Day: July 15, 2005

PC World – ‘Tracking’ Tags: Tool or Threat? For more info click on above link WASHINGTON — The word “Orwellian” is uttered often on Capitol Hill these days, and it was said again this week in a warning of privacy dangers posed by radio frequency identification technology. “The privacy issues raised by RFID tags are vitally important because they are representative of a larger trend in the United States–the seemingly inexorable drift toward a surveillance society,” said Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among those urging caution about the technology at a hearing