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    • October 26, 2007

    UK Attaches RFID Chips to Kids' School Uniforms

    Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program. David Clouter, a parent and founder of Leave Them Kids Alone, a children's advocacy group, condemned the plan. "With pupils being fingerprinted and now this it seems we are treating children in a way that we have traditionally treated criminals," he told the Doncaster Free Press.

    U.K. Kids Get RFID Chips In School Uniforms, InformationWeek, October 25, 2007.

    Posted by EPIC at October 26, 2007 4:12 PM
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