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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. Re:Marketing people really are awful by t_allardyce · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually your HTTP Referrer is sent by your browser by its own choice, you can turn it off, and in some browsers even have it smartly decide when to send the referrer and when to keep quiet, it can also send a 'fake' address based on the current one to allow leeching etc.

    An RFID tag on the other hand is more like a trojan condom/malware/spyware etc.

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  2. Re:Marketing people really are awful by claar · · Score: 5, Informative

    For your particular example, why not just turn off sending referrer information in your browser? The prefbar has a nice check box that lets you turn off sending referrer whenever you like.

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