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echo: consprcy
to: Bob Ackley
from: George Pope
date: 2006-10-18 04:06:02
subject: RFID-tagging Passengers

On (17 Oct 06) Bob Ackley wrote to George Pope...
 BA>  GP> 2) Where's the unlawful part?
 BA>
 BA> The Constitution basically requires a warrant before government can
 BA> search
 BA> anybody - a requirement that's been eroding for decades, more rapidly
 BA> lately.
 BA> If people are RFID tagged at birth - something the government would
 BA> very much
 BA> like - they can be tracked all the way through their lives into their
 BA> coffins.
 BA> There's really no difference between requiring people to have RFID
 BA> tags embedded
 BA> in their bodies and tattooing a number on the inside of their left
 BA> forearm, and
 BA> the fact that the RFID can be read from a distance doesn't alter the
 BA> fact that doing
 BA> so is no different from stopping someone on the street and demanding
 BA> "Papers, please."

Yes, this is a fair argument against the GOVERNMENT requiring, by law,
one to have an RFID tag, but how does it speak for or against the use of
RFIDs on private property by the owners, seeking to protect themselves &
their property from known threats?

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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