Finger Scanning at Disney Park -- July 16, 2005 .... photo / VIDEO included
http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html
RFID for children's sleepwear
http://www.rfidinsights.com/news/165701942;jsessionid=BLFIV23WEP1Z4QSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN
Pentagon's database on students for recruitment --June 26, 2005
Will the draft be next ?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8322795/
Iris scanning The Children's Identification and Location Database (CHILD) Project -June 22, 2005
Iridian Technologies' ProofPositive technology is the basis of The Children's Identification and Location Database (CHILD) Project that is now being introduced in communities across the country. The CHILD Project is a secure nationwide network and registry that enables law enforcement and social service agencies to locate and positively identify missing children and adults with iris biometric recognition
http://www.contactlessnews.com/weblog/2005/06/20/iris-recognition-system-is-basis-for-national-missing-person-identification-program/
"home" away from home ....
The proposal coincides with an announcement today by Ruth Kelly, the Minister for Education, of plans for schools to open from 8am to 6pm to offer a safe environment for latchkey children and to meet the demands of working parents. Schools and local authorities will be allocated £680 million by 2008 to fund childcare, breakfast clubs, and after-school sports and arts activities.
"Imagine" .... mothers staying at home, taking 24/7 care of their kids
Neglect of Duty
" I remember my mother, the day that we met;
A thing I shall never entirely forget.
And I toy with the fancy that, young as I am,
I should know her again if we meet in a tram.
But mother is happy in turning a crank
That increases the balance at somebody's bank
And I feel satisfaction that mother is free
From the sinister task of attending to me" ---- G.K. Chesterton
Children labeled "criminal" by age 3 -- June 13, 2005
Promoted by Tony Blair
A leaked 250-page report on proposed crime-fighting strategies, drawn up on instructions of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, recommends training nursery workers to target children as young as three years of age as potential criminals.
Children as young as three can be labeled as potential criminals, the report's writers claim, if the exhibit bullying behavior in nursery school or if there is a history of criminality in the immediate family.
Foster Care ...10 hour school day
In a related move to preempt crimes that may or may not happen, the Violent Crime Reduction Bill was published last week. The measure gives the police the right to designate "alcohol disorder zones" and issue 48-hour exclusion notices on anyone they believe is about to cause trouble in an area, even if they are not drunk or have committed no offense. Disregarding the ban carries a potential prison sentence.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44733
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1652127,00.html
Keeping track of your kids
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/52/50284.htm
Atlanta Georgia parents monitor ( spy) what kids eat for lunch --May 30, 2005
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2005/may/30/053002007.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2005/may/29/052901127.html
Just my opinion : This type of thing breeds distrust, and children then rebel against such constant surveillance.
If a person is distrusted long enough, they will act untrustworthy, since they are already deemed that way.
This breaks down the closest bond between parent and child. Enmity begins.
Even allowance is on a card : Allow Card -- May 23, 2005
Getting started early on "easy payment"; will this lead to the debt cycle eventually ?
the Allow Card, a stored value debit card created specifically for kids; the Allow Card is part of a larger system featuring online account controls and tools, financial lessons and interactive games designed to teach fiscal responsibility to America's children.
The Allow Card is aimed primarily at children ages 10 to 19, and is geared toward helping them get a grasp of their allowance and finances, establish a better sense of trust with their parents and learn valuable life lessons, while still giving them financial independence. Because the Allow Card is a Personal Identification Number (PIN)-based debit card, it offers kids a more secure payment method than cash, checks or credit cards. Further, the personalized Allow Card is accepted at more than 26 million locations in the U.S. and abroad, making it a convenient way to pay for everyday items.
http://www.cr80news.com/weblog/2005/05/13/allow-card-takes-concept-of-allowance-and-updates-it-for-21st-century/
Government database on college students -- May 17, 2005
Under the plan, first discussed last fall, the department would maintain files on virtually every college and university student in the country – 15 million students from 6,000 schools.
I question the need and appropriateness of even having a Department of Education, let alone giving it more authority and power in terms of keeping track of American citizens engaged in formal education," said Michael D. Ostrolenk, Education Policy Director of both EdWatch, an education watchdog group, and Eagle Forum, a pro-family movement.
http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/5/15/204557.shtml
Frightening video : School security robots chasing children
http://www.gearlive.com/index.php/news/article/secom_school_security_robots_04181134/ (mk)
Keeping an eye on your children ( most parents want it) -- April 29, 2005
Liberty groups do not
Civil liberties and privacy issues rage around the subject of child surveillance. The Children's Panopticon, a campaigning website that fights for children's "human right to privacy", argues that tracking devices
"lull parents into a false sense of security, are no substitute for discussion and trust and they give children the message that the world is a fearsome place".
