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RFID Hearing on July 14

For those of you who hold an interest in RFID technology, there's going to be a hearing tomorrow (July 14), conducted by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, entitled "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology: What the Future Holds for Commerce, Security, and the Consumer." Due to start at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Neither the committee nor the subcommittee webpages have info or submitted testimony on yet, but you might want to check in the coming days and weeks for coverage about the hearing, as well as official hearing transcripts, reports, etc.

According to the reporter I heard this from, testimony will include some major retailers (Wal-Mart, perhaps), as well as EPIC and the ACLU. Mind you, this will be going on at around the same time that the Senate will be conducting a procedural vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, so there probably won't be much coverage of the RFID hearing. Nevertheless, as they used to say, watch the skies ...