Are you worried whether your child is in school or not? Now, RFID technology will tell you the whereabouts of your child inside a school. UK has just undertaken a pilot project, in which school children are tagged with RFID chips.
According to the Information Week, Doncaster-based Hungerhill secondary school has introduced RFID to keep track on the children as an effective step to control behavior of the kids and enhance attendance. The RFID chips are being attached in the school uniforms.
The project has been introduced as an experimental basis involving ten students who wear RFID-enabled uniforms. If the project proves successful, then it will be extended to all the students and perhaps to other British schools.
As we have often argued that human tagged is not acceptable under any conditions due to the privacy factors. The same logic is also applicable here.
A children’s advocacy group, Leave Them Kids Alone has sharply criticized the recent move taken by the Hungerhill School.
It’s founder David Clouter strongly noted,
With pupils being fingerprinted and now this it seems we are treating children in a way that we have traditionally treated criminals.
