Japan school gets spy chips
p2pnet.net News:- Kids at a school in Japan are to be tagged with Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) spy chips.
School authorities in Osaka “have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school,” says a ZDNet story here.
“The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids’ movements. The chips will be put onto kids’ schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Denmark’s Legoland introduced a similar scheme last month to stop young children going astray.”
Spy chips are being passed off as replacements for barcodes.
RFID devices have been found in German customer loyalty cards as well as products for sale, including goods from IBM, Gillette and Procter & Gamble.
July 15th, 2004 at 1:39 am
Sometime in the near future, we will all be walking around with these devices implanted in our bodies. No need for ankle bracelets for parolees, the existing RFID will do just fine.
And not just for law enforcement/security purposes. Big Brother – or more likely a big corporate contractor – will even have the ability to know where you spend your leasure time – so get ready for lots of precisely targeted advertising.
July 17th, 2004 at 4:33 pm
nothing a good pound with a two pound magnet couldnt solve