A recent BBC Wales News story tells how counties in North Wales are launching a scheme to provide GPS tracking of school buses and to make it available to parents. So parent will now be able to track their precious child to and from school. It’s all being rolled out in the name of reducing unruly behaviour on the buses.
The organisers Zoom say “…We don’t believe it is (spying on the children). We think it is a way of ensuring that the system works a lot better…” They also say “…The system is actually very secure. There’s no information on the (ID) cards that the pupils will be given themselves. It’s all held on a database and it’s obviously governed by data protection.”
Well that’s OK then given the UK Government’s record on securing our personal data in Government databases. As safe as houses!
