More coverage of last week's US House Subcommittee meeting on RFID and Privacy, this time from PC World:
Mark S. Sullivan, Medill News Service
Thursday, July 15, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The word "Orwellian" is uttered often on Capitol Hill these days, and it was said again this week in a warning of privacy dangers posed by radio frequency identification technology.
"The privacy issues raised by RFID tags are vitally important because they are representative of a larger trend in the United States--the seemingly inexorable drift toward a surveillance society," said Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among those urging caution about the technology at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on Wednesday.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116918,00.asp
Posted by holtzman at July 18, 2004 11:40 PM