How long can I check this kid out for?
Children in Osaka, Japan will now receive the same protection as the books in our higher-tech libraries. Children will be fitted with RFID chips to enable tracking them in the event of an abduction. This sounds like a noble and vital policy, but the future implications for criminal or governmental perversion of the intent of the policy are frightening.
Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips, by Jo Best, Special to CNETAsia, Monday, July 12 2004
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