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Originally Posted by Undertoad
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EZ Pass is not RFID. EZ Pass contains a battery. If EZ Pass is RFID, then so is a cell phone and On-Star.
Meanwhile we can expand that now liberated defintion to include license plates that simply transmit passively on a different electromagnetic frequency.
RFIDs were discussed here previously in
RFID'S on February 2006.
A larger question. Who controls your identification? That is the exact same question asked in
Are you Screwed - National ID back in May 2002. If we don't demand an identify protection system that serves us, then we will end up with an identify protection system designed by government extremists to serve their interests. This same point was posted repeatedly elsewhere with further details.
Appalling are number of posts with absolutely no grasp of what RFID is or the problems associated. One so foolishly thinks RFID can locate a lost soldier. That is total ignorance of a technology that was even being used in factories in the late 1980s - even sold by (if I remember) Dallas Semiconductor.
For example, buy clothes. If an RFID tag is not disabled, then you become a target for anyone with access to simple monitoring equipment. Furthermore, you would never even know that you are talking to those you don’t want to communicate with. When do you know if that tag is disabled or not? When do you even know if the tag exists?
Currently tagging you is quite legal – not a violation of your privacy. And with a more conservative Supreme Court, any privacy protection will only diminish. This court is more often saying you have no right to privacy.
George Jr wanted to put an RFID tag inside passports. That simply makes Americans easy targets. But again, he is not interested in anything important to you. His agenda (actually Cheney's) is 'more power' for his own benefit - not yours.