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Advocacy Groups Weigh In on Kid-in-School Tagging

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 in News

Just yesterday mainstream media started churning out the second-day news about RFID chips being embedded in kids’ uniforms at the Hungerhill School in Europe.

Here’s some feedback from online advocacy machine Leave Them Kids Alone:

Fingerprinting is being introduced in thousands of U., schools as part of subsidised library, catering and/or registration packages they have purchased, strongly encouraged by central government, according to a number of This is always done without explicit parental consent, even in many cases, without parental knowledge.

Or, as security blogger Bruce Schneider puts it:

So now it’s easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you’re elsewhere.

Stay tuned for more feedback from the masses! [end] 

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