Comments on: RFID chips and schoolkids http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: yRFID http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-15319 yRFID Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html#comment-15319 Just hang around a customs area with a powerful microwave gun and kill all RFID passports. Once enough people are fried and no RFID passports actually work, using the paper itself might come back into style. Just hang around a customs area with a powerful microwave gun and kill all RFID passports. Once enough people are fried and no RFID passports actually work, using the paper itself might come back into style.

]]> By: Roger Whaley http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-15320 Roger Whaley Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html#comment-15320 I don't know if RFID will make it cheaper to keep track of kids. I think that RFID tags will make it POSSIBLE to know where students are in the building. I work in a building with plenty of places to hide. Have you ever signed a pass and wondered if the student was really going where he said he was going? I don’t know if RFID will make it cheaper to keep track of kids. I think that RFID tags will make it POSSIBLE to know where students are in the building. I work in a building with plenty of places to hide. Have you ever signed a pass and wondered if the student was really going where he said he was going?

]]> By: Miguel Guhlin http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-15321 Miguel Guhlin Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html#comment-15321 Slippery slope--or not--the fact remains that we are giving up much of our privacy. Although phones can be used as a way to track our movements, this freedom is exchanged for a benefit. Although RFID chips among students is not as bad as passport use, I am concerned that we are lowering the natural defenses Americans should naturally have in place. That grown-ups yield those freedoms up so easily speaks to the growing problem. How's that for poorly reasoned? Miguel Slippery slope–or not–the fact remains that we are giving up much of our privacy. Although phones can be used as a way to track our movements, this freedom is exchanged for a benefit.

Although RFID chips among students is not as bad as passport use, I am concerned that we are lowering the natural defenses Americans should naturally have in place. That grown-ups yield those freedoms up so easily speaks to the growing problem.

How’s that for poorly reasoned?

Miguel

]]> By: Scott McLeod http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html/comment-page-1#comment-15322 Scott McLeod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2006/11/rfid_chips_and_.html#comment-15322 We ARE giving up our privacy, often quite willingly. On a number of fronts we also are giving up our children's privacy, whether they want it given up or not. I imagine that you are right, Miguel, that in the end we may look back and wish we had done some things differently: I like your statement that "we are lowering the natural defenses Americans should naturally have in place." This is yet another example of the rapid rate of technological change outpacing our ability to think critically, come to consensus, make policy, etc. We ARE giving up our privacy, often quite willingly. On a number of fronts we also are giving up our children’s privacy, whether they want it given up or not. I imagine that you are right, Miguel, that in the end we may look back and wish we had done some things differently: I like your statement that “we are lowering the natural defenses Americans should naturally have in place.” This is yet another example of the rapid rate of technological change outpacing our ability to think critically, come to consensus, make policy, etc.

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