Backlash against RFID is growing
The technology companies improves the ability of observation and inventory of equipment - a prospect that was for the pleasure of Wal-Mart (charts, Fortune 500), Best Buy (charts, Fortune 500), Kimberly - Clark (charts, Fortune 500 -), maker of Scott tissues and Huggies diapers-and others. A large number of high-tech firms are also behind.However, a small but growing number of public safety technology experts and some lawmakers fear uncontrolled use of RFID will lead not only to listen, falsification of documents and piracy, but also a society in which an individual is in danger of privacy and on the stage If the reading distance of objects they carry.
For these reasons, the California State Senate is mulling legislation that will prevent the use of RFID in the licensing of drivers and public schools and drag the safety standards of documents issued in the State, RFID, as well as the prohibition surreptitious advertising.
“It’s a setback,” said California State Senator Joe Simi Tian, a Democrat and a sponsor of the legislation. “Governments are growing concern at a number of reasonable privacy.”
Simi Tian, Silicon Valley is a circle and asks himself a bekennender “Booster technology-innovation”, asked the RFID technology “big”. But he readily admits that the concerns about its use. Simi Tian said he had the problem with RFID leader, they say “in the field of long-term interest” to security.
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