06 Sep 2017, 5:51 am
06 Sep 2017, 6:04 am
06 Sep 2017, 7:19 am
How about instead of looking at what third parties say about the bill we go look at the bill itself.
https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4919/BILLS-114hr4919rds.xml
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Shown Here:
Received in Senate (12/08/2016)
114th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4919
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 8, 2016
Received
AN ACT
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program, and to promote initiatives that will reduce the risk of injury and death relating to the wandering characteristics of some children with autism.
Received in Senate (12/08/2016)
114th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4919
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 8, 2016
Received
AN ACT
To amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Alert Program, and to promote initiatives that will reduce the risk of injury and death relating to the wandering characteristics of some children with autism.
Ah, there's that word, autism.
Could it end up as implants instead of ID cards?
Are students known for losing things ...?
Let's look at some education news and professional journals - fergit most of the mass media because of how they sensationalize.
https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/ ... -education
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"“The IoT is still very much in its infancy,” says George Siemens, the executive director of the University of Texas at Arlington’s Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Lab.
Siemens predicts the IoT will make a large impact. “The big potential for IoT lies in making the physical digital,” he says, adding that not only items, but also people can be marked and tracked digitally.
Possible IoT Applications
Automatic attendance tracking using radio frequency identification is one potential application at the K–12 level. An RFID chip could be imbedded in a student’s ID card or mobile device, and would be constantly trackable.
“We might look at how students move through the school during the day. Who do they study with? Who do they play with at recess? We might see certain groups interacting to promote better grades, or to complement their own knowledge or skill sets,” Siemens says."
Siemens predicts the IoT will make a large impact. “The big potential for IoT lies in making the physical digital,” he says, adding that not only items, but also people can be marked and tracked digitally.
Possible IoT Applications
Automatic attendance tracking using radio frequency identification is one potential application at the K–12 level. An RFID chip could be imbedded in a student’s ID card or mobile device, and would be constantly trackable.
“We might look at how students move through the school during the day. Who do they study with? Who do they play with at recess? We might see certain groups interacting to promote better grades, or to complement their own knowledge or skill sets,” Siemens says."
http://stnonline.com/news/partner-updates/item/8874-id-the-right-solution-for-student-tracking
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When Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento, California decided to become one of the first in the state to distribute RFID-enabled cards to its track its school bus riders, it soon became apparent to officials that only one solution met all requirements: CI Solutions.
The district had set out to provide RFID student tracking with another company, but the project stalled when the consultant was unable to connect its solution with the district’s GPS and routing provider.
...
“This will be a convenient way to create ridership lists and verify student attendance,” explained Shannon. “We will be able to see where they get on the bus and off along with the time. Parents will be able to log into the MyStop app on their phone or computer and see if their child was picked up or dropped off for peace of mind.”
The district had set out to provide RFID student tracking with another company, but the project stalled when the consultant was unable to connect its solution with the district’s GPS and routing provider.
...
“This will be a convenient way to create ridership lists and verify student attendance,” explained Shannon. “We will be able to see where they get on the bus and off along with the time. Parents will be able to log into the MyStop app on their phone or computer and see if their child was picked up or dropped off for peace of mind.”
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2 ... rket---Key
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Technavio has published a new report on the global student RFID tracking market from 2017-2021. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Technavio has published a new report on the global student RFID tracking market from 2017-2021. (Graphic: Business Wire)
May 24, 2017 02:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio analysts forecast the global student RFID tracking market to grow to USD 892.34 million by 2021, at a CAGR of more than 8% over the forecast period, according to their latest report.
The research study by Technavio on the global student RFID tracking market for 2017-2021 provides a detailed industry analysis based on the product type (tags, readers, and middleware), end-users (K-12 segment and higher education), and geography (North America, Europe, APAC, and ROW).
A student-tracking RFID is used to track a student. The primary objective of purchasing RFID is student security. The other factor responsible for the market growth is institutions' willingness to provide improved education to students by reducing the percentage of students not attending classes.
Technavio has published a new report on the global student RFID tracking market from 2017-2021. (Graphic: Business Wire)
May 24, 2017 02:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio analysts forecast the global student RFID tracking market to grow to USD 892.34 million by 2021, at a CAGR of more than 8% over the forecast period, according to their latest report.
The research study by Technavio on the global student RFID tracking market for 2017-2021 provides a detailed industry analysis based on the product type (tags, readers, and middleware), end-users (K-12 segment and higher education), and geography (North America, Europe, APAC, and ROW).
