October 24, 2003

I have seen the face of Big Brother...

...and it's name is RFID. Wired has a story about how a middle-school in Buffalo is going to institute mandatory RFID tags for all its students. This means that the location of every student can be known by the administration at all times. If this doesn't make you afraid, you either aren't thinking or haven't read the right books.

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Posted by ryan at October 24, 2003 3:58 PM | TrackBack
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The mark of the beast!

Posted by: nick at October 24, 2003 5:01 PM

"He pooh-poohed the notion that the system would be abused..."
"'It's as private as anything else can be when your information is stored on a server,' he said."
At least they didn't implant the chips in the poor kids' foreheads (yet).


Posted by: rob at October 25, 2003 1:47 PM
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