RADIO TAGS DRESSED UP AS BIOSENSORS

The struggle over Orwellian homeland security measures is highlighted in two fascinating Wired News articles today:

* “More and more people are becoming suspicious of radio-frequency identification tags — tiny transmitters that track the whereabouts of products with stunning accuracy. So the food industry is adding biosensors to the tags in a bid to present them as terrorism-fighting tools.“
* An unusually diverse colation of Washington power players — including the NAACP, the ACLU, and the ultra-conservative Americans for Tax Reform — is working together to stop CAPPS II, the Transportation Security Administration’s controversial airline passenger screening system.

August 26th, 2003 | Uncategorized | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.