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Utah Leads the Way Toward RFID Privacy Legislation

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. Utah = SCO by stratjakt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Utah also leads the way toward extreme gayness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How come we aren't going to talk about that?

  4. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...now when will they outlaw Mormonism?

  5. Well, at least it's something positive this time by Trigun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They also lead the way in stupid litigation (followed closely by California)

  6. shocked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i am shocked to know there actually exist sane people in utah, what with the mormons, SCO and all

  7. Re:US Marines! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm French and I actually find myself in agreement with your sentiment.

  8. Slashdot by Ianoo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the heck have the Slashcoders done to the user info page? It looks terrible. I real improvement over the clean functional layout that was there before! Well done guys!

  9. Best part of article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The most interesting part is the where they say "...Slashdot leads the way in faggotry and paedophilia"

  10. SHUT UP SHUT THE HELL UP SHUT UP SHUT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The only thing more annoying than trolls that are beaten into the ground is morons saying "You just coined the new [random trolling phenomena], hur hur hur, DROOL, hur hur".

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  11. Re:SHUT UP SHUT THE HELL UP SHUT UP SHUT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  13. Mod me down again. by YanceyAI · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  15. That's because... by MMHere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troll bait, I know, but I couldn't resist:

    Utahians don't want retailers to know how many of their wives are buying jeans at the Gap at the same time ...

  16. What's wrong with Utah by Supp0rtLinux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on... whp in their right mind would want to move to Utah?

    They have SCO

    They have mulitple wife Mormon's

    And now they're pushing for legislation to invade our privacy

    What's wrong with these people? Is there something in the air?

    The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers

  17. Re:Is it just me... by 36526542DD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're not very familiar with the God of the Old Testament, are you? Or the New Testament for that matter.

    The issues you raise are things you'll have to take up directly with God, because I don't have the answer to his motives now, or in Old / New Testament times.

    What is clear is that God, repeatedly throughout the Old and New Testaments, at times and under circumstances of his own choosing, has chosen to "mark" or "accurse" different groups (Cain and his seed, families of the wicked (see Joshua chapter 7 about Achan and his family), the Jews for the crucifiction of the Savior, etc, etc, etc) for their actions. In most cases these marks or curses continue on to their seed until God sees fit to change it.

    There have been numerous groups in the Bible, with and without visual marks, that have been denied the gospel or the priesthood for differing periods of time.

    Yes, the blacks were not allowed to hold the priesthood until 1978. But we were not taught to shun them or be prejudiced against them in any way. They were taught the gospel and could be baptized and were welcome, as they are now.

    At no point has the LDS church taught or tolerated bigotry. You can't call us bigots, without calling God a bigot at the same time, unless you don't believe in the Old and New Testaments (or don't understand them).

    Again, an uneducated, knee-jerk reaction. You don't know what you're talking about when it comes to our beliefs and are simply regurgitating something you heard or read elsewhere, while putting no thought or energy into understanding it, only into propagating it.