...A chief complaint with child-tracking technology is the simple fact that it treats them like animals. There´s also often a party in the mix that stands to profit from government-sponsored programs, just like the one Schumer is suggesting. That was the case in California in 2005 when parents protested a student-tracking program at local schools on the grounds that they had little control over who would run the program. They also didn´t like the idea that the tracking program was pegged to levels of attendance, a measurement that affects how the school receives its funding. In other words, tracking students meant more tax payer dollars for the participating schools. The same was true for a similar case in Texas in 2012... gizmodo.au/2014/01/should-we-really-be-tracking-our-children-like-wildlife/
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:40:59 +0000
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