[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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