Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips

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Japan:Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips
Japanese authorities decide tracking is best way to protect kids
By Jo Best -- CNETAsia
Monday, July 12, 2004
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The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.
The tags will be read by readers installed in school gates and other key locations to track the kids' movements.
The chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing in one Wakayama prefecture school. Denmark's Legoland introduced a similar scheme last month to stop young children going astray.
RFID is more commonly found in supermarket and other retailers' supply chains, however, companies are now seeking more innovative ways to derive value from the tracking technology. US airline Delta recently announced it would be using RFID to track travellers' luggage.
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Or the mark of a totalitarian regime?

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This is how it starts - not with something that every reasonable adult would reject (though 32 percent would allow themselves to be chipped, MS-NBC poll finds!) but with the excuse that it's good for children... or soldiers... or corporate employees while at work... and THEN...