The Police State, Take II

DHS Draft Report Says RFID Poses Privacy Risks Marc Songini June 12, 2006 The draft report had stated that while RFID is useful for tasks like inventory management, the technology should rarely be used to track people. The risks to privacy outweigh the technology's communications and security benefits, the authors said. They recommended that "RFID be disfavored for identifying and tracking human beings." [ComputerWorld]

I always find it amusing when one branch of the Federal Government issues a report that slams an adopted technology in another branch of the Federal Government. It is especially amusing when the branch that is in charge of Homeland Security is issuing a report about privacy and supporting it, while a few blocks away, the State Department is busy issuing passports loaded with RFID technology that experts have been saying since they first got wind of the program was a bad idea. Of course, if you think that State will stop issuing RFID passports, you are completely wrong.