I shudder to think of what might happen when a U.S. citizen hands over an RFID-tagged passport (in its tinfoil hat!) to an immigration agent or a hotel clerk in a country not known for its civil liberties.

If you like the way Choicepoint, Lexis/Nexis and our U.S. datamongers protect your personal information, imagine trying to keep track of what happens to it in another political environment. (consider that the starting point in this analysis is the Patriot Act.)

As for the need for an optical scanner to read the thing ... does anybody believe we're going to keep the scanners out of the hands of evildoers? Jeez, we can't keep track of nukes!

RFID in passports: a bad idea whose time should never come.

You won't even need to hand it over -- one of the RFID-specific problems is that the attacker just needs physical proximity (e.g. in a crushing line at the airport...)

How are we paying for RFID's in the UK and USA.

We have been deceived by the Banks, the Media and the Government into borrowing more and more money to speculate in bricks and mortar.

For each pound you pay towards the mortgage you have to earn it and to earn it you pay 30% income tax and 11% national insurance so that Zen Labour have made an instant profit from taxes and then throws in extra tax on taxes when you pay your council tax for the new des res.

People that have been paying over the odds for a roof over their heads didn’t want their standard of living to go down and they still wanted foreign holidays and new cars so these people re-mortgaged so that their income covered the never ending taxes and bank loans paid for the good time.

This good time comes with 25 years of interest so as the economy crashes and Zen-Labour takes the blame then the next government continues to profit from this burden of tax on debt. Did anyone hear the conservatives or lib-dems telling the public about the danger of borrowing more and more or trying to help first time buyers ? didn’t think so..

You see all three main parties are in bed together playing good cop, bad cop and allowed to banks to run this scam where people could just keep borrowing because government makes even more money from the deal than banks do and the media played along doing what it’s puppet masters told it.

Where was the FSA during all this time and what was the BoE doing ? Well again they were part of the scam.

Facts are we need radical solutions to get us out this financial mess where democracy has been hijacked and our freedoms are being removed each day to safeguard our treasonous leaders from the fury of the people.

We need nothing short of a revolution so that accountable members of the public take control from our leaders as sitting back and doing nothing will only serve to see us all as prisoners in a jail that has no walls but consists of twenty million sensors around the country to detect RFID’s that will be implanted into the general public. These RFID’s will be linked to the seven million CCTV’s we already have in public spaces to ensure total enslavement of the public.

If you think this won’t happen then ask yourself what are you doing to stop this vision of the future coming true and the paradox of this all is your paying for the tools of enslavement every time you pay taxes.

[Justice, rather than feed your fears by deleting your post outright, I'll leave it as a warning to others. In both senses.

A UK financial policy drive-by post is out of place in this thread. Consider this your first (gentle) warning.

Try to do a better job of staying on topic with your next post. --NM]