[LINK] FW: California outlaws the forced subdermal RFID tagging of humans

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:09 AM 7/09/2007, Roger Clarke wrote:
>The California legislature has shown its interest in RFID privacy 
>for several years now, passing several bills that mandate privacy 
>and security requirements (link) for the technology. And 
>Californians have showed that they can cause a ruckus when RFID 
>tracking is mandated. Parents revolted back in 2005, for example, 
>when a school district in Sutter, California, required all students 
>to wear RFID badges (link) at all times.

This is good news in this last paragraph. One hopes that those 
schools considering/doing the same thing here might take heed.

Jan


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