Tracking your children with RFID chips

Jim Rapoza writes about the potential security risks of RFID chips, and discusses some of their troubling uses:

"Recently, a grade school in California tested a program in which students were required to wear badges during the day. What school administrators neglected to tell parents was that the badges contained RFID tags and were tracking students’ comings and goings throughout the school. After parents expressed their outrage, the school discontinued the test….

Readers of my columns know that I’m a big proponent of weighing potential risks versus potential rewards. So this push for RFID in so many sensitive areas of people’s lives confuses me because the risks are so high and the rewards seem so minimal."

You can read his full article at Extremetech.com.