Calif. plan to ban radio tags in IDs clears hurdle
Calif. plan to ban radio tags in IDs clears hurdle[/align]Published: June 28, 2005, 3:34 PM PDT[/align]By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
A California bill that would temporarily prohibit the use of tiny radio devices in driver's licenses and other state-issued forms of identification won approval on Tuesday from the the State Assembly's Judiciary Committee in a 6-3 vote along party lines. The bill, SB 682, moves next to a floor vote in the Assembly, which last year derailed a proposal for restrictions on the conmmercial use of such devices, also known as radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips.
California Sen. Joe Simitian, a Democrat from Palo Alto, introduced the bill, called the Identity Information Protection Act of 2005, in February following public outcry over a Sutter County school's plan to outfit elementary students with ID badges containing RFID chips. The Senate approved the bill in May. It has since been signficantly amended, replacing the permanent ban with a 3-year "time-out" and allowing immediate use of the technology in certain cases.
RE: Calif. plan to ban radio tags in IDs clears hurdle
RFID tags are an EXCELLENT method to insure further identity theft. A mediocre engineer or tech with some knowlege of RF circuitry could easily hijack any info on those damn things.
We were told of the glorious boon to civilization all this "e commerce" would be and lo and behold, due to greed and outsourcing up to 25 million have their information stolen in one week.
Calif. plan to ban radio tags in IDs clears hurdle
