AT&T Offers GPS and RFID Child Tracking

[flashl]

ATT&T explains why you need to add this to your MUST have list:

AT&T has announced a new GPS and RFID child-tracking system, designed to help teachers and schools keep track of kids on school grounds and in buses.

There's no doubt that schools and teachers can face significant challenges trying to keep track of hundreds of students and assure their safety while simultaneously teaching them something. (I can personally attest that I was rarely learning something at the same time my teachers knew where I was.) Now AT&T is looking to apply technology to the problem, offering a comprehensive child-tracking solution for the K-12 education market combining RFID and GPS technologies to enable schools to keep track of school bus locations and speed while simultaneously monitoring events within the vehicles.

"Our RFID and MRM services help K-12 institutions rapidly deploy end-to-end solutions without significant capital investment," said Ann Rotatori, vice president of Business Marketing for AT&T, in a statement. "For the first time, school districts can now turn to a network services provider for all of their RFID and MRM needs, and that enables them to save money, make the most of their assets and resources and enhance student safety."

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[baldguy]

1. Implant RFID chips in our children & track them like any other inventory.

Think of how much money schools can save!


"Curiously, nowhere in AT&T's description of the technology does the company mention the privacy rights of students, or any ability for students or parents to opt out of such a system. We imagine the company is leaving such policy decisions up to individual schools and districts."

Nothing at all "curious" about it.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Is it "Logan's Run" yet?

[zabet]

3. Just the beginning

of the aclimation of the
masses to have tracking
devices implanted. "It
is for your child's safety,
It is for your safety, it
is for the nation's safety..."
:puke::puke::puke:

[flashl]

4. First, Pet IDs

Pet owners have begun implanting their cats and dogs with RFID chips to locate them should they become lost.

Then, it was a life and death decision for Alzheimer patients.