IC tag surveillance for children

NTT West has plans to test what Nikkei BP somewhat sloppily refers to as an IC Tag-Based Kids Recognition System:

In the experiment, the company will put an IC tag on kindergarten childrens' name tags, recognize the children using readers, and take pictures of them using a Web camera. Parents will be able to see how their children are doing at the kindergarten via the Internet. The firm will distribute name tags only to children with parents' consent. [edited slightly]

dottocomu fails to see the point of this apart from allowing morbid housewives/husbands with nothing to do to sit observing their children all day. If every time you yanked Katie's pigtail the images were beamed to your watching parents, who were waiting for you with arms folded at the gate when school finished, life wouldn't be much fun, would it?

Dispensing with the humour, we find the idea of tagging people for surveillance abhorrent and think NTT should have showed some restraint rather than tossing it off as a potential add-on for their broadband services that might help them pick up a few more subscribers. It brings to mind Jeff Goldblum's line from Jurassic Park: 'd2Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.'d3