Monday, February 21, 2005

School nixes electronic IDs

An elementary school in the rural town of Sutter, Calif., has pulled the plug on a new student surveillance system after the technology came under fire by parents and privacy groups. Brittan Elementary School, located about 40 miles north of state capital Sacramento, is shutting off the high-tech student-tracking system because the company supplying it backed out of the deal. InCom put a kibosh on the project after some parents and a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union aired complaints at a school board meeting last week.

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