STUDENT DEFEATS SCHOOL MICROCHIPPING POLICY

Perseverance pays - helped by a school's fear of bad publicity -

 

Student aware of her rights wins against school policy of forcing students to wear microchipped locator badges.

 

A student who was expelled from her magnet school program when she refused the district’s plan to microchip students is being reinstated after the district dropped the student-tracking strategy.

 

Andrea Hernandez was defended by the Rutherford Institute against the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas.

 

Constitutional attorney and institute president John W. Whitehead said Hernandez is returning this fall to the John Jay High School’s Science and Engineering Academy. Her first day back will be Aug. 26.

 

Hernandez was expelled from the program after raising religious freedom and privacy objections to the district’s “Student Locator Project,” which used RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Tags) badges to enable officials to track students’ every move on campus.  After a long court fight, district officials announced they would stop using the RFID tracking badges. They cited low participation rates and negative publicity.

Read more - http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/student-defeats-school-district-over-microchipping/?cat_orig=education

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RELATED

RFID BADGES NOT SAFE FROM HACKING

Radio-frequency identification tags are widely deployed around the world and commonly used for building security system cards. As it turns out, those RFID security cards might not be all that secure. That is the conclusion of Francis Brown, managing partner at security firm Bishop Fox, who detailed his research on RFID hacking on July 31 at the Black Hat security conference here. In an interview with eWEEK, Brown said he started out doing his RFID research focused on a specific requirement: He needed to break in to a building.

 

Read details of RFID hacking here -

http://www.eweek.com/security/hacking-rfid-tags-is-easier-than-you-think-black-hat/

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More on the hackers' Black Hat Conference - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/hackers-black-hat-conference-their_8.html


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