Recently, I have been writing a lot of content about the hacktivism group Anonymous. I find them incredibly fascinating and find myself always having this internal battle asking myself if what they are doing is right. I recently located an article talking about how the group recently targeted a school to hack its official website.
Northside Indepedent School District, located in San Antonio. The school recently announced that they were going to force all students within their school district to carry Radio Frequency Identification Chips (RFID) on them at all times so that they schools can tract students for more accurate attendance figures. At first, the idea seemed like a good one until I learned the underlying issue of why they were doing this. According to their website, the school will receive more funding in future school years if they can demonstrate a superb attendance record among their students. In other words, they are using these chips to track and punish the students who skip school so they can receive more funding in the future.
Anonymous, among others, found the schools actions unethical and took down the school districts website so nobody could benefit from their services. Through their Twitter account the hacktivism group tweeted, “DOWN AND OUT – Boom, track my *ss like you track children you pervs."
On this issue, I agree 100% with what Anonymous did. I believe the school boards actions were unethical and took advantage of their students.
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