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RFID Tags in Law Enforcement

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tabs-keeping-tabs dept.

RFID tags seem to be the flavor of the month for law enforcement officials in the tracking of individuals both foreign and domestic. pin_gween writes "In an effort to speed up entry to the US, The Dept. of Homeland Security has begun a trial using RFID tags in certain visitors' papers. The tag is embedded in paperwork and "chip readers note the entry or exit of visitors who pass by and transmit that information to a government-maintained database." In addition, Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Security officials gathered Monday at a Canadian border crossing to mark the first test of this radio RFID system" Relatedly LexNaturalis writes "Wired News has an article about England testing RFID chips in license plates that can transmit VINs and other data to appropriate receivers. According to the article, the United States will be 'closely watching the British trial as they contemplate initiating their own tests of the plates, which incorporate radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags to make vehicles electronically trackable.' Naturally privacy advocates are decrying the move by stating that unlike electronic toll passes, these new plates will not be anonymous." We mentioned the concept of tracking visitors via RFID in July.

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  1. Yes. Be RFID by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be VERY RFID

  2. Lower tech approach? by KarmaBlackballed · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about a tatoo on the forehead? Or will that diminish tourism?

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  3. Track Everyone by guaigean · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not just implant them in babies at birth, in case they're kidnapped. It'll never get abused.
    /sarcasm

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  4. Re:Vehicle Tracking? by w98 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah maybe, but do you know how much it's gonna cost to keep my entire car wrapped in tinfoil?! :o)

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  5. Needs a better acronym for public relations... by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Universal
    Frequency
    Identification
    Access.

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    1. Re:Needs a better acronym for public relations... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      > Universal
      > Frequency
      > Identification
      > Access.

      They offered me an RFID chip implant. I told them where they could stick it. Then things got weird.

      (They gave it to me anyway. Boy, was I pissed!)

  6. Re:RFID in plates by Kehvarl · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would seem God isn't responding. And none of the mods care.