Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students

[OnlinePoker]

Chinese schools have begun enforcing "smart uniforms" embedded with computer chips to monitor student movements and prevent them from skipping classes.

Eleven schools in the south-west province of Guizhou have introduced the uniforms, which were developed by local tech firm Guizhou Guanyu Technology.

As students enter the school, the time and date is recorded along with a short video that parents can access via a mobile app.

Facial recognition further ensures that each uniform is worn by its rightful owner to prevent students from cheating the system.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/microchipped-school-uniforms-monitor-students-in-china/10671604
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It's a scary new world - Nothing brave about it. Sorry, Huxley.

[Igel]

1. Slightly higher tech.

Maybe 5 years a local school district here implemented RFID tags for their HS students.

RFID Identification Badges
o Radio Frequency Identification student ID badges are used at secondary campuses, which include four high schools and seven middle schools.
o RFID readers situated throughout each secondary campus are used to identify where students are located in the building for safety and attendance reporting.
o RFID identifies the whereabouts of students during a fire drill and/or emergency.

They don't monitor them every minute, but they could monitor them. The chip's in their IDs. It's a punishable offense not to have your ID. Not only is there no cafeteria service for you, but there are ID checks and referrals for non-compliance.

It was put in place not because it gave them control--it does, by the way, it's not the best school district--but to start off with because some many parents had child issues with buses. Officially it was because one parent allegedly nabbed his kid, the claim was it was at school and the district said, "Nope, had to be after the kid got off the bus." The kid showed up and the kid had run away by bus.

Which was the real problem. Kids get home at 3:15, parents at 6, and you want to make sure that the kid goes to the right neighborhood, at least. Instead, kids were sneaking on friends' buses and using the after-school transportation as public transport. So you don't get on the bus without your ID, coming or going, and as you get on/off the bus you're scanned. Harder to check the IDs that just flashed quickly and isn't your own, but life's imperfect and people are going to do what people are going to do, whatever the authorities tell them.

And there were kids who'd be truant or not show up and the school needed proof that the kid (a) never got on the bus or (b) returned home.

RFID. Not as nice as GPS, and no video, but they're low budget.

[ecstatic]

2. Doesn't sound healthy having GPS so close to the body

for so many hours. I know some people who started having problems on their arm after wearing certain smart watches all the time. I haven't looked for any scientific evidence to back up my conclusions, just going with my intuition, which tends to be right. BTW, I own 2 smart watches with Bluetooth and GPS built in.

[X_Digger]

4. Umm, GPS is a receive only signal. You're soaking in it (as Madge would say).

[Claritie Pixie]

3. Dystopian nightmare. No privacy, no freedom.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Scary to think that some people might eventually want that here as well

I mean, some people are voluntarily getting themselves chipped. As I've learned, things that are "voluntary" almost inevitably become mandatory.

[allgood33]

6. It won't be long before they are able to track all of us thru our clothing, our toys, our cars,

our food.