School attendance tracked by RFID
April 30, 2005
WIRED -- Brittan Elementary School in Sutter, California, has received national attention for trying to launch an RFID program in January to track students without properly notifying parents or students. The school wanted to require students to wear photo ID cards embedded with an RFID chip containing a 15-digit number assigned to each student to track attendance. Acrroding to Wired, the school cut a deal with a local maker of the technology to test the tracking system and receive a percentage of profits if the company succeeded in selling the system to other school districts. But after a group of outraged parents protested the plan, the school dropped it. But California lawmakers picked up on the story, and the incident sparked a discussion in the California State legislature about using electronic tagging.
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