Schoolkid chipping trial 'a success'
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A school in Doncaster is piloting a monitoring system designed to keep tabs on pupils by tracking radio chips in their uniforms.
According to the Doncaster Free Press, Hungerhill School is testing RFID tracking and data collection on 10 pupils within the school. It's been developed by local company Darnbro Ltd, which says it is ready to launch the product into the £300m school uniform market.
Boss Trevor Darnborough said: "The Department for Education and Skills is keen to promote use of electronic registration in schools because of its benefits in efficiently monitoring pupils' attendance and the speedy retrieval and analysis of data.
"The system saves valuable lesson time, often wasted in registration and monitoring, while ensuring parents of their children's security. And there's the additional benefit of reduced costs in replacing school uniforms that have gone astray." The Hungerhill trial has been "successful", he added.
Darnbro isn't the only firm with sights set on high-tech blazers. In August Lancashire-based Trutex, "Britain's favourite schoolwear supplier", announced its own plans to chip schoolchildren.
David Clouter, founder of anti-fingerprinting group "Leave them kids alone", said: "To put this in a school badge is complete and utter surveillance of the children. Tagging is what we do to criminals we let out of prison early."
Hungerhill headteacher Graham Wakeling said the pilot was "not intrusive to the pupil in the slightest."
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COMMENTS
Brilliance
Just think, now if the kid goes missing, at least you'll be able to track down and recover the lost blazer. Seen the cost of school blazers these days? - money well spent I'd say.
Oh, finding the kid . . . pah! who cares.
I remember registration
"Philips"
"Sir"
"Preston"
"Sir"
"Roberts"
<silence>
Sigh "Where's Roberts?"
"He's been put away sir" (Sent to prison)
Smiles "Really?"
"Yes Sir"
"Great"
this will never EVER work, so quit trying.
Kids (I was one once) will always find a way to bunk school, if they are motivated to do so.
Most kids,
(especially the kind of kids this system is being designed to track!!) already know how to defeat contemporary RFID chips, even if they don't know it!
Seen a *ridiculously expensive* CD in HMV that you like?...
Cue the old tinfoil lined hoody pocket and BAM, RFID, er, foiled.
Lets face it, I know kids that are capable of following even the most complicated instructions pertaining to various hacks etc (think xbox mods and so on..)
I can see no real significant obstacle to cloning these flaky devices, even for school children.
Which brings me to the worrying conclusion that, say your child became the victim of your neighbourhood pedo/priest/teacher, whaty's to stop them cloning the devices to create the perfect alibi?
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