RFID in passports is a terrible idea, period, ... But on top of that, the State Department is acting without the appropriate authority and without conducting any form of credible cost-benefit analysis. It's asking Americans to sacrifice their safety and privacy 'up front' for a dangerous experiment that it hasn't even bothered to justify.
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The FCC's overreach is an attempt to overrule Congress's decision to exclude 'information services,' ... By mandating backdoors in any service that has the capability to replace functions provided by a telephone, the FCC has stretched the statute to the breaking point.Lee Tien
It's simply a very bad idea for privacy and for free speech for the government to design any technology, much less the Internet, to be surveillance-friendly.
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This enables the government to have a much easier time of knowing what private people are up to without any sort of process or consent.
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These laws were written some time ago. They were careful in some places and not in others.
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The Secret Service is not bound by their statement to the Washington Post. I'm not aware of any legal restraints on what they can do with the information.
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