Huntsville, Alabama school district to track students with RFID
The Huntsville school district aims to keep track of students who ride the bus with a new RFID system. the system, called ZPass, will allow school administrators to keep better track of those students...
View ArticleBrazilian city to use chips to keep track of school children
Although there are numerous ways around such a system, 20,000 students in the Brazilian city of Vitoria da Conquista will start wearing t-shirts with RFID microchips in them to school in an effort to...
View ArticleBiometrics gain more inroads into the public school system
As another school year begins, many districts are seeing a push towards the use of biometrics to track students throughout their school day. Despite the fact that these systems can easily be thwarted,...
View ArticleSan Antonio Students rebel against RFID tracking IDs
Parents and students plan on protesting the use of RFID tracking IDs that the students are required to wear. Many believe that the tags are more about money than keeping track of students.
View ArticleJesse Ventura: TSA planning on electrified taser wristbands for the public at...
Although the wristbands embedded with your information is real, they aren’t testing them yet outside of the medical field. The idea is that it will make security lines faster, but the airlines say they...
View ArticleTenn. State University Requires Students to Wear Trackable IDs
In an effort to increase campus security, TSU will require students, faculty and staff to wear Identification Cards while on campus. This is part of a broader effort to increase campus safety for the...
View ArticleRFID-blocking blazer and jeans could stop wireless identity theft
RFID/NFC (radio-frequency identification/near-field communication) readers can now be used to steal your personal information, including credit-card data, right from your pocket. More than 10 million...
View ArticleNew hi-tech office block in Sweden offers RFID chips in your hand for access...
Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We’re all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden,...
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