Students in Texas to be monitored by microchip

[MineralMan]

8. More likely, the kids will hack the things

and put nekkid photos of themselves on them. I suppose this could be misused, but I don't think that's the idea. It's probably more to count the kids at school so they can send the attendance report off and get their money.

Now, if they know how long Bobbie and Kent stayed at the school dance before they left to do the nasty somewhere, which they could do with this technology, then it would be a little more intrusive. But Bobbie and Kent will just give their ID cards to someone else to hold while they slip away.

The inevitability of this kind of personal tracking stuff isn't going away, I think. Your next driver's license may have similar technology built in. You may already have credit cards in your purse or wallet with RFID chips in them. It's likely.