US judge rules for Texas school district in RFID tracking case

Jan 13, 2013 6:13 AM

Tracking teenagers at school with high-tech chips has come to a head in Texas.

A federal judge there last week ruled against a teenager who had been suspended from high school for refusing to wear a radio frequency ID chip around her neck.

The case highlighted the intersection of technology and issues of religious and personal freedom as well as the right to privacy.

Last fall, as part of a trial that could someday include 112 schools and nearly 100,000 students, Northside Independent School District in San Antonio issued students at two of its campuses new badges with an embedded RFID chip in order to track their locations.

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