California spy-chip ID card ban?

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California spy-chip ID card ban?

P2P Net | March 3 2005

A California senator has introduced a bill aimed at banning spy chip ID cards in the state.

Joe Simitian’s SB 682 would, “would prohibit identity documents (including library cards) created, mandated, or issued by various public entities from containing a contactless integrated circuit or other device that can broadcast personal information or enable personal information to be scanned remotely”.

For “contactless integrated circuit” read RFID, a technology also called spy chips - miniature radio transmitters used for a whole range of activities from tracking inventories to keeping Mexico’s attorney general safe.

“With management moving full speed ahead to install a controversial automated checkout system at the same time it has proposed laying off 12 mostly low-level employees, privacy advocates fear Big Brother will soon be lurking behind the checkout desk and library workers are wondering if they will have a place in the fully automated library of the future,” says the Berkeley Daily Planet.

It goes on to quote library director Jackie Griffin as assuming check-out staff, “will be in low demand thanks to the introduction of Radio Frequency Identity Devices (RFID), scheduled to be implemented in July.”

Recently, parents complained children at Northern California’s Brittan Elementary School were being forced to wear ID tags carrying spy chips.

"The signals broadcast by this type of badge can be picked up by anyone with the technology to read it, which allows a child's identity and location to be pinpointed with ease,” says Pam Noles, a policy associate for the ACLU of Southern California.

“This does not increase security, it lessens it."