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Big brother indeed. This article talks about using RFID tags to track students for attendance so schools can get funding, which is good. But then they go on to say the cards aren't encrypted so it would be super easy to clone one, which is bad. The first thing I thought of was, why not just hand it off to somebody you had your first class with then you would present and accounted for-doesn't seem hard. I also liked that the parents were up in arms some places about their kids being tracked, but kids are used to it. If they aren't tracked by their parents, they are most likely online via social media and are being tracked there too. Also the only health risk mentioned is radiation not the fact that you have to carry this thing every where-gross, I hate to see what these cards look like at the end of the year.

I posted something about this a couple weeks ago and then found this. Very interesting. We'll see how it plays out, but feels very 1984.