New RFID tech would track airport passengers
The story above, posted on Friday on Cnet, is another sign that big brother is watching your movements more and more. Under the pretense of airport security, it states that within two years most airports will have all people who are in an aiport wear some kind of tag that emits a radio frequency enabling the authorities to see where you are at any point in time in the airport (known as a RFID tag).
While I am in favor of suppporting good security, this is ridiculous. What airport security breach or disaster over the last several years has been caused by not knowing where a person is at any point in time? The people who hijacked the planes that attacked New York were all captured on TV as they entered the airport and went to the gates. The problem was that nobody knew they were terrorists to begin with.
There are enough security cameras already in airports to monitor suspicious people. There is no requirement to know exactly who I am and what I am doing in the airport or any other public place.
The march of big brother with the use of RFID continues with the insertion of RFID tags in new passports in the US. As Bruce Schneier, a noted security guru notes in his most recent monthly blog http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0610.html#3, there are too many questions to be answered before the governments use RFID in their passports. His recommendation is to get a new passport without an RFID tag in your passport now before the government's around the world begin fullscale introduction of this during the coming year.
Big brother is watching and it's beginning to be too much. What do you think?
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