It could never happen here? Perhaps. But with the UK the leading proponent of CCTV - we have more than four million cameras watching us, far more per head of population than any other country - child surveillance in schools is taking a different but equally controversial direction.
Last year, pupils at the Sunnybank Preparatory School, a private school in Burnley, began working under the constant eye of web cams. Their parents can monitor their progress by logging on to a secure internet site
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&targetRule=10&xml=/health/2005/04/29/hlott29.xml
GPS enabled school uniforms hit Japan -- April 18, 2005
"an assault on the youngsters' right to privacy"
According to gizmo hub Engadget, the jackets, in addition to letting parents track their kids, sport a panic button that children can push in an emergency, immediately summoning a security agent to their exact location. The GPS-enabled blazers are made by school uniform maker Ogo-Sangyo, with GPS technology provided by Secom, which previously teamed up on a kids' backpack with built-in GPS.
http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-5671524.html?part=rss&tag=5671524&subj=news
All California 4 yr. olds to Preschool--March 30, 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/03/29/financial/f163621S52.DTL
UN wants to register all children ---Feb. 23, 2005
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has helped launch a global campaign calling for governments to ensure all children are registered at birth....
"The unregistered child is a nonentity. The unregistered child does not exist." - Desmond Tutu
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child imposes an obligation on countries to register every child immediately after birth.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4289393.stm
Plan USA’s global campaign for all children to be registered at birth will be launched by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in New York on Tuesday, February. The campaign, “Write me down, make me real,” calls on governments to register the 48 million children whose births go unrecorded each year.
http://www.planusa.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1935
Global Registration "PLAN"
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,6119,2-7-1442_1666323,00.html
Parents protest tracking devices http://i-newswire.com/pr5741.html
SF school website http://www.brittan.k12.ca.us/
School RFID gets an "F" -- Feb. 10, 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66554,00.html?tw=wn_story_related
The InCom Corp. InClass
This wireless, radio frequency, ID-based system can be adapted to almost any school environment to take attendance. Students wear an RFID tag in a proprietary plastic holder that's attached to a lanyard worn around their neck. Antennas that are placed above the classroom doors activate the RFID tag, read its encrypted information and send it to a server located in the school. The server then sends that information wirelessly to teachers, via their handheld PDA, so they can confirm class attendance for that period
www.incomcorporation.com,
VeriCool :
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=65851
The VeriCool technology - supplied free to the 1,300-pupil school for the trial by specialist firm Anteon UK - will also be used to introduce a cashless catering system.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=65851
Enrolling children in CHIPS -- Aug. 8, 2005
http://www.rednova.com/news/health/199437/spread_the_word_about_chip/
CHIP -- Nat'l Health care for children -- Jan 26, 2005 Children's Health INSURANCE Program
CHIP provides state-backed coverage for children in low-income working families who cannot afford private health insurance. To be eligible, a family can earn up to twice the federal poverty level, which means that children in a family of four that earns about $36,000 annually qualify for coverage.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/legislature/10737458.htm?1c
CHIP -- Child Health INVESTMENT Partnership
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050125005837&newsLang=en
Constant surveillance causes criminal behavior mindset
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/soundoff/story.html?id=dae86a0a-6e54-4970-ab0a-af89008e0f57
Legoland and others want children tagged -- Jan. 24, 2005
Sun CEO Scott McNealy has famously asked in the past whether his electronically tagging his dog but not his sons means he loves his dog more than his children. [ Ed. note: manipulation by guilt tactics ] After all, children don't have the same rights as adults and their safety generally comes above most other matters
http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39127258,00.htm
Colleges Control students by RFID -- Dec. 28, 2004
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp?storyid=56896
Lockdown ... for DAYS ( school takes precedence over home)
Code Blue Shelter-in-Place, which is activated when an emergency or crisis makes it necessary to keep students and staff indoors for their safety. Although this can include weather-related emergencies, the shelter-in-place system was primarily established to be used in the event of a chemical, biological or radiological incident, according to MCPS emergency plans. Students and staff must be brought indoors – quickly – or their very lives may be in danger.
