That's bullshit. Its not by any means a invasion of privacy since you're in a school, which may already have cameras to track you. This is for the good of the students.
Here in Brazil we have these and they are great for the school and the students, no invasion of privacy, and helps the school to know if you're in or out.
If you told a person 20 years ago that the government would be taking naked pictures of you before you got on an airplane, they wouldn't have believed you. Now our children will grow up thinking that's normal, and when their kids have to agree to have a government-owned tracking camera installed in their homes to verify their behavior one month prior to their flight, that will not seem so outrageous either.
If Principal Vernon didn't catch you, did you still break the rules?
The house camera thing sounds expensive.
I think most people would think thats an invasion of privacy too
[1] My school uses RFID-equipped ID badges, unfortunately they don't use them for attendance. (They should--right now people just sign an attendance sheet.) But one of their nicest uses is restrictive access based on degree program. Only computer engineers can get in the computer engineering lab, only masters' students can get in labs dedicated for masters' students, and so on.
These people remind of other technophobes who are afraid of radiation from WiFi and cell phones for "health reasons" but don't have a problem with sunbathing. The school should just invest in some science and technology classes rather than trying to argue with these people.
The school system is doing this because they think it will improve attendance and earn them more funding from the state. They obviously didn't educate people very well (a lot of misconceptions were apparent in the video) and I don't think this is going to necessarily improve attendance, either.
Hey guess what? If they can coerce you into carrying the devices, they can also threaten you with penalties -- ranging from marking you as "absent" or worse -- to deter you from shielding them.
Much easier to hold the card up to the light and find the chip, then snap the traces by bending it. I did this at summer camp to great effect. I had to get a new card so I could get into the building.
Another strange part is that when looking at attendance, this seems even easier to hack - just give your tag to someone else so they can scan it.
Am I missing something here? Are there RFID tags that work on longer distances?
Edit: Found some long-range RFID solutions out there. Other points remain though... seems easy to game and many offices already use it.
Well they get more funds from the state if they are able to show higher attendance rates so maybe that is by design. ;)
This is (in part) why so many are outraged.
If a student lobs their id over the fence, then walks out of the campus is the system going to think they were at school all night?
Seems very problematic to implement an EZ-pass style system.
† or codes, or biometrics, etc.
