Tracking your tots schooling through microchips in their uniforms

Tracking your tots schooling through microchips in their uniforms

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Students at a secondary school in South Yorkshire are being tracked by microchips sewn in their uniforms as part of a trial.

The radio frequency identification system monitors pupils' movements, and automatically logs their attendance on the teacher's computer. It can also alert teachers if a student is likely to misbehave.

The trial involves 10 students in whose uniforms this chip was embedded about eight months ago.

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8months ago? ...is there any update to this story?

Ignoring the sad fact that this originated from "India Times", it's no more than a building access control tag system, and won't work outside the building.

Those are in quite a few high-security facilities keyed to your badges. You can't open doors you really shouldn't be in, and it provides a trail of the places you DID go. Which sometimes is really handy, because if you're there as a consultant it can get really confusing - they all look alike inside, and I don't WANT to go somewhere I shouldn't.

For that matter, our doors at work won't open for you if you don't have the right tags. And it takes more than one - if you mug one of us and don't get them all you will trip an alarm and you'll be in the "foyer" until the cops get there, both fore and aft doors lock, cameras flash, alarms sound, cops respond. It's not pretty.