RE: FW: Homeland Security RFI heightens public concern over RFID

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

If that gets implemented, I'll just drive 56 MPH :-)  

First thing that would happen to these RFID chips in most cases I think would be a little shock to their system.... 
Poof, no more data coming off of my car.  It's not the governments business where or when I go anywhere.

  Like we've said before, let the polititians and government officials make use of these chips first.  AND allow any 
citizen to watch their movements on the web... We'll see how long they last when the REAL big brother (the citizens of 
not only the US but the world) watches their every move.... 


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:00 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] FW: Homeland Security RFI heightens public concern over RFID


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 2006

HOMELAND SECURITY RFI HEIGHTENS PUBLIC CONCERNS OVER RFID DHS Wants to Track
Spychips in Moving Cars Going 55 MPH

"Call it Big Brother on steroids," say privacy advocates Katherine Albrecht
and Liz McIntyre, co-authors of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and
Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for beefed up RFID
technology that can read government-issued documents from up to 25 feet
away, pinpoint pedestrians on street corners, and glean the identity of
people whizzing by in cars at 55 miles per hour.

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a controversial technology that
uses tiny microchips to track items from a distance. These RFID microchips
have earned the nickname "spychips" because each contains a unique
identification number, like a Social Security number for things, that can be
read silently and invisibly by radio waves. Privacy and civil liberties
advocates are opposed to the use of the technology on consumer items and
government documents because it can be used to track people without their
knowledge or consent.

...

A copy of the RFI is posted at the authors' website:
http://www.spychips.com/DHS-RFID.pdf

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