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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: January 13, 2003 RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages -- "Instead, in the future, we could be tracked because we'll be wearing, eating and carrying objects that are carefully designed to do so. The generic name for this technology is RFID, which stands for radio frequency identification." (Comments: RFID = Mobil SpeedPass.)
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David Brin has argued in several places that the rich and powerful can always get the personal info they want about others and therefore privacy legislation is a waste of time and the only protection is complete openness and accountability - see for example http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0004A687-58E3-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&pageNumber=1&catID=2 (PS David Brin is an award-winning science fiction author and ex-scientist whose main interest now seems to be impact of technology) Posted by: Philip Chalmers on January 16, 2003 07:02 AM
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