I just found out today, that as of October, the USA is rolling out RFID tagged passports.
It's a chip, embedded into the passport, that has a teeny, tiny radio transponder, that sends and receives information about the item (or in this case) person holding the passport.
Includes all that pertinent data, digitized, we so love and guard.
The fundametalist religious people must just love this one!
Lots of yip yap about the wrong people getting their hands on the right equipment. All sorts f fun uses ranging form Identity fraud to kidnapping (i.e.- here comes the American, German, French, Japanese) like a red dot on a screen.
And who is really benefiting from all this? Me, the RFID tagged citizen-consumer who pays too much taxes, and whose life is regulated, and apparently going to pay pay pay?
I am trying, very hard to see the features and benefits on this new device.
2006-08-08
11:28:53
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