Zev Porat

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Coming to a School Near You: Orwellian-Style Surveillance for Students


Across the country, school districts are bemoaning the decline of student scholastics, the manufactured hysteria about bullying and the cutting of budgets to public school systems that already cost way to much as is. 
However, simultaneously, we are seeing an absolutely terrifying rise in Orwellian technological privacy violations in public schools.
A teenage hacker apparently hacked into the San Antonio school district’s system last week to protest the use of microchip-embedded cards that students must carry in order for the school district to track their every movement.

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