[NetBehaviour] Brit License Plates Get Chipped.

[marc]

Perhaps if we can do an art project that traces the politicians 
themselves, linked via satelite - informing them on how unsafe civilians 
feel with being traced by their intrusive, draconian based technologies...

marc

> Can anyone think of any other mis-uses of license plate tracking that 
> would make politicians' blood run cold and send them running for the 
> hills. I feel that we need a bucket of cold water to throw over this 
> idea.
>
> xxr
>
>     *Brit License Plates Get Chipped.*
>
>     By Mark Baard
>
>     The British government is preparing to test new high-tech license
>     plates containing microchips capable of transmitting unique
>     vehicle identification numbers and other data to readers more than
>     300 feet away.
>
>     Officials in the United States say they'll be closely watching the
>     British trial as they contemplate initiating their own tests of
>     the plates, which incorporate radio frequency identification, or
>     RFID, tags to make vehicles electronically trackable.
>
>     We definitely have an interest in testing an RFID-tagged license
>     plate," said Jerry Dike, chairman of the American Association of
>     Motor Vehicle Administrators and director of the Vehicle Titles
>     and Registration Division of the Texas Department of Transportation.
>
>     So-called "active" RFID tags, like the one in the e-Plate made by
>     the U.K. firm Hills Numberplates, have built-in batteries,
>     allowing them to broadcast data much farther than the small
>     passive tags used to track inventory at retail stores.
>
>     Active RFID is already enjoying limited use on U.S. roadways.
>     Under a new program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is
>     issuing RFID tags to foreign freight and passenger vehicles as
>     they enter the country.
>
>     The technology is also used in electronic toll-collection systems
>     in the United States to automatically charge participating drivers
>     as they breeze past unstaffed toll booths. In the San Francisco
>     Bay Area, FasTrak toll transponders are also polled at readers
>     away from the toll booths, to determine how quickly traffic is
>     moving through particular areas.
>
>     more...
>     http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68429,00.html
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