RF ID chips privacy concerns
Jul 15th, 2009 | By Roger + Lina togetherMorning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications.
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
Embedding identity documents – passports, drivers licenses, and the like – with RFID chips is a no-brainer to government officials. Increasingly, they are promoting it as a 21st century application of technology that will help speed border crossings, safeguard credentials against counterfeiters, and keep terrorists from sneaking into the country.
But Paget’s February experiment demonstrated something privacy advocates had feared for years: That RFID, coupled with other technologies, could make people trackable without their knowledge or consent.
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