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“”You could simply put a reader device into a doorway and you would know what everyone was carrying as they walked in,” Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), said. “It would be like an electronic frisk.””

Salon.com Technology | Letters

“Show me an activist who won’t buy the $5-tagged razors in favor of $10 untagged razors and I’ll show you an activist with a trust fund. … Personally, given the trade-off between being tracked and microwaving my new shorts, I think future shopping trips will end in my kitchen. … In a country like America, “Big Brother” is effective only if we let him. Will big corporations, or the government, try to ban personal RFID detectors (as they did with radar detectors)? Perhaps. Would we let them? We’ll see. ”

Some great letters to the editor at Salon.  

RFID Journal - Power Paper Raises $15 million

“Power Paper, a Tel Aviv-based company that is developing environmentally friendly, thin-film batteries, has raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding. A flexible battery The company says it will use the money to continue to develop its flexible, thin batteries for RFID tags and smart labels. ”

The Register

” New 10,000 Yen bills (worth about £51) currently entering production are to be implanted with IC chips from Hitachi in a bid to combat counterfeiters and money launderers, according to Japanese reports relayed to us by Osaka-based Reg Reader D. Michael Ramirez. ”

The California Senate may be the first legislative body to take a hard look at the privacy implications surrounding radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This month, the Senate’s Subcommittee on Information Technology held a hearing entitled, “Who’s watching what you’re buying? RFID technology and privacy issues.” 

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BY ANDY WILLIAMS, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

A focus on securing borders is leading countries to review their official government-issued documents. Simple paper documents—the passports of old—are simply no longer adequate in this modern, post 9-11 world. This is giving rise to the inclusion of advanced identification technologies, including biometrics, PKI, and contactless chips.