying.
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