Preschoolers Learn About Electronic Privacy–Firsthand

September 14, 2010 at 3:03 pm PT

The latest front in the fight over electronic privacy doesn’t involve sex offenders, terrorism, or insider trading. In one California community, the battleground is preschool.

The conflict surrounds a one-year pilot program at the George Miller III Head Start center in Richmond, a suburb of San Francisco.

Funded by a $50,000 grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the program would, according to a San Jose Mercury News story here, outfit 200 preschoolers with shirts tagged with electronic locator devices, so teachers can monitor their whereabouts and, apparently, what they eat.

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