Schools plan to test a system that would require each student to wear an electronic beacon to track their location to within a few feet throughout the day. It will record where students sit in each classroom, show who they meet and talk to, and reveal how they gather in groups. The hope is such technology could prevent or minimize an outbreak of Covid-19, the deadly respiratory disease at the center of a global pandemic.
How do you feel about this? It would seem that the government will now be able to know more about where your kids are and who they are hanging out with more than you do. This would seem a bit too extreme in my mind. After all, it is going to cost lots of money to pay for all of these devices, and people will have to be trained on how to use the new system to track those kids.
A small but growing surveillance industry has sprung up around COVID already, with firms pitching everything from temperature-tracking infrared cameras and contact tracing apps to wireless beacons and smart cameras to help enforce social distancing at work.
How do you feel about this? It would seem that the government will now be able to know more about where your kids are and who they are hanging out with more than you do. This would seem a bit too extreme in my mind. After all, it is going to cost lots of money to pay for all of these devices, and people will have to be trained on how to use the new system to track those kids.
A small but growing surveillance industry has sprung up around COVID already, with firms pitching everything from temperature-tracking infrared cameras and contact tracing apps to wireless beacons and smart cameras to help enforce social distancing at work.
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