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In a letter to parents, John Jay High School administrators assured them that the ID cards will store no personal information and that they’ll work only on school grounds.
“Think how important this will be in the case of an emergency,” the letter reads. “In addition, the ‘smart’ student ID card will be used in the breakfast and lunch lines in the cafeteria and to check out books from the library. Because all students will be required to wear their ‘smart’ ID, staff will be able to quickly identify Jay students inside the school.”
Despite those assurances, a coalition of privacy and civil liberties organizations and experts have called for a moratorium on the technology, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Liz McIntyre, author of "Spy Chips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move."
"These tags are always on," McIntyre told FoxNews.com. "There's no off switch on these things."
McIntyre, who began studying the technology in 2002, said she's primarily concerned with the electronic readers getting into the wrong hands or for students to attempt to use them fraudulently, perhaps by leaving them at school while being elsewhere.
"We're concerned that students could leave the tags in school and then leave," she said.
In a statement released last month, Dr. Katherine Albrecht, director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, warned against an impending backlash against the technology, which is currently in use only in two public school districts in Texas.
“Schools, of all places, should be teaching children how to participate in a free democratic society, not conditioning them to be tracked like cattle," Albrecht's statement read. "Districts planning to use RFID should brace themselves for a parent backlash, protests and lawsuits.”
Gonzalez rejected that criticism, saying the pilot program and the “smart” ID cards have been used successfully in Houston’s Spring Independent School District for at least the past five years.
“This is non-threatening technology,” he said. “This is not surveillance.”
“Think how important this will be in the case of an emergency,” the letter reads. “In addition, the ‘smart’ student ID card will be used in the breakfast and lunch lines in the cafeteria and to check out books from the library. Because all students will be required to wear their ‘smart’ ID, staff will be able to quickly identify Jay students inside the school.”
Despite those assurances, a coalition of privacy and civil liberties organizations and experts have called for a moratorium on the technology, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Liz McIntyre, author of "Spy Chips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move."
"These tags are always on," McIntyre told FoxNews.com. "There's no off switch on these things."
McIntyre, who began studying the technology in 2002, said she's primarily concerned with the electronic readers getting into the wrong hands or for students to attempt to use them fraudulently, perhaps by leaving them at school while being elsewhere.
"We're concerned that students could leave the tags in school and then leave," she said.
In a statement released last month, Dr. Katherine Albrecht, director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, warned against an impending backlash against the technology, which is currently in use only in two public school districts in Texas.
“Schools, of all places, should be teaching children how to participate in a free democratic society, not conditioning them to be tracked like cattle," Albrecht's statement read. "Districts planning to use RFID should brace themselves for a parent backlash, protests and lawsuits.”
Gonzalez rejected that criticism, saying the pilot program and the “smart” ID cards have been used successfully in Houston’s Spring Independent School District for at least the past five years.
“This is non-threatening technology,” he said. “This is not surveillance.”
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This is non-threatening technology,” he said. “This is not surveillance.”
yea right
yea right
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So then whats to prevent a would be abductor from removing the badge?? 
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perhaps on Texas this will fly, but in many parts of the country people simply will not cooperate
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Katherine Albrecht has spear headed an awareness campaign
to the parents of these children.For further info on privacy related issues view these 2 links
Complete info on media coverage of the event is available for reading on
her spychips.com link!
to the parents of these children.For further info on privacy related issues view these 2 links
Complete info on media coverage of the event is available for reading on
her spychips.com link!
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Scary stuff. This will load to world government before we know it.
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This is a interesting post. It's a dreadful thing. But some day in the near future every one will wear or have these chips inplanted in them.
Just another sign that our country, hell the whole dang world is going to H$!! in a hand basket. My son is 13 and I worry what kind of life he will have. not to mention his children. God bless our country .
Just another sign that our country, hell the whole dang world is going to H$!! in a hand basket. My son is 13 and I worry what kind of life he will have. not to mention his children. God bless our country .
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lisaofflorida64: This is a interesting post. It's a dreadful thing. But some day in the near future every one will wear or have these chips inplanted in them.
Just another sign that our country, hell the whole dang world is going to H$!! in a hand basket. My son is 13 and I worry what kind of life he will have. not to mention his children. God bless our country .
Just another sign that our country, hell the whole dang world is going to H$!! in a hand basket. My son is 13 and I worry what kind of life he will have. not to mention his children. God bless our country .
All I can say is dont for Obama, or you will be dealing with more hell than you can imagine.
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stringman: Brushing aside privacy concerns by parents and civil rights activists, a Texas school district has gone live with a controversial program requiring all students to wear a locator radio chip that will enable officials to track their every move – or face expulsion
At the beginning of the school year students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District were told their old student ID badges were no longer valid. During registration they were required to obtain new badges containing a radio frequency identification tracker chip.
On October 1, the schools went live with a program to use the chips to track the exact locations of students using the badges. The badges would even be able to tell if a student in a classroom is in his seat or somewhere else in the room.
