Originally published July 13 2004
Japanese schoolchildren to be tagged with RFID chips
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
As the debate over RFID and privacy rages, one grade school in Japan has decided to go ahead and tag students with RFID chips in order to track their whereabouts. This is something that causes me serious concern, because here, we're not talking about tagging products and shipping containers, we're talking about tagging people. I think that's a privacy violation with potential for abuse, especially if it's mandated by some authority.
- The rights and wrongs of using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on humans have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream.
- Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.
- The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids' movements.
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