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Parents in a uproar over tracking chip
Parents of children attending the Brittan Elementary school in California were in an uproar when they found out their children were being used as part of an RFID tracking test being carried out by a local company.
The test had been set up in the summer of last year when the principal of the school and the superintendent of the district were approached by InCom. In return for allowing the company to try out the tagging system on the children, InCom promised to give the school "a couple of thousand dollars," royalties on future sales, and no charges for leaving the system in place. The parents only learned of the trial after the kids had been tagged and came home wearing ID badges containing the chips.
The initiative has been met with anger from parents who do not wish their children to be used as guinea pigs or to be tracked in any way. Speaking on behalf of the school, its lawyer, Paul Nicholas Boylan, stated that the response from parents came as a shock, especially since the school district feels that it gave the parents plenty of notice (though whether RFIDs were mentioned is unclear); he puts it down to RFID technology being new and untested.
The system in use at the school is called InClass RFID, created by InCom, a company formed by two high-school teachers from Sutters, California. InClass RFID is designed to track attendance (something California bases school aid upon) and alert adminstrators to strangers. It consists of a photo ID card with an embedded RFID tag that has a unique 15-digit code and a number of door scanners around the school that relay information back to a central server, which then relays attendance lists to handhelds the individual teachers carry so they can verify attendance. So far InCom has not commented on this matter.
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interesting, i wouldnt want to be tracked. Its kinda stupid not requesting permission fromt he parents first.
anyways do you have a source
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