MCPS rules prohibit anyone from entering or leaving schools during a Code Blue Shelter-in-Place
While the initial steps taken during a shelter-in-place are focused on immediate survival and safety, students could possibly be forced to remain in the school for several hours or even days. MCPS requires that their schools be well prepared for this possibility. "Every school is equipped with a two-to-three-day supply of food," said Edward Clarke, the MCPS Director of School Safety and Security. If the shelter-in-place lasted longer, "we would coordinate with the American Red Cross in order to get food to the schools," he said
Parents must show a photo ID in order to pick up their student, who would be called down from class.
http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/inside.php?sid=4462
Scanners to check for absence and attendance per class -- Dec. 3, 2004
Pupils at a secondary school are being "fingerprinted" before each lesson in a bid to combat truancy
If a pupil does not check in, the system sends a text message or e-mail to his or her parents, telling them their child is absent. The school telephones parents who do not have a computer or mobile phone alerts
If the scheme is a success, it is likely to be extended to verify the identity of examination candidates; make head counts on school trips; control the issuing of library books and monitor access to school buildings
The technology will also be used to introduce a cashless catering system, which will avoid the need for pupils to carry money and help to increase security
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2004/12/01/ntru01.xml&sSheet=/global/2004/12/01/home.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3821744
Des Moines, and Dubuque, Iowa : fingerprint ID for lunches - Dec. 7, 2004
Many districts currently require students to present an identification card to pay for their lunches. When the card is scanned it confirms there is money in an account to pay for the meal.
Some students have complained that they've had to go without food when they forget their card or lose it.
http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2654277
Will technology ever catch up to stay-at-home-Mom's supervision ? It worked for 6,000 years !
KiddyKoral
The system uses a digital camera, scanners and passive transponder technology to provide the school with a very flexible access control system and automated accounting system, while controlling movement of the children," Mark Cowley explained. Infotronics International Inc.
KiddyKoral, marketed by Infotronics International, is an easy-to-use Windows-based application designed for child-care facilities. The system utilizes a combination of leading edge technologies: Digital photography,
TROVAN HandsFree™ Cards and digital scanning backed up by Microsoft Access and networking.
Each parent or guardian is required to be registered on the KiddyKoral database where all details and a digital photograph are linked to a unique TROVAN ID card. These records are then linked to the child’s database record containing all the child’s details, a photograph and other useful information, such as immunizations and allergies. When the child is picked up, the ID card is scanned and the photographs of the children linked to that card are displayed for the operator to authorize release.
http://www.rfidnews.com/kiddykoral.html
You remember Trovan..they make subdermal ID chips too. ( Germany - UK; Santa Barbara, CA )
GPS for tots; GIS grid locates playgrounds and Parks -- Dec. 8, 2004
( could have used that Nov. 3 in New Jersey)
Thanks to a joint technological effort between Howard County Government and the Columbia Association, 9-1-1 operators and the emergency crews they dispatch now have a more efficient way of locating Columbia tot-lots and Recreation & Parks’ playgrounds, which are often located in remote locations with no actual street address.
Using a global positioning system, each tot-lot and playground has been mapped and assigned a location identity. These identifiers, which correspond to the County’s GIS grid, are now clearly displayed on location markers at playground sites. Should an emergency occur, callers to 9-1-1 can use the new location IDs as a quick reference for operators.
http://www.theviewnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=4841&paper=91&cat=187
Cashless Lunches-- Nov. 30, 2004
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/112004/11242004/1581771
F16 "attacks" New Jersey school -- Nov. 3, 2004 ... a higher power
Little Egg Harbor, NJ (WJZ) Residents angry that an Air National Guard F-16 strafed an intermediate school last week fired back at the military Monday night, demanding it cease live-fire operations at a nearby target range.
The military is still investigating last Wednesday's incident in which a jet fighter on a nighttime training exercise accidentally fired 25 rounds from a 20mm cannon, some of which struck the Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School.
The plane involved belonged to the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Several residents were angry that the military did not notify the town of the incident, but instead responded to inquiries after damage was noticed at the school.
http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_314092423.html
Government to keep data on school kids --Nov. 29, 2004
Ed. note: like what are their persuasions
A proposal by the federal government to create a vast new database of enrollment records on all college and university students is raising concerns that the move will erode the privacy rights of students.
For the first time, however, colleges and universities would have to give the government data on all students individually,
Under the proposal, the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education would receive,
analyze [ profile] and guard the data. In making its case for the change, the center points to a history of working with student information and says it has never been forced to share it with law enforcement or other agencies.
ok, maybe not forced, but how about willingly compromised...or how about enforcement later on down the road ?
