[LINK] US-AMA far too complacent about human RFID tags

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Tue Jul 3 12:43:47 AEST 2007


At 12:27 +1000 3/7/07, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>As I have already commented before, I see it as inevitable. To 
>manage our growing sophisticated, complex and mobile society and 
>risks, more automated identification will become essential. It will 
>be impossible to remain anonymous.

There are willing automatons in this world who genuinely believe in 
the idea of control reducing risks, and new threats demanding ever 
more control;  just as there were people who actually enjoyed living 
in East Germany.

Okay, *you* may not suffer from your capitulation to technological 
determinism, Geoffrey, but some of us would like a future for our 
kids that avoids putting such power in the hands of whichever 
bastards are in control from time to time.


Relevant Aphorisms:

'It doesn't matter who you vote for, you always get a politician'

'Power corrupts;  absolute power corrupts absolutely'


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