Students at U of Washington Will Be Tagged and Monitored in RFID Experiment

Students at U of Washington Will Be Tagged and Monitored in RFID Experiment

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Welcome to the world of A Scanner Darkly -- made real. In March, a group of students at the University of Washington will put RFID tags (small radio-frequency emitting computer chips) all over their clothes and belongings. RFID readers that scan and track the tags will be installed throughout the campus' 6-story Paul Allen Building for computer science (pictured here).

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Apparently they're doing this to 'see what the future is going to be like'.

Project leader Magda Balazinska says "we want to observe how a group of people uses these tools, whether they find them useful, how they adapt them."

Is that the truth, or is there something more sinister afoot?

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This ain't that big of deal really.

I am in charge of the RFID access control system for a University in Oregon, and we implement all sorts of zoneable audit trail loop readers for a vast number of reasons. Keeping track of where every student individually goes is not high on the list. It's more of a group thing....(no joke intended

Plus, we already have cell phone features that allow you to pinpoint your buddies location via GPS....follow the dots.




[edit on 12-2-2008 by LockwithnoKey]