U.S. School Kids Already Being Tracked with RFID Chips, Plus More Technology News

Several states in the U.S. have already passed legislation that prohibits the government from forcing their population to be implanted with the infamous RFID chip. Lucky for me, California is one of them. Despite this, however, it appears the government intends on pursuing this endeavor until the end of time. The way it's beginning to look, we're gonna get microchipped...even if it means without our knowledge.

Today, I happened upon some articles and websites regarding the advanced technologies being developed for surveillance purposes, as well as some news reports I was completely unaware of that reveal how some schools have already begun tracking students, some as young as preschool age, with RFID chips. Also in my Internet travels, I came upon some technology news in the area of surveillance of the population that, in my mind, raises some questions.

Here's what I have. This first story may be old news, but I'll post it for chronological purposes and to refresh some memories.

In 2005, a school in Sutter County, California, placed RFID microchips in student I.D. badges WITHOUT informing parents. The students faced SUSPENSION if they did not wear the badges. Once parents became aware of this and the ensuing backlash hit the media, the school dropped the RFID program.

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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?"

Five years later, we're seeing schools persisting in their efforts to microchip our kids. In Contra Costa County, California, this year, jerseys fitted with RFID microchips were issued to PRESCHOOLERS. They claim this action will keep kids safe by tracking their whereabouts on the school grounds and that it will cut costs and time by eliminating unnecessary paperwork. It will be interesting to see how the parents respond to this situation after living with it for a while.

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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.

Surprisingly, in 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger VETOED proposed legislation (SB 29) that would require schools to notify parents if they intended on issuing students anything equipped with RFID tracking technology. Though this technology is touted by those in the industry as being the most difficult to hack for the purposes of acquiring personal information, the following article shows this is not always the case:

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* 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.

Here is another report about some Texas schools that have implemented RFID tracking devices to monitor the activities of students:

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Actually, these stories can be found all over the Internet now. So my question is, what is the real motivation for wanting to microchip our kids at school? For centuries we've handled our school kids without this "advanced technology," so why are we seeing such a push? Microchipping preschoolers to monitor their whereabouts at school? REALLY? I'd be curious to see some stats on just how many preschoolers come up missing right from under the noses of preschool staff. Are we seeing a rise in abductions of preschool-aged kids from these facilities that warrants this kind of expenditure in an economy like this? I'm guessing the answer would be a resounding "NO."

I am of the belief that this is a tactic being used to get kids accustomed to being surveilled regularly. It also serves to condition them to feel like cattle as opposed to a significant, unique human being with endless potential. These acts may seem small and harmless at this point, but down the road, I believe a generation of microchipped, constantly surveilled young people will feel and act like they are just a number--just a tool used to fulfill the goals of people who have deemed themselves to be superior and more important than everyone else. This is exactly the concern that has been expressed by numerous psychologists who are opposed to microchipping of children and adults. Some experts say one can experience changes in their personality he/she is aware of the fact they are under constant surveillance.

On another note, during a discussion a few months ago on ATS regarding microchipping, a member told of how his household pets who had microchip implants had experienced medical conditions at the site of the implant. He said one of his pets was, in fact, diagnosed with cancer and passed away as a result. His veterinarian, who was upset over the situation, conducted tests at his own expense in an attempt to get to the bottom of it and drew the conclusion that the RFID chip was likely the cause of the cancer.

And this seems to be a fact that is not widely disputed, even in the MSM:

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We are on the fast track to Microchip City, people. According to several articles at rfidnews.org, they're microchipping everything from surgery sponges to shoes these days. If you think there will never come a day when the government will try to force us to accept RFID chip implants into our bodies, then ask yourself why some state representatives have already ensured there is legislation in place to prevent that circumstance? Isn't it fair to assume they may have been given some indications that these were future possibilities if they went to such lengths as to ensure there were laws to stop it?

In addition to the RFID push, facial recognition technology seems to be a priority with government these days. While I realize it was only a matter of time before we started seeing these advancements, I am always left with questions when I hear what they will be used for. In this case, here's a rundown of the uses for the facial recognition technology:

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.

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This technology will nab the "bad guys" all right. I just wonder who these "bad guys" will ultimately be because when I look at this, given the expense of this type of technology, it doesn't seem to be the kind of thing that would be used by one particular agency on a regular basis. I mean, aside from undercover surveillance operations that more often than not wind up being executed while a suspect is mobile in a vehicle, how routine is it for an agency to be monitoring a large venue or large congregation of people for one bad guy--especially someone considered a full-blown terrorist? If you watch movies a lot, you get the impression it's a daily occurrence for most cops. This is not reality, though. It can recognize those on a "watch list?" I bet it can! And I wonder what the title of this "watch list" might be? "Suspected Government Dissidents?" "Potential Domestic Terrorists?" You get my drift...

