School puts RFID in Children's Backpacks for GPS Tracking

NBC Chicago - September 1, 2010

In a bid to set parents' nerves at ease, a southwest suburban school district has become one of the first in the state to begin using GPS to track schoolchildren riding buses to and from school each day.

Palos Heights School District 128 had previously been using ZPass, a GPS technology provided by Seattle-based Zonar Systems, to track the buses. But now the district is outfitting students' backpacks with a luggage tag-sized unit that logs when the student steps on and off the bus.

"A little piece of mind helps you get through the day," says Ann O'Brien, a mother of four children in Palos Heights School District 128. "They can locate kid and bus in seconds."

O'Brien says as she watched her children board and exit school buses today, with the new ZPass cards attached to their backpacks.

Full report: NBC Chicago

 

lol what the fuk happened to warrant 'GPS' technology with little kids?

man the future really is now

next, they'll be implanting shit at birth

 

That's the plan. Eventually.

 

hell if the cybernetic arms worked for Jax in Mortal Kombat, guess they'll work for me

 

Jax ain't got sh*t on what the future holds. Pretty soon, you won't be able to shit without the government knowing every detail about it.

 

SHIT, the gov already knows when you shit, it's only a matter if and when they want to know.

It starts with RFIDs and the mind reading computers, and ends with the people fighting the gov (which ironically is run by 'us'), with the final result of a "Matrix" style battle against the machines for our world (not that there is some type of alternate reality).