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Utah Leads the Way Toward RFID Privacy Legislation

Posted by michael on from the good-for-something dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired News reports that Utah's House of Representatives passed the first-ever RFID privacy bill this week, 47-23. Utah state Rep. David Hogue said that without laws to ensure consumer privacy, retailers will be tempted to match the data gathered by RFID readers with consumers' personal information. 'The RFID industry will carry the technology as far as they can,' said Hogue, sponsor of the Radio Frequency Identification Right to Know Act. 'Marketing people especially are going to love this kind of stuff.'"

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  1. hi. I'm Troy McClure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such RFID-paranoia movies as "1984 mhz" and "My Radio Receiver Knows what you Did Last Summer"

  2. Sorry, but by 2names · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one welcome our RFID tag abusing overlords.

    --
    "I'm just here to regulate funkiness."