A Texas school district experimenting with “locator” chips in student identification cards has been sued by the family of a student, the Associated Press reports. The so-called SmartID badges allow school administrators to track students by location, but one family says the badges infringe on the student’s religious and privacy rights. According to the report, a state district judge was set to hear the case this week, but Northside Independent School District officials have asked that the case be moved to a federal court.
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