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Lauren's mother, Michele, had other concerns, especially when she heard what the badges were supposed to do. A small microchip had been placed inside Lauren's badge so that she could be tracked from classroom to classroom, reporting her attendance to a centralized computer. A special card reader had also been placed over bathroom doors throughout Brittan Elementary School in Sutter, a no-stoplight town located about 50 miles north of Sacramento at the foot of the Sutter Buttes, the smallest mountain range in the world. When Michele Tatro heard school administrators were curious about her daughter's bathroom breaks, "the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Why would they need to know when she came in and out of the bathroom?"
As reported by KTVU, preschoolers in Contra Costa county have been outfitted with these monitoring devices, which transmits a signal to sensors installed throughout their buildings. momentimedia/Flickr Officials told the news station that the devices would help administrators secure the child's whereabouts at all times. Parents will also digitally sign the child in and out of school, thereby eliminating the need for attendance records filed by hand.
* A California school district embedded RFIDs in student IDs without the parents' knowledge, claiming it would ensure that students were accounted for, but the district failed to consider the potential for hacking by a child abductor.
* FasTrak transponders make it quicker to cross Bay Area bridges, but the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released information in messy divorce cases that was used to document when wayward spouses were traveling to places they claimed they weren’t.
* The US and other countries embed RFIDs in passports. In the Netherlands, it took a local TV station only two hours to figure out how to hack a prototype RFID in a Dutch passport. Hackers could access fingerprint, photograph, and other data on the RFID tag, perfect for creating a cloned passport.
Picking bad guys out of a crowd in real time is now a bit easier thanks to facial-recognition technology that leverages computing power, high-speed bandwidth, high-definition cameras and wireless networks. Face First (www.facefirst.com), a product developed by Airborne Biometrics Group of Camarillo, Calif., is used by corporations, government agencies, casinos, transportation companies and other businesses with a need to know when certain individuals are in the area.
When the system finds a match in a database for someone who may be on a watch list, the client may be notified in multiple ways, including text message or e-mail alerts. Biographical information such as criminal records are added and the images and made available to the client from any Web browser, including Web-ready mobile phones. Rosenkrantz said the platform's latest addition enables hand-held digital cameras connected to Wi-Fi networks to scan images live. The system uses geographic coordinates to pinpoint the location of the camera that spotted the person in question, which helps track the subject's movements.
I can assure you that cannot force you to have a chip lol.
Originally posted by hyperrman
We don't want to chip them...but...
My girlfriend and I took our kids to the park recently and we noticed something that caused us to pay extra special attention to the school aged kids for quite some time.
While we were feeding our kids their little picnic lunch we counted the number of kids who were busy "texting". Out of 122 kids that we were able to keep count of, we noticed 112 of them pulled a cell phone out of their pockets at least once to do "something". It looked like they were sending text messages, but we didn't inquire and therefore cannot say accurately what they actually did. However, the point here is simple. We don't need to micro-chip the kids. They've got a ton of "tracking software" already on them.
This wasn't exactly a scientific study or anything. We only watched the crowd for about 30 minutes and it just seemed crazy to us that "that many" kids had cell phones. Once I read your post, it dawned on me. We can resist the chips as long as we want. However, I know from my military background, you can triangulate a cell phone's position down to a few feet. If the phone is on the child's person, you've got the position of the child as well.
Good or bad, just thought I would mention this.
The logistics involved in constantly tracking every citizen in a town or city would be huge. Being able to tell where someone is tells you nothing except where that person is at the time you check. That alone cant justify RFID surely.
Isn't that what the "Smart cards" are all about? And most people usually have some of these things on them at all times.
Originally posted by NightGypsy
reply to post by Alethea
Isn't that what the "Smart cards" are all about? And most people usually have some of these things on them at all times.
No doubt. I mentioned somewhere in my OP that a multitude of things are being microchipped. Frankly, how do we even know they AREN'T already implanted in our bodies? Just sayin....
Originally posted by Segador
Originally posted by NightGypsy
reply to post by Alethea
Isn't that what the "Smart cards" are all about? And most people usually have some of these things on them at all times.
No doubt. I mentioned somewhere in my OP that a multitude of things are being microchipped. Frankly, how do we even know they AREN'T already implanted in our bodies? Just sayin....
You can try metal detector
Originally posted by NightGypsy
. Regardless of what WE agree to, they'll find some way to tag us with this chip.