Tracking tags may get congressional scrutiny | CNET News.com
Senator Leahy is at least aware of some of the privacy and consumer issues, and seems to be proposing that RFID, at least as a surveillance technology, could use a little federal regulation.
"We are on the verge of a revolution in micro-monitoring--the capability for the highly detailed, largely automatic, widespread surveillance of our daily lives," Leahy said, according a transcript of the speech."RFIDs seem poised to become the catalyst that will launch the age of micro-monitoring," he added.
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