A student-tracking RFID is used to track a student. The primary objective of purchasing RFID is student security. The other factor responsible for the market growth is institutions' willingness to provide improved education to students by reducing the percentage of students not attending classes.
http://www.govtech.com/security/Univers ... nsors.html
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Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, will start using "proximity card readers" in some lower-division classes in fall 2010, to record student attendance, said NAU Spokesman Tom Bauer. Using $85,000 in federal stimulus funds, the university hopes such a tool will push professors to incorporate attendance in their grading systems, he said.
"I think there's a misunderstanding of what this is," Bauer said. "It's just a tool for professors to take attendance, just like a roll call would be. We're trying to dispel the notion that we're getting too close to being a 'helicopter parent'" -- moms and dads who swoop in and out to make decisions for their child.
Proximity card readers are commonplace on campus, Bauer said, and ID cards with embedded chips have been used to access resident halls, and purchase meals and other items on campus for several years. But the attendance-tracking plan, which will be used at professors' discretion -- is what has some wary of its intended or unintended uses.
"I think there's a misunderstanding of what this is," Bauer said. "It's just a tool for professors to take attendance, just like a roll call would be. We're trying to dispel the notion that we're getting too close to being a 'helicopter parent'" -- moms and dads who swoop in and out to make decisions for their child.
Proximity card readers are commonplace on campus, Bauer said, and ID cards with embedded chips have been used to access resident halls, and purchase meals and other items on campus for several years. But the attendance-tracking plan, which will be used at professors' discretion -- is what has some wary of its intended or unintended uses.
It ain't just "Merica" as some survivalists say the name.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/kolkata/t ... WSJWJ.html
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Three schools in Bengal’s districts, two of them in rural areas, have controlled the menace of truancy by employing Radio Frequency Identification tags that register presence of the students the moment they pass in front of a reader device at the gates that sends alerts to their guardians about their movement. Two schools are in the rural belts of Nadia and Bankura districts while the third one is in Burdwan town.
The cards hang from the necks of the students. All movements in and out of the gate are registered and the parents get to know it instantly. The company that has installed the technology has embellished the offering with a phone-based app that gives the details of homework for the students to the parents.
The use of RFID cards in schools, both government-funded and private, was unheard of in Bengal. The state government, however, has set up biometric attendance systems for doctors in hospitals and employees in some departments to improve attendance.
The cards hang from the necks of the students. All movements in and out of the gate are registered and the parents get to know it instantly. The company that has installed the technology has embellished the offering with a phone-based app that gives the details of homework for the students to the parents.
The use of RFID cards in schools, both government-funded and private, was unheard of in Bengal. The state government, however, has set up biometric attendance systems for doctors in hospitals and employees in some departments to improve attendance.
And there is this, which I did have to go to mass media for, but I refuse to use Fox as a reference.https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/m ... 67947.html
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Technology offers conveniences such as opening the garage door from your car or changing the television station without touching the TV.
Now one American company is offering its employees a new convenience: a microchip implanted in their hands. Employees who have these chips can do all kinds of things just by waving their hands.
Three Square Market is offering to implant microchips in all of their employees for free. Each chip costs $300 and Three Square Market will pay for the chip.
Employees can volunteer to have the chips implanted in their hands. About 50 out of 80 employees have chosen to do so. The president of the company, his wife and their children are also getting chips implanted in their hands.
The chip is about the size of a grain of rice. Implanting the chip only takes about a second and is said to hurt only very briefly. The chips go under the skin between the thumb and forefinger.
Now one American company is offering its employees a new convenience: a microchip implanted in their hands. Employees who have these chips can do all kinds of things just by waving their hands.
Three Square Market is offering to implant microchips in all of their employees for free. Each chip costs $300 and Three Square Market will pay for the chip.
Employees can volunteer to have the chips implanted in their hands. About 50 out of 80 employees have chosen to do so. The president of the company, his wife and their children are also getting chips implanted in their hands.
The chip is about the size of a grain of rice. Implanting the chip only takes about a second and is said to hurt only very briefly. The chips go under the skin between the thumb and forefinger.
And from that company's own website,
https://32market.com/public/#blog
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32M Microchips Employees Company-Wide
July 21, 2017 Leave a comment
Three Square Market will become the first U.S. company to provide implanted microchip technology to their employees.
