В штате Северная Дакота запрещается принудительное RFID-чипирование

Губернатор штата Северная Дакота Джон Ховен (John Hoeven) подписал закон, запрещающий принудительное RFID-чипирование людей. В прошлом году в штате Висконсин был принят аналогичный закон.

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"We need to strike a balance as we continue to develop this technology between what it can do and our civil liberties, our right to privacy," Hoeven said in an interview. He emphasized that the law doesn't prohibit voluntary chipping. Military personnel who want an RFID chip injected so they can be more easily tracked will still be allowed to get a chip. There are also potential uses for the technology in corrections or in monitoring animals, he noted.

Marlin Schneider, the who sponsored the Wisconsin law, said he is glad to see an antichipping legislation trend. However, such statutes don't go far enough to curb the ability of private sector retailers and manufacturers to "implant these things into everything we buy."

Ultimately, with RFID tagging systems, corporations "will be able to monitor everything we buy, everywhere we go and, perhaps as these technologies develop, everything we say."

But Michael Shamos, a professor who specializes in security issues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, believes the law is too vague to do much good. For instance, it only addresses situations where a chip is injected, even though RFID tags. And it doesn't clearly define what a forced implant really is; someone could make chipping a requirement for a financial reward.

"Suppose I offer to pay you $10,000 if you have an RFID [chip] implanted?" he asked. "Is that 'requiring' if it's totally voluntary on your part?"

The idea behind the law isn't bad, but "it looks hastily drawn and will have unpredictable consequences," said Shamos.
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Additionally, the California Senate approved Senate Bill 29 this week, which would prohibit California public schools, school districts and county education offices from issuing any device to a pupil that uses radio waves to transmit personal information, or to enable personal information to be viewed remotely to track attendance. The ban would remain in effect until Jan. 1, 2011. The state's assembly has not yet voted on the bill. Simitian introduced four other RFID-related bills this year: SB 28, which would prohibit the California department of motor vehicles from embedding RFID inlays in driver's licenses; SB 30, which would place restrictions on how the technology could be deployed in identification cards issued by California state, county or municipal governmental entities; and SB 31, which would make the collection of data encoded to an RFID-enabled ID, without the knowledge and consent of its owner, illegal and punishable by up to one year in county jail, a fine of up to $5,000 or both. Various committees within the Senate are set to vote on the four bills in the coming weeks.

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