The paper said RFID tracking is dehumanizing, since it can “monitor how long a student or teacher spends in a bathroom stall.”
We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do.”
Galindo went on to suggest there would be consequences if she did not agree to wear the new badge
fter paying a $30 fee with the FOIA request I was able to get every student’s name and address,” Fazio explained. “Using this information along with an RFID reader means a predator could use this information to determine if the student is at home and then track them wherever they go. These chips are always broadcasting so anyone with a reader can track them anywhere.”
At the beginning of the school year students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District were told their old student ID badges were no longer valid. During registration they were required to obtain new badges containing a radio frequency identification tracker chip.
On October 1, the schools went live with a program to use the chips to track the exact locations of students using the badges. The badges would even be able to tell if a student in a classroom is in his seat or somewhere else in the room.
The paper said RFID tracking is dehumanizing, since it can “monitor how long a student or teacher spends in a bathroom stall.”
We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do.”
Galindo went on to suggest there would be consequences if she did not agree to wear the new badge
fter paying a $30 fee with the FOIA request I was able to get every student’s name and address,” Fazio explained. “Using this information along with an RFID reader means a predator could use this information to determine if the student is at home and then track them wherever they go. These chips are always broadcasting so anyone with a reader can track them anywhere.”
I think this is a good idea. I think it's a good idea for all working people to wear similar, but unremovable, devices too so all retirees can make sure that they are working and paying everyone's share of taxes.
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galrads: I think this is a good idea. I think it's a good idea for all working people to wear similar, but unremovable, devices too so all retirees can make sure that they are working and paying everyone's share of taxes.
Been any number of aged people wandering out of rest homes and dieing here . One saved because they had a device like this on them just a little while ago . No different to my epirb that I carry at all times , just don't have to turn on the chips for the kids which is better .------ This thread is Archived ------
If I had been in that school, and they gave me a choice of "wear it or leave", I would gladly have said, "Yippee, I get to leave school."
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this is follow up on the micro chip article.
A student in a Texas school district has been told she is to be expelled for refusing to wear a student ID badge that essentially places her in an “electronic concentration camp.”
“Regimes in the past have always started with the schools, where they develop a compliant citizenry,” John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute said. “They are getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government. This is where everything is headed.
WND previously reported on the case of Andrea Hernandez, a student at John Jay High School in the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. This year, the school implemented a new program requiring students to wear badges containing an RFID chip, which would be used to track them anywhere they went, including the restrooms. Hernandez refused to wear the chip, citing privacy and religious issues.
The RFID card is part of a pilot program called the “Student Locator Project” at John Jay and Anson Jones Middle School, which the district hopes to expand to cover all of its 112 schools, with a total student population of 100,000.
The primary intent of the tracking cards is not to increase student safety but to increase state funding to the district.
WOAI-TV in San Antonio reported district spokesman Pasqual Gonzalez said the two schools have a high rate of truancy, and the district could gain $2 million in state funding by improving attendance.
Despite the schools having 290 surveillance cameras, officials apparently believe that is not enough to keep track of students attending the schools.
After her refusal to wear the tracking chip, Hernandez was warned in a letter that there would “be consequences.” Following through on its threats, the district sent Hernandez a letter informing her she would expelled effective Nov. 26.
The Rutherford Institute intends to file a request for a temporary restraining order this week that would prohibit school officials from expelling Hernandez.
“She is a great achiever academically and she worked hard to get here. She should not be expelled for simply standing up for her First Amendment rights,” Whitehead said.
For Hernandez, the issue is the ID card but the RFID chip. The district subsequently offered to permit her to wear a card identical to those with the chip that did not contain the tracking device.
Whitehead said that while the offer may appear to be a reasonable compromise, it misses the point.
“Forcing her to wear a badge that essentially says she endorses the trackers when she doesn’t would be like requiring a Jewish student to wear a badge endorsing the Holocaust,” he said.
Hernandez has drawn national attention to the district’s policy. Because of this, Whitehead said, the district is singling her out for punishment. Hernandez is not the only student who has refused to wear the chip, however, she is the only one to face expulsion.
“She has become a thorn in their side and has been singled out,” Whitehead said. “The easiest way to solve the problem of a thorn is to remove it. I have been working on these types of cases for over 40 years, and the government either tries to sweep these problems under the rug or remove the person causing the problem.”
He said the case is important, because the district is attempting to show students that they will be punished for exercising their constitutional rights.
Prior to the expulsion letter, Hernandez faced other consequences. She was refused the right to vote for homecoming king and queen because she did not have the proper ID. Hernandez was using her old school-issued ID card at the time.
A student in a Texas school district has been told she is to be expelled for refusing to wear a student ID badge that essentially places her in an “electronic concentration camp.”
“Regimes in the past have always started with the schools, where they develop a compliant citizenry,” John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute said. “They are getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government. This is where everything is headed.
