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Hi, all:
Great news! This weekend millions of Americans learned about the dangers
of RFID in driver's licenses and other identity documents, thanks to a
major story by the Associated Press.
Here is a link to the article:
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
The article is a lengthy, in-depth investigation of RFID in driver's
licenses and passports by AP reporter Todd Lewan, the same tenacious
investigator who broke the story about implanted microchips causing
cancer a few years back.
Please take the time to read the article in its entirety. It clearly
indicts the poor security on so-called "Enhanced Drivers Licenses" or
EDLs, the border-crossing ID cards that have now been issued to nearly
200,000 Americans.
As I wrote in Scientific American last fall, EDL's contain RFID tags
that can be read from 30-feet away by the government, marketers,
criminals, and anyone else with an off-the-shelf reader -- right through
a person's pocket, backpack, or purse. They can be used to track
individuals, identify them for marketing purposes, or infringe their
right to anonymously assemble and speak out against injustice.
My article can be found here:
How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People
Todd Lewan's article cites many pro-liberty folks, including Mark Lerner
of the Stop REAL-ID Coalition, Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC), security researcher Chris Paget, and yours truly.
I was thrilled to see the article appear on the Drudge Report, The New
York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, the Los
Angeles Times, Fox News, Yahoo.com, and over 450 other newspapers and
media outlets.
While EDL's are bad news, the good news is that the word is getting out.
Please help us spread it even further by posting a link to the article
on your website, blog, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg accounts and
everywhere else.
In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer PrivacyLabels: News, RFID |
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| 5:34 PM | Posted by Dave |
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