US student suspended for refusing to wear school-issued tracker

A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip.

Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the autumn. The ID badge has a bar code associated with a student's Social Security number, and the RFID chip monitors pupils' movements on campus, from when they arrive to when they leave.

Radio-frequency identification devices are a daily part of the electronic age -- found in passports and payment cards. Eventually they're expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods. Now, schools across the US are slowly adopting them as well.

By: David Kravets, Edited by: David Cornish

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via Wired.co.uk



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