WND previously reported on the case of Andrea Hernandez, a student at John Jay High School in the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas. This year, the school implemented a new program requiring students to wear badges containing an RFID chip, which would be used to track them anywhere they went, including the restrooms. Hernandez refused to wear the chip, citing privacy and religious issues.
The RFID card is part of a pilot program called the “Student Locator Project” at John Jay and Anson Jones Middle School, which the district hopes to expand to cover all of its 112 schools, with a total student population of 100,000.
The primary intent of the tracking cards is not to increase student safety but to increase state funding to the district.
WOAI-TV in San Antonio reported district spokesman Pasqual Gonzalez said the two schools have a high rate of truancy, and the district could gain $2 million in state funding by improving attendance.
Despite the schools having 290 surveillance cameras, officials apparently believe that is not enough to keep track of students attending the schools.
After her refusal to wear the tracking chip, Hernandez was warned in a letter that there would “be consequences.” Following through on its threats, the district sent Hernandez a letter informing her she would expelled effective Nov. 26.
The Rutherford Institute intends to file a request for a temporary restraining order this week that would prohibit school officials from expelling Hernandez.
“She is a great achiever academically and she worked hard to get here. She should not be expelled for simply standing up for her First Amendment rights,” Whitehead said.
For Hernandez, the issue is the ID card but the RFID chip. The district subsequently offered to permit her to wear a card identical to those with the chip that did not contain the tracking device.
Whitehead said that while the offer may appear to be a reasonable compromise, it misses the point.
“Forcing her to wear a badge that essentially says she endorses the trackers when she doesn’t would be like requiring a Jewish student to wear a badge endorsing the Holocaust,” he said.
Hernandez has drawn national attention to the district’s policy. Because of this, Whitehead said, the district is singling her out for punishment. Hernandez is not the only student who has refused to wear the chip, however, she is the only one to face expulsion.
“She has become a thorn in their side and has been singled out,” Whitehead said. “The easiest way to solve the problem of a thorn is to remove it. I have been working on these types of cases for over 40 years, and the government either tries to sweep these problems under the rug or remove the person causing the problem.”
He said the case is important, because the district is attempting to show students that they will be punished for exercising their constitutional rights.
Prior to the expulsion letter, Hernandez faced other consequences. She was refused the right to vote for homecoming king and queen because she did not have the proper ID. Hernandez was using her old school-issued ID card at the time.
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Whitehead said the argument by government officials is that a person has no expectation of privacy in a public school or on the sidewalk outside the building. However, he doesn’t accept that line of thinking.
“If a student is walking down the hallway and talking to his girlfriend, should the school have the ability to read their lips to see what they are talking about?” he asked. “What’s the difference between that and being an animal in a zoo?”
He warned that while it may seem like an isolated incident in a single school district, the tracking chips will eventually be implemented across the country.
“The forces behind this are very strong so people need to get ready for it,” Whitehead said. “We are moving into a time where we are going to be in an electronic concentration camp wherever we go.”
“If a student is walking down the hallway and talking to his girlfriend, should the school have the ability to read their lips to see what they are talking about?” he asked. “What’s the difference between that and being an animal in a zoo?”
He warned that while it may seem like an isolated incident in a single school district, the tracking chips will eventually be implemented across the country.
“The forces behind this are very strong so people need to get ready for it,” Whitehead said. “We are moving into a time where we are going to be in an electronic concentration camp wherever we go.”
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This is far to intrusive. Sure it will let you know where your kids are but it will also let the predators out there know. You tell me the drug dealers, who have plenty of cash to get learn to track kids and locate them for easy access to sell their poison, won't use this technology.
I thought this was a free country still. I must be mistaken. Here in my part of Ohio we fought over school uniforms and won. I don't see the chips coming here. If they did, I would help people set up home schooling and computer classes.
Thankfully my boys are grown and long out of school. If I had grands... this would never fly with me or them.
I thought this was a free country still. I must be mistaken. Here in my part of Ohio we fought over school uniforms and won. I don't see the chips coming here. If they did, I would help people set up home schooling and computer classes.
Thankfully my boys are grown and long out of school. If I had grands... this would never fly with me or them.
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At the beginning of the school year students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School within the Northside Independent School District were told their old student ID badges were no longer valid. During registration they were required to obtain new badges containing a radio frequency identification tracker chip.
On October 1, the schools went live with a program to use the chips to track the exact locations of students using the badges. The badges would even be able to tell if a student in a classroom is in his seat or somewhere else in the room.
The paper said RFID tracking is dehumanizing, since it can “monitor how long a student or teacher spends in a bathroom stall.”
We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do.”
Galindo went on to suggest there would be consequences if she did not agree to wear the new badge
fter paying a $30 fee with the FOIA request I was able to get every student’s name and address,” Fazio explained. “Using this information along with an RFID reader means a predator could use this information to determine if the student is at home and then track them wherever they go. These chips are always broadcasting so anyone with a reader can track them anywhere.”