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RFID Hearing coverage

Here's a news story on the Congressional hearing held yesterday on RFID technology. No mention of library usage of RFID tags, but there was definitely talk of the privacy concerns.

If you follow debate on RFID, there wasn't much new said on Capitol Hill, but it appears that 'privacy advocates' aren't quite all on the same page:

Witnesses at the hearing disagreed about what kind of legislation is needed, however, with the Electronic Privacy Information Center calling for RFID-specific legislation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology repeating its call for general privacy legislation that would cover all kinds of technologies.