Chinese schools are now tracking the exact location of their students using chip-equipped “smart uniforms” in order to encourage better attendance rates, according to a report from state-run newspaper The Global Times (via The Telegraph).
The implementation is just about as
unsettling as “using smart technology to track students’ whereabouts” sounds. Each uniform has two chips in the shoulders which are used to track when and where the students enter or exit the school, with an added dose of facial recognition software at the entrances to make sure that the right student is wearing the right outfit (so you can’t just have your friend, say, wear an extra shirt while you go off and play hooky).

Try to leave during school hours? An alarm will go off.
The uniforms are washable, too, despite the smart tech — according to the Guizhou Guanyu Technology Company, which developed the smart uniforms, each outfit can endure up to 150 degrees Celsius (302 degrees Fahrenheit) and 500 washes. There are additional features, too, according to a report from The Epoch Times: the chips can apparently detect when a student has fallen asleep in class, and allow students to make payments (using additional facial or fingerprint recognition to confirm the purchase).

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This a good development for the obvious fact that it would encourage students who skip school and lie to their parents about being in school to reconsider their ways. I used to skip school to go play with some of my buddies back when I was in JSS3. Another advantage of this chips-fitted uniforms is that it could be used to locate children wearing them if they were kidnapped because China has a growing problem of child kidnapping. On the downside, the chips could invade the privacy of the wearers in that whoever controls/monitors the exact locations of the chips could potentially do a lot of harm to any child he/she wants to harm. Most chips that track real- time locations can potentially be used to eavesdrop on people's conversations without the slightest knowledge of the people carrying such chips. All in all, I think this development has a lot of positive sides so it's a welcome development.