April 16, 2007
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State Governments Continue on Path of Restrictive RFID Legislation
The 642,200 residents of North Dakota no longer have to lose sleep worrying about being implanted with an RFID chip against their will. This article from ComputerWorld reports that North Dakota has joined Wisconsin to become the second state to ban employers from forcing surgical insertion of RFID chips in their employees.
The ComputerWorld article also quotes Rep. Marlin Schneider, the sponsor of Wisconsin's bill, pleased with North Dakota's new law but also concerned that is does not go far enough, warning that private companies "will be able to monitor everything we buy, everywhere we go and, perhaps as these technologies develop, everything we say." Everything we say?! Since when?
Another article notes that California now has five pending RFID restriction bills, which are designed to separately reintroduce the notions proposed by state Sen. Joe Simitian and then rejected by Gov. Schwarzenegger in October of last year.
These are failures of the RFID industry to organize and mobilize in order to educate policymakers, who hold immense power to shape the industry and affect its growth. Maybe it's not possible to address representatives from each of the 50 states senates, but Simitian's district includes Silicon Valley. The industry can do better.
The ComputerWorld article also quotes Rep. Marlin Schneider, the sponsor of Wisconsin's bill, pleased with North Dakota's new law but also concerned that is does not go far enough, warning that private companies "will be able to monitor everything we buy, everywhere we go and, perhaps as these technologies develop, everything we say." Everything we say?! Since when?
Another article notes that California now has five pending RFID restriction bills, which are designed to separately reintroduce the notions proposed by state Sen. Joe Simitian and then rejected by Gov. Schwarzenegger in October of last year.
These are failures of the RFID industry to organize and mobilize in order to educate policymakers, who hold immense power to shape the industry and affect its growth. Maybe it's not possible to address representatives from each of the 50 states senates, but Simitian's district includes Silicon Valley. The industry can do better.
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