RFID Tags in Euro Banknotes

psychictv writes "CNET News.com is reporting that Euro notes could be embedded with RFID tags in the future. 'RFID (radio frequency identification) tags also have the ability of recording information such as details of the transactions the paper note has been involved in...'" The EU has been considering this for a while. You'll never even know they're there.

Comments

Re:RFID tags that record?

[fataugie]

This is interesting if you think about it.

I always wondered how many crotches my singles have been in.

Really, strippers don't take quarters....

Re:Privacy

[prisoner-of-enigma]

You forget, this is dealing with the EU, which doesn't have any such pretenses towards individual freedom and privacy. This is not to say that the U.S. has a monopoly on privacy, since it's obvious that our government gets far too involved in our daily lives, but at least we have a piece of paper that says we're supposed to be free of such things. Denizens of the EU have no such equivalent, and never have. Maybe that's why they so passively accept things that would make an American go screaming to the ACLU.

Re:Some people can't spell b4 coffee

[rjamestaylor]

lobbiests ... sheesh... lobbyists

Re:Am I the only one ...

[multiplexo]

What part of "Euro Banknotes" didn't you understand? This has nothing to do with the land of the (supposedly) free, but with the union where we have mandatory ID cards, strict weapon laws and people who see black boxes in cars as a /good/ thing and don't distrust the government like the mostly paranoid americans.

Yeah, and why is it that you Euro types are such fucking sheep when it comes to trusting the government? You would think that after having three of the worst ideas in government tried out in your neighborhood in the last century, I refer to nazism, fascism and communism, that you guys might be a little more skeptical. Instead you're hellbent on building an infrastructure that would have made the German SS or the East German Stasi spooge a huge load in their tight leather trousers.

Perhaps you guys need to learn from history, or look at the big picture, or something. Bad ideas such as this, if successfully implemented, spread. I'm sure that our racist AG, John Ashcroft, would love to have something like this. Not that it would be used to track down Al Qaeda cells or the Russian Mob, no, it would be used to harass people who disagree with the Bush regime.