Privacy, and the right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure. Essentially, the Fourth Amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

The Fourth Amendment is often cited in cases of this kind -- it has been interpreted in modern times as assuring some protections against unreasonable or unjustified surveillance.

How does measuring attendance by badging in to a classroom at the beginning of the class period constitute surveillance while taking roll does not?

He's talking about the fact they are able to track where the students are "roughly" in the school, and that the RFID badges hold some personal information in them. To which, I'm not sure what kind of personally identifying information is on them other than a UUID. All speculation and snake oil

> He's talking about the fact they are able to track where the students are "roughly" in the school

Isn't that exactly what schools have always tried to do?

> and that the RFID badges hold some personal information in them

Isn't that exactly the information schools have always had?

Yes and yes. I see the issue she's having with the RFID but I also don't understand why she is having such a problem. Her phone tracks her, facebook tracks her, google, etc... it's a problem yes, but I can't do anything about it other than complain.

I think the family just wanted to get a quick window of fame and be able to tell people "Ya, we forced the HS to get rid of those RFIDs."

>Her phone tracks her, facebook tracks her, google, etc... it's a problem yes, but I can't do anything about it other than complain.

Noone is forced to use a mobile phone nor Facebook nor Google.

>I think the family just wanted to get a quick window of fame and be able to tell people "Ya, we forced the HS to get rid of those RFIDs."

Or they could, you know, care about the issues.

> Or they could, you know, care about the issues.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're teaching their daughter an important lesson in civics -- and teaching the rest of us too.

These aren't arguments that can be used to increase the level of surveillance without explicit legislation and/or an explicit ruling by a court.

Being forced to carry one probably falls under the "unreasonable search" clause of the 4th Amendment.