[LINK] RFID and privacy: Debate heating up in Washington

[Roger Clarke]

Daniel Rose <drose at nla.gov.au>
>Would it be perhaps useful to have a publicly accessible rfid scanner in the
>shop, or nearby outside, like the barcode scanners which give you the price
>already used in Kmart and Target in Australia?  This would have no real
>effect on the situation per se, but it would make most people feel much more
>in control and part of the process.  Things would not be seen as so
>secretive and objections would probably have a lot more trouble getting
>"traction" with the general public.

So mere information is an acceptable substitute for consent, and 
ubiquitous surveillance and tracking is okay provided that it's been 
declared??


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn [mailto:brd at austarmetro.com.au]
>>Sent: Monday, 31 May 2004 15:19 PM
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>>Subject: [LINK] RFID and privacy: Debate heating up in Washington
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>>RFID and privacy: Debate heating up in Washington
>>Grant Gross
>>IDG News Service
>>31/05/2004 09:14:13
>>http://www.computerworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;934397095;fp;16;fpid;0
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