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Re: [privacy] DHS privacy office slams RFID technology


From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:16:08 -0500

Wonder what evil Bush scheme is behind this...he must be down on RFID
for some reason!

On 5/18/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
DHS privacy office slams RFID technology
By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN Staff
05/17/06 -- 03:52 PM
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40808-1.html

The Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office has issued a draft
report from a technology analysis group that strongly criticizes the
personal privacy and security risks of using radio frequency
identification device units for human identification and says the
technology offers little performance benefit over competing methods.
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