To follow up on our previous story regarding RFID tags being the Mark of the Beast, it looks like evangelicals will have to wait just a little longer for the Rapture, since their good friends at the ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center have successfully helped concerned parents keep their children from being tagged and tracked via RFID technology.
It seems that under pressure from parent groups and the above privacy and civil liberties advocates, InCom, the company who were providing the technology behind the project, have decided to pull out of their agreement with the school. Considering that the Sutter area is largely rural, we're sure that they'll have a brisk business in tagging local livestock. Brittan Elementary school had already relaxed the rules, not enforcing the ID card requirement and disabling the tracking devices within the school. Next time they should probably frame their arguments and present them to the parents instead of just implementing the policy without telling anyone as the did on January 18th.
Image of RFID-chipped cow from ComputerWorld.