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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:24 am Post subject: Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips |
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Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips
By Jo Best, Special to ZDNet Asia
Monday , July 12 2004 10:33 AM
Japanese authorities decide tracking is best way to protect kids
The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.
The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids' movements.
The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Denmark's Legoland introduced a similar scheme last month to stop young children going astray.
RFID is more commonly found in supermarket and other retailers' supply chains, however, companies are now seeking more innovative ways to derive value from the tracking technology. US airline Delta recently announced it would be using RFID to track travellers' luggage.
Jo Best of Silicon.com reported from London.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,39186467,00.htm |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips
By Jo Best, Special to ZDNet Asia
Monday , July 12 2004 10:33 AM
Japanese authorities decide tracking is best way to protect kids
The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.
The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids' movements.
The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Denmark's Legoland introduced a similar scheme last month to stop young children going astray.
RFID is more commonly found in supermarket and other retailers' supply chains, however, companies are now seeking more innovative ways to derive value from the tracking technology. US airline Delta recently announced it would be using RFID to track travellers' luggage.
Jo Best of Silicon.com reported from London.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,39186467,00.htm |
There is going over board and there is going overboard I think Japanese take the cake. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Doesn't Japan have a much lower rate of child kidnapping, molestation, and 'disappearance' compared to US and Canada?
(subtext: I would have expected the US to be the first country to implement this; from Japan it comes as a bit of a surprise). |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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In bags or clothes. Screw that...they should make them have sub-dermal inplants.
Try skipping school now! |
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