brodie":1spbuf4r said:
I don't know why they had to bring religious freedom into something which seems to me to be a civil liberties issue.
When I first heard of the story, I cheered, but when I heard the whole "mark of the beast" garbage, I rolled my eyes a bit.
Agreed, but religious freedom was probably used partly because there is no civil liberties case here. RFID is short range and only readable by close contact with a reader to energize the chip. It basically just lets the school make an attendance count automatically and do basic tracking of where on the premises a student is. If its isolated to the school premises, they have the right to do what they want. Don't like it, tough nuts. The religous angle is nothing more than a tool to scare the school into abandoning RFID or allowing opt outs. These paranoid idiots who oppose RFID generally don't understand the technology and think Big Brother can pinpoint you anywhere on the globe. RFID is NOT GPS. Guess what folks, NOBODY cares about you or what you do. If they do, its either to make money by selling you crap, or you're probably on the run from the law. Its not like there's thousands of government agents sitting at computers and on a whim wanting to see what Sally is up to. Hell, you can pretty much already do that yourself. It's called Twitter and Facebook.