Also, for FYI purposes, here's some technology facts relating to a variety of countries including the UK, the U.S., and several others.

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Most people here on ATS are hip to all these new technologies, but I find it a little disturbing that there is such a lack of info in the mainstream about what technologies are being implemented, yet these advancements are being imposed upon us at lightening speed, it seems. TPTB will not be happy until the population is corralled and branded like a bunch of cows on a dairy farm.

I can assure you that cannot force you to have a chip lol.

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I can assure you that cannot force you to have a chip lol.

You can? That's great. Hold that thought for now and then we'll discuss this again in a few years and see if your "lol" was premature or not.

They can't force us to be microchipped at the moment in certain regions, but if you've been monitoring the legislation and the senate hearings, especially those since "Obamacare" came into existence, you will see that this seems to be an underlying goal of those in power. If we don't watch this situation closely, the word "voluntary" will eventually morph into "mandatory."

The whole security excuse falls on its head for a start. If some one abducted a student for example. They would only have to leave the device within the school. As for tracking student movements, how hard can it be. There either in class like they're supposed to be or not. Are people really getting that lazy. Even if they are in the bathroom when they're not supposed to be. They'd still have to send someone to find out why.

It Big Brother gone crazy again. For this to be viable. The chips would have to be implanted in the child permanently. Nobody in their right mind is going to agree to this. So its all pointless really.

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.

People are going crazy i tells thee.

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I will happily talk to you about it in a few years. It won't happen. Were forcing all of you to have a chip that you don't want. The world says, no you f*ing ain't I'd like to seeyou try. Im pretty sure we would all get together and say we will fight you if we have to. You think the government will get the army in and hold us at gunpoint and force us? no they wouldn't. Im pretty sure the majority of the world will be against it.

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.

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I agree with you in principal, but you would still have to verify that the person you think has the device, is the one actually using it.

Just a thought.

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.

I agree wholeheartedly, It seems like only a few years ago when I was in grade school and that was where we didn't need cellphones for entertainment we had toys and our imagination. But going onto topic I feel as if this country's citizens are slowly losing their rights but will simply stand by idly as long as the words "Protection" and "Safe" are in the sentence, we need to start realizing that we can't always ensure our 'safety' with the Government sometimes you need to take things into your own hands when it concerns your children.

When I was younger my mother simply told me the "Don't Talk to Strangers" rule due to us living in a high crime area at the time that had seen it's share of deaths by gangs and drug dealing.

And how do you know they are not already embedded in your drivers license, credit cards, subway and transit passes, etc?

Isn't that what the "Smart cards" are all about? And most people usually have some of these things on them at all times.

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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.

I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who thought this was an endeavor that would be doomed from the start. Even though I believe some lunatics in power may be of the belief that this is a task that can be accomplished, they are certainly out of their minds. Much like many other rumored "projects" they supposedly are busy working on. Our government couldn't even account for the disappearance of over three trillion dollars, yet we're to presume they will eventually microchip everyone and monitor our movements indefinitely with any level of competence? Not likely...but I have a feeling they plan on trying. This is what will eventually destroy them--their own arrogance and grandiose beliefs about their capabilities...and their tendency to underestimate the capabilities of the citizenry.

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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....

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Actually, I believe they've also reported that they are putting these RFID chips in the cell phones already. That's probably my true point with this thread. Regardless of what WE agree to, they'll find some way to tag us with this chip. It may not be implanted in our bodies, but there are any number of methods they can still use to track us with these things.

Originally posted by NightGypsy
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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 Segador

Originally posted by NightGypsy
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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

Or just expose yourself to an EMP burst and destroy it for sure

Originally posted by NightGypsy
. Regardless of what WE agree to, they'll find some way to tag us with this chip.

Actually, if you dig deep enough you will probably find that you DID agree to it through an adhesion contract through something you signed. And then, there is "presumed consent" which binds you to a lot of things that you may not even know about.

PLEASE , be forewarned bouys and gurls the chip or tatoo is going to be a choice. For heavens sake (not really) this is America the land of the free and home of the (Atlanta) brave. The bible states that those who do not get the mark of the beast SHOULD be killed, not would be. This interpretation implies that for one who chooses not to get the tag (RFID) or tatoo is to be considered an idiot or worse (just plain stupid). Watch the movies 1984, THX1138, Babylon AD and Imposter to get a pretty good idea how the system will work. In any case DO NOT GET THAT CHIP. May God bless, and as always you know I love you ATSers.

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I agree completely, they already have more then enough ways to track us between our "smart" phones, credit cards, etc. They know people will probably take up arms if they tried to force chip everyone.


I however, hope they do put RFID chips in everyone, because its gonna make it that much easier for a tech geek like me to steal your identity and make some serious $$$$, it'll be a walk in the park (literally )