Jasmine L. Harris :
"There's the huge possibility that the database could be misused, and there are no protections for student privacy."
She pointed to the National Directory of New Hires, a register of people who re-enter the workforce, which began as an effort to track job trends. Since its creation, however, the database has also been used to track parents who fail to pay child support or who owe the federal government non-tax debt, she said. "The door is wide open," Ms. Harris said.
The concept that you enter a federal registry by the act of enrolling in a college in this country is frightening to us," Ms. Flanagan said.
She said that officials from some states had already announced they would like to match the data against prison records. In states where such data is already collected from public universities, she added, there has been pressure to check the school data on students against housing records, driver's licenses and employment records.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/education/29college.html?ex=1102309200&en=37aadc694fb148d0&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Texas: 28,000 chuldren e-tagged ( just like cattle ) -- Nov. 17, 2004
Note the word "control" in "control room" ... that's what this is all about
In front of her gated apartment complex, Courtney Payne, a 9-year-old fourth grader with dark hair pulled tightly into a ponytail, exits a yellow school bus.
Moments later, her movement is observed by Alan Bragg, the local police chief, standing in a windowless control room more than a mile away.
Chief Bragg is not using video surveillance. Rather, he watches an icon on a computer screen. The icon marks the spot on a map where Courtney got off the bus, and, on a larger level, it represents the latest in the convergence of technology and student security
The Spring Independent School District is equipping 28,000 students with ID badges containing computer chips that are read when the students get on and off school buses. The information is fed automatically by wireless phone to the police and school administrators.
In a variation on the concept, a Phoenix school district in November is starting a project using fingerprint technology to track when and where students get on and off buses. Last year, a charter school in Buffalo began automating attendance counts with computerized ID badges--one of the earliest examples of what educators said could become a widespread trend.
The system is set up so that when students walk in the door each morning, they pass by one of two kiosks which together cost $40,000--designed to pick up their individual radio frequency numbers as a way of taking attendance.
It's too Big Brother for me," said Kenneth Haines, a 15-year-old ninth grader who is on the football and debate teams. "Something about the school wanting to know the exact place and time makes me feel kind of like an animal."
it's all about control ....
by telling students that they are being tracked on the bus in order to get them to behave better.
"like tracking where students go after school."
too invasive... too domineering
Advocates of the technology said they did not plan to go that far. But, they said, they do see broader possibilities, such as implanting RFID tags under the skin of children to avoid problems with lost or forgotten tags. More immediately, they said, they could see using the technology to track whether students attend individual classes.
http://news.com.com/In+Texas,+28,000+students+test+e-tagging+system/2100-1039_3-5456061.html?tag=nefd.top
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/11/17/0436214.shtml?tid=158&tid=193&tid=126&tid=146&tid=17
Schoolchildren scan finger for lunch -- Sept. 19, 2004
Conditioning them for the cashless society
Scottish primary schools are set to pilot a new device that will allow children to buy their lunches with the swipe of a finger.
ADS Visual Group, hopes to target the fast- growing user-authentication device world market, predicted to be worth $2.6 billion by 2006.
Yarg Biometrics has taken thermal-scanner technology which is made in the US and morphed it into a product that can recognise a person out of a database of 5000 within seconds
Cunningham added that the invention is particularly attractive to the education sector (for which they have a patent) because the software records 25 points rather than the child’s entire fingerprint and therefore does not violate civil liberties.
( ed. note: "straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel " --Matthew 23 )
The Scottish Executive’s proposal to have cash-less systems in place for catering in Scotland’s 3000 primary schools by 2005 was the catalyst for the development.
http://www.sundayherald.com/44791 (RJ)
From birth to the draft, your child is controlled by the State
The No Child Left Behind Act, an expansive education reform bill passed two years ago, requires high schools across the country to release information about juniors and seniors to military recruiters and to give them the same access to students as college recruiters and prospective employers.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/193750_eschool05.html
Ted Kennedy's "No Child Left Behind"
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34441
Theme Parks track all patrons -- Sept. 16, 2004
Wannado City issues bands with radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology to all its patrons, according to a statement from the maker of the bands, Texas Instruments and RF Code.
Groups can easily and securely access the real-time location of their members, on a map of the park, at any time of day in English or Spanish simply by scanning their WannaFinder wristbands at any kiosk," the Texas Instruments statement said.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40472 (AT)
A watch-size location device --- worn externally --- also has debit financial transaction capabilities at amusement parks (Disneyland etc.)
