Posted on 12/15/2006 5:00:06 AM PST by markomalley
A technology advisory panel to the Homeland Security Department has toned down its objections to radio frequency identification in the latest version of its report on the subject.
The report, “The Uses of RFID for Human Identification,” was revised at the Dec. 6 meeting of the Emerging Applications and Technology Subcommittee, which is part of the Data Privacy and Integrity Committee that advises the department.
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The new Version 3.4a states that if DHS selects RFID systems as the best available technologies to identify individuals, then privacy and information security must be built into the system in the design stage.
“We recommend that if the Department, after careful consideration of all technologies and analysis of the least intrusive means to achieve department objectives, determines to deploy an RFID-enabled system to identify individuals, that it build in, in the design stage, sufficient privacy and security safeguards,” the revised report states.
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A version of RFID is being used by the State Department in passports. Another type of RFID, which can be read at long distances of more than 30 feet, is expected to be used in new “Pass” identification cards to be issued by DHS for frequent border crossers under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
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Especially when it's real life.
Oh my God,you mean we are all going to be chipped?
I am hardly a big fan of intrusive government.
Having said that, please note the emoticon in the title.
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