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

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Tue Jul 3 13:53:15 AEST 2007


At 13:28 +1000 3/7/07, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>2) To link a previous thread, maybe you should look at using the 
>technology to "shift the balance of power" so the "bastards" are NOT 
>in control. Universal access to broadband I suspect will be a key 
>ingredient in this.

That's the David Brin 'privacy through transparency rather than 
secrecy' thesis.

It's naive, because it requires the powerful to willingly relinquish 
power.  They don't *do* that kind of thing.

http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/CACM99.html#Brin


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