TORONTO, ONTARIO - March 16, 2004 --RFID technology allows parents to locate family members easily, and eliminates necessity of carrying cash or waiting in long lines at amusement parks across North America
SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY:TSX-VEN) (“SAMSys”), an international provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) hardware solutions, today announced the successful integration of its RFID readers into The SafeTzone Technologies System, which includes a host of guest services Including Location Services, Amenity Locator, Cashless Spending Module, and a Reservation System.
http://www.samsys.com/default.php?alpha=company&beta=news&action=read§ion=pr&release=1079449567
and
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/03-16-2004/0002128949&EDATE=TUE+
Mar+16+2004,+09:47+AM
and at:
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040316.gtrfid0316/BNStory/Technology/
http://www.thrillnetwork.com/stories_view.php/205
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040316/to240_1.html
http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=5469
Schools and prisons: both tagged ( gates, clothing, bags etc.)
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/8/24/corpit/8707845&sec=corpit
Chipping our children ( Big Bro total surveillance)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/35064.html
Parents in South Korea track kids with phones-- July 29, 2004
SK Telecom Co. began selling on Wednesday colorful cellphones with antennas that look like human ears and a built in tracker using the global positioning satellite (GPS) network
The GPS technology works even when the phone is turned off.
To keep the price down, the phones do not have text messaging or Internet capabilities.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20040728/od_nm/kids_dc
Japanese tracking school children -- July 13, 2004
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. http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39122042,00.htm (alan t)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2153&ncid=2153&e=9&u=/cpress/20040928/ca_pr_on_od/japan_tagging_kids
Smart Buckle --July 20, 2004
The tag would trigger an audible warning if it detects a child is riding unbuckled in a safety seat. AirGate is an X-Change Corp. wholly owned subsidiary focused on wireless data management.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=23902345 ( paul rosen)
Truant officer chip tells when kids are not at school -- July 6, 2004
Tattle-tale tags keeps tabs ; Security, yes. Constant surveillance, no.
chip-embedded student ID cards. The cards make it easier for parents to keep tabs on their youngsters
Students scan ID cards on passing through the school entrance and the time is recorded and sent via email to their parents' mobile phones or computers, he said. Parents are also alerted if their child fails to arrive at school.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5596789
http://www.itv.com/news/1398130.html
Hand scanners to keep tabs on students --July 1, 2004
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ptech01jul01,0,7039203.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Scotland putting electronic bracelets on youths --May 25, 2004
The pilot scheme could see persistent young offenders fitted with electronic tracking devices as early as this autumn.
But the project, which is linked to the Antisocial Behaviour Bill currently going through the Scottish Parliament, has provoked opposition from civil rights campaigners.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=595412004
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=594772004
" those tagged have to stay within a set area at certain times of the day, with social workers automatically informed if they stray outside those boundaries.
Tagging systems use a transmitter, similar in size and appearance to a wristwatch, securely fitted to the offender’s ankle. A monitoring unit is installed in their home, connected to a telephone line.
The offender’s movements are then electronically monitored to ensure they adhere to their mobility restrictions. It is thought any pilot would run for at least two years, with offenders given three to six-month tagging sentences.
She said decisions to tag would be made by the council’s Children’s Panel, and said the trial - dependent on the Bill becoming law - was necessary to see how useful tagging could be.
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=537952004
Masonic CHIPS program in 7 States ID kids ( DNA ) -- May 24, 2004
Dr. David Harte, a Milton Mason who founded the program in 1998.
Bruynell's were among the estimated 14,000 children who participated yesterday [ Saturday May 22 ] in a massive, seven-state identification drive organized by the Masonic Child Identification Program, or CHIP.
With 67 participating communities, including several in and around the Boston area, the effort was touted as the largest single-day "comprehensive" child identification drive ever held in the United States.
In addition to being fingerprinted, the children were videotaped answering questions about their family, favorite hiding spots, and places they like to go after school. Dentists and dental hygenists volunteered their time, taking teeth impressions and saliva samples for DNA analysis from each child.
We've done almost 190,000 Massachusetts kids. We should pass that number today," he said of the CHIP program, sponsored by the Grand Lodge of Masons.
