Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:16AM EDT

How would feel about this: Tracking chips in kids' school clothing so that school officials can know their whereabouts during the school day?

Oh, it's happening. Ten students in a secondary school in the United Kingdom are being tracked through RFID implants in their school uniforms in a pilot program. Information Week reports that the kids attend Hungerhill School for ages 11-16 in Edenthorpe, England.

Add the RFID chips to increased video surveillance and fingerprinting of kids, and this is a heavily tracked generation—for safety's sake.

That extra peace of mind for adults comes with a heavy loss of privacy for kids. Do you agree with David Clouter, a parent and founder of the children's advocacy group Leave Them Kids Alone, who says taking all these precautions has the effect of treating kids like criminals? Or do you agree with the parents who have OKed the pilot program who do not find it egregiously intrusive?

One possible side effect: Uniform sales may pick up as kids try to procure extra non-RFID-tagged clothing. As security expert Bruce Schneier writes on his blog: "So now it's easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you're elsewhere."

thats not good i dont think.

I thought it was strange , also

Seems to me that it creates a very slippery slope in terms of civil liberties.

oh they will be planted in the body b4 long

how many liberties will

one give up for a false since of security

i am surprised they have not made the

chip inplant a condition for early release

from prison no chip serve the time

i have a feeling it is not to far off

but hey what do i know

I think this speaks to the bigger issues that we will face in this new century. In the 20th century it was civil rights that was the large legal issue to be decided but I truly feel in this century it will be the extent of civil liberties and privacy.

They will put a chip in my Skin Over my DEAD body..

Worried about RFID

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