[privacy] Mark of the Beast Alert: California: Raising Privacy Alarm Over RFID

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Mercury News.

[snip]

Attempting to prevent a potential clash between privacy rights and the
latest technological advances, a Palo Alto lawmaker is trying to dissuade
the state government, schools and private businesses from tracking people
through the use of radio frequency identification devices such as
electronic cards and implanted devices.

A legislative package of four measures by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto,
will be introduced in an Assembly committee today that would prohibit an
employer from implanting tiny ID chips in workers, block RFID technology
from being embedded in driver's licenses, prohibit schools from issuing ID
cards to track student attendance and make it a misdemeanor to skim
identification cards - a method by which identity thieves secretly read the
cards of unsuspecting people and clone new versions.

His measures, vociferously opposed by the tech industry, were prompted in
part by the increasing availability of wireless equipment sold in stores
and cyberspace that can read employee badges - even if they are in
someone's pocket or purse 20 feet away - and create a new card using that
individual's personal information.

[snip]

More:
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6175301

- - ferg


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