Wearing RFID Chips In School

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RFID Chips in School
Using RFID chips in school is a bad idea because some people feel like it invades privacy. Kim Zetter of WIRED magazine states that in some schools the students are required to wear the RFID chips without the parents even knowing. Michele Tatro, parent of a 13 year old girl whose school implemented the use of RFID chips at all times, says "I'm not willing for anybody to track me and I don’t think my children should be tracked, either" (Zetter). The schools didn’t ask how the parents felt about using the RFID chips before actually putting the RFID chips in acction. There are sensors above doors so that when the student with the chip passes under it the sensor sends a number to the computer telling the teacher that the

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