RFID In Driver's Licenses

Lawmakers consider 'smart' driver's licenses

A controversial technology already planned for tracking consumer products could be used to create "smart" driver's licenses that emit signals readable from a distance.

Virginia Considers Using Radio Frequency ID Chips in Licenses

Virginia is considering becoming the first state to embed drivers licenses with radio frequency identification chips. The chips known as RFID chips would store detailed personal information about the individual. Yesterday during a hearing on the issue, Kent Willis of the ACLU of Virginia called on lawmakers to reject the plan because of privacy issues. He said "Almost everyone carries a driver's license, and RFID chips allow people to be tracked...FBI agents, for example, could sweep up the identities of everyone at a political meeting, protest march, gun show, or Islamic prayer service."

RFID technology continues to move toward screwing everyone over one way or another in terms of privacy. There is a whole section about RFID available on this site with lots of multimedia, links and information. I suggest getting involved locally, finding out what your state and businesses are trying to do with it, and then urging your elected monkeys to oppose the more extreme uses for this technology. A few letters and phone calls to businesses considering this stuff with words like "boycott" probably wouldn't hurt either. Let them know that you know what they know that they probably don't want you to know until it's already in place.