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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 20 > ID chips trigger privacy fears

ID chips trigger privacy fears

Critics call the new IDs ‘Little Brother’ and say that with better tracking technology, everyone could become a blip on a screen

By Todd Lewan / The Bulletin
July 20, 2009

Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

It took him 20 minutes....

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