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The movements of a group of pupils attending a UK secondary school are being tracked via RFID in a current trial. The RFID tags allow the school’s computer system to determine whether the pupils are in the right classroom, in areas that they should not be, or not on school grounds during school hours.

While the wearing of the tags during the trial is voluntary, campaigners are already raising a commotion about human rights. What they are failing to realise is that the average child is more clued up on technology than the average adult. It’s not rocket science to figure out that if this technology becomes adopted by the nations schools, that the kids will figure ways around it, or to use it for their own benefit. Instead of getting your mates to say you were in a particular class, you give them your tag or the item of clothing that it’s attached to, and they take it into class so that the computer system will say that you were there.