On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:47:36 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Yes, this whole movement scares me and should anybody that has ever
read the book 1984.
http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/

Absolutely. The book was mildly amusing when I read it as a kid back
in the 50s or early 60s when we were still using vacuum tubes to
perform most electronic functions, and the idea of a world wide
communications network with universal connectivity would have been
regarded as science fiction material.

The social and political landscape has changed a great deal also, to
the point where some of the concepts from "1984" are beginning to
sound like a good idea to some folks.