Mail Call: RFiD, Big Brother's latest weapon against students
In response to Chelsea Smith's June 22 article:
Issue date: 6/23/05 Section: Opinion
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Wow, what a thoughtful idea, not like all the PTTS agents couldn't count available spots on an intermittent basis. Obviously the qualified staff should only be allowed to ticket vehicles, thereby increasing funds for tracking chips!
Besides, anecdotal monitoring of parking spaces, counting cars at the exit and entry points of parking lots, via the old school gas station 'ding-ding' pressure-lines, is so passe. We need something trendy like expensive high powered transponders in the parking permit that can be read from across the parking lot and even off campus.
Sure, money could be saved by utilizing GIS infrastructure, already used on campus, for satellite pictures of parking lots uploaded to student access servers for lot management; however it would be so much cooler to track my individual location not just on campus, but across the state!
Most assuredly, though, I wouldn't feel totally insecure with the access of this information to that only of "authorized personnel;" my privacy wouldn't ever be breached. No one would ever abuse the technology because it's more important for me to pay justifiably higher parking fees for the privilege of being the first on my block to be "chipped!"
Greg Hess
graduate student
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