http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/329/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/student_expelled_refusing_wear_rfid_tracking_chip_badge <p>Under the "Smart ID" program, ID badges have been issued with a tracking chip, which students must wear when attending school. The school badges, worn like a necklace, contain a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip and links to their social security number. This allows the school to track the student's location after leaving campus and for as long as the badge is on the student's person.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/student_expelled_refusing_wear_rfid_tracking_chip_badge#comments Education expulsion News Article public school RFID tracking Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:14:03 +0000 phonon 24589 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/questions_loom_over_federal_program_track_preschoolers <p>The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are calling for answers to critical privacy and safety questions that loom over a controversial federal program to track preschoolers with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips at George Miller III Head Start program in Richmond, California.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/questions_loom_over_federal_program_track_preschoolers#comments big brother News Article Police State RFID tracking Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:24:28 +0000 assawyer 7227 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/feds_defcon_alarmed_after_rfids_scanned <p>It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every summer in Las Vegas.</p> <p>But despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the