“As part of the pilot program, roughly 4,200 students at Jay High School and Jones Middle School were required to wear ‘SmartID’ card badges embedded with an RFID tracking chip which made it possible for school officials to track students’ whereabouts on campus at all times,” Rutherford explained. School officials hoped to expand the program to the district’s 112 schools. But Hernandez, 15, a Christian, said the badge posed a significant religious freedom concern in addition to the obvious privacy issues. When she objected and asked to opt out, she was threatened with, “There will be consequences for refusal to wear an ID card.” Read more at wnd/2013/08/student-defeats-school-district-over-microchipping/#RqbfeWsi0lRPL1Km.99
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:00:05 +0000
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