Chip Implant to be used by 32M
Chip Implant to be used by 32M
RIVER FALLS, Wis. – July 20, 2017 – PRLog — Three Square Market (32M) is offering implanted chip technology to all of their employees on August 1st, 2017. Employees will be implanted with a RFID chip allowing them to make purchases in their break room micro market, open doors, login to computers, use the copy machine, etc. This program, offered by 32M, is optional for all employees. The company is expecting over 50 staff members to be voluntarily chipped. 32M is partnering with BioHax International and Jowan Osterland, CEO, based out of Sweden.
RFID technology or Radio-Frequency Identification uses electromagnetic fields to identify electronically stored information. Often referred to as “chip” technology, this option has become very popular in the European marketplace. The chip implant uses near-field communications (NFC); the same technology used in contactless credit cards and mobile payments. A chip is implanted between the thumb and forefinger underneath the skin within seconds.
July 21, 2017 Leave a comment
Three Square Market will become the first U.S. company to provide implanted microchip technology to their employees.
Chip Implant to be used by 32M
Chip Implant to be used by 32M
RIVER FALLS, Wis. – July 20, 2017 – PRLog — Three Square Market (32M) is offering implanted chip technology to all of their employees on August 1st, 2017. Employees will be implanted with a RFID chip allowing them to make purchases in their break room micro market, open doors, login to computers, use the copy machine, etc. This program, offered by 32M, is optional for all employees. The company is expecting over 50 staff members to be voluntarily chipped. 32M is partnering with BioHax International and Jowan Osterland, CEO, based out of Sweden.
RFID technology or Radio-Frequency Identification uses electromagnetic fields to identify electronically stored information. Often referred to as “chip” technology, this option has become very popular in the European marketplace. The chip implant uses near-field communications (NFC); the same technology used in contactless credit cards and mobile payments. A chip is implanted between the thumb and forefinger underneath the skin within seconds.
As much as I didn't want to use commercial mass media,
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microchip-employees-20170403-story.html
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What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and start-up members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
“The biggest benefit, I think, is convenience,” said Patrick Mesterton, co-founder and chief executive of Epicenter. As a demonstration, he unlocks a door merely by waving near it. “It basically replaces a lot of things you have, other communication devices, whether it be credit cards or keys.”
The technology itself is not new: Such chips are used as virtual collar plates for pets, and companies use them to track deliveries. But never before has the technology been used to tag employees on a broad scale. Epicenter and a handful of other companies are the first to make chip implants broadly available.
“The biggest benefit, I think, is convenience,” said Patrick Mesterton, co-founder and chief executive of Epicenter. As a demonstration, he unlocks a door merely by waving near it. “It basically replaces a lot of things you have, other communication devices, whether it be credit cards or keys.”
The technology itself is not new: Such chips are used as virtual collar plates for pets, and companies use them to track deliveries. But never before has the technology been used to tag employees on a broad scale. Epicenter and a handful of other companies are the first to make chip implants broadly available.
So, what may we now conclude is beyond ever being possible?
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06 Sep 2017, 7:21 am
06 Sep 2017, 7:29 am
06 Sep 2017, 7:30 am
Oh wow, look at this,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492436/
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2.5. Location-Awareness Information
Finally, it has been reported that the availability of contextual information (e.g., location, purpose of behaviour) can be incorporated with the other indicators to provide researchers with the ability to assess the indoor and outdoor location of physical activity and sedentary behaviour [23]. For instance, GPS, wearable cameras, and wireless communication technologies (UWB, RFID, Wi-Fi, etc.…) can be used for this purpose.
Finally, it has been reported that the availability of contextual information (e.g., location, purpose of behaviour) can be incorporated with the other indicators to provide researchers with the ability to assess the indoor and outdoor location of physical activity and sedentary behaviour [23]. For instance, GPS, wearable cameras, and wireless communication technologies (UWB, RFID, Wi-Fi, etc.…) can be used for this purpose.
Yeah, wearable instead of implanted, but ...... do seniors with dementia or Alzheimer's ever lose things ...?
06 Sep 2017, 7:35 am
06 Sep 2017, 8:31 am
06 Sep 2017, 10:01 am
06 Sep 2017, 10:10 am
06 Sep 2017, 11:31 am
06 Sep 2017, 11:35 am
06 Sep 2017, 12:52 pm
It's not all bad news. Imagine the fun you could have if you removed the chip and put it somewhere misleading 
But many of us already have the practical equivalent of a tracking implant. It's called Windows 10.
06 Sep 2017, 1:18 pm
ToughDiamond wrote:
But many of us already have the practical equivalent of a tracking implant. It's called Windows 10.
Ain't that the truth!
06 Sep 2017, 7:35 pm
06 Sep 2017, 7:38 pm
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