In addition to the sign-up drives, 43 public school systems have registered students through the program, Harte said.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/144/metro/Child_ID_system_makes_its_mark+.shtml
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/23/child_id_system_makes_its_mark/
KinderGuard--- combining GPS with Galileo
The KinderGUARD system will allow parents to track the movements of their children in real-time on the Internet. The device not only uses tracking technology to indicate the location of the wearer, it also monitors biometrics. An alarm is raised if the child leaves the area in which he or she is expected to be, if the biometric sensor indicates that the child may be in distress, or if an unauthorised person puts on the device.
Interest in the technology is not restricted entirely to the use of KinderGUARD as a child safety device. Other potential applications include national security, controlled access to key facilities (such as airports, container ports and government buildings) and access to financial services.
The personal location-based services (LBS) industry is expected to be worth EUR7.3 billion in Europe by 2005 and more than EUR5.7 billion in the US.
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story9.htm
ChildLocate
http://www.childlocate.co.uk/
Track your kid by phone
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,31500-12815572,00.html
Would a microchip keep your child safe ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3307471.stm
Phoenix Ariz. schools install facial recognition system--Dec. 12, 2003
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1211edsecurity11.html#
Three R's : Reading, Writing and RFID --October 24. 2003
Stillman has gone whole-hog for radio-frequency technology, which his year-old Enterprise Charter School started using last month to record the time of day students arrive in the morning. In the next months, he plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office. Eventually he'd like to expand the system to track students' punctuality (or lack thereof) for every class and to verify the time they get on and off school buses.
Radio-frequency identification tags -- which have been hailed as the next-generation bar code -- consist of a microchip outfitted with a tiny antenna that broadcasts an ID number to a reader unit. The reader searches a database for the number and finds the related file, which contains the tagged item's description, or in the case of Enterprise Charter, the student's information.
Unlike bar codes, which must be manually scanned, RFID-tagged items can be read when they are in proximity to a reader unit, essentially scanning themselves. The school uses passive RFID tags that are activated when radio waves from the reader reach the chip's antenna.
[ note: two different kinds of RFID tags: passive and active ]
(Active RFID tags incorporate a battery that constantly broadcasts the chip's ID number and are much more expensive.)
The charter school's 422 students wear small plastic cards around their necks that have their photograph, name and grade printed on them, and include an embedded RFID chip. As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip's signal and displays their photograph. The students touch their picture, and the time of their
entry into the building is recorded in a database. A school staffer oversees the check-in process.
The school spent $25,000 on the ID system. The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times incorporate the same Texas Instruments smart labels used in the wristbands worn by inmates at the Pima County jail in Texas. Similar wristbands are used to track wounded U.S. soldiers and POWs in Iraq and by the Magic Waters theme park in Illinois for cashless purchases.
"I think the Buffalo experiment is getting children ready for the brave new world, where people are watched 24/ 7 in the name of security,". "My main concern is that once we start carrying around RFID-tagged items on our person such as access cards, cell phones, loyalty cards, clothing, etc., we can be tracked without our knowledge or permission by a network of RFID readers attached to the Internet."
PRIVACY and the CHIP ...... http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60898,00.html
Cameras on School Buses CCTV
http://www.sd78.bc.ca/policymanual/policies/Pol%207710%20Video%20Cameras%20on%20School%20Buses.htm
Preparing School kids for 666 -- July 2003
Iris-scan for lunches
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/Buying.htm
"Smart Band"
Smart Band uses the 13.56 MHz frequency because:
(1) It can be read through the body and clothing,
(2) Fluids do not interfere with it, and
(3) 13.56 is "passive": the inlets do not require a battery and have a long shelf life.
http://www.pdcorp.com/rfid/what.html
Definition of Megahertz ... 1 million hertz
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212562,00.html
Definition of kilohertz....1 thousand hertz
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212441,00.html
Low, Intermediate and High frequencies
http://www.rfidasia.com/htmdocs/rfid_tech/carrier.htm
Masons work with police on CHIP program- Oct 25, 2002
LUNENBURG -- The town's public schools for the first time will be participating in a child-identification program offered by the local police department and the local chapter of the Freemasons of Massachusetts.
Freemasons have worked with police departments around the country to offer the so-called CHIP program,
short for Child Identification Program. It is a free service to parents of school-age children and allows the children the opportunity to be identified in case of abduction or other crime.
http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/Stories/0,1413,106%257E4994%257E948770,00.html
Using Biometrics for School Lunch
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,60342,00.html
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/01/12/front_page/WFOOD12.htm
Understanding the Times
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/understand.html
Schoolchidren to use fingerprint-scan, for lunches, attendance, doors and books
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/fingerprint_kids010118.html