ACLU Gets One Right

That's how bad it is out there, folks.  Oh, Nooooooo.   Chips would Nevvvvver be used to track humans!

Right.

From AP:

ACLU Rips Plan to Track R.I. Students

Jan 7, 9:46 PM (ET)

By MICHELLE R. SMITH

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers' backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary.

he pilot program set to start next week in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing radio frequency identification chips, or RFID chips, on their schoolbags. It would also equip two buses with global positioning systems, or GPS devices.

The school and parents will be able to track students on the bus, and the district hopes the program will improve busing efficiency, Superintendent Rosemarie Kraeger said. The devices are intended to record only when students enter and exit the bus, and the GPS would show where the bus was on it's route.

Parents could opt out of the program, Kraeger said.

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