Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped - silicon.com
Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped - silicon.com
A primary school in Wakayama are implementing RFID's that are placed in schoolchildrens bags or clothing to track them and protect them.
One of the readers comments attached to the article is as follows:
"Can you imagine the chaos that could be caused by naughty children swapping schoolbags or items of clothing, or stealing items and then placing them in dangerous locations?"
Which points out just one of the shortcomings of the system... is this yet another 'solution' which doesn't actually address the problem? Surely it will simply create more complications for the school, more admin nightmares etc when the time, energy and money could go into (as another reader points out) educating the children about the dangers that exist.
With this type of 'solution' isn't it a handy way of getting people early and educating them to have very low level expectations about privacy later in life?
Be interesting to see how it pans out.
A primary school in Wakayama are implementing RFID's that are placed in schoolchildrens bags or clothing to track them and protect them.
One of the readers comments attached to the article is as follows:
"Can you imagine the chaos that could be caused by naughty children swapping schoolbags or items of clothing, or stealing items and then placing them in dangerous locations?"
Which points out just one of the shortcomings of the system... is this yet another 'solution' which doesn't actually address the problem? Surely it will simply create more complications for the school, more admin nightmares etc when the time, energy and money could go into (as another reader points out) educating the children about the dangers that exist.
With this type of 'solution' isn't it a handy way of getting people early and educating them to have very low level expectations about privacy later in life?
Be interesting to see how it pans out.
1 Comments:
Absolutely right.
Tagging the clothes, bags or books of kids is useless - they'll just lose these things or have them stolen - tag the kids themselves!
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