Calif. Senate approves electronic ID ban

A California bill that would prohibit the use of tiny radio devices in driver's licenses and other state-issued forms of identification won approval from the state's Senate this week in a 29-to-7 vote. The bill moves next to a vote in the State Assembly, which last year derailed a proposal for restrictions on the conmmercial use of such devices, also known as radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips.

California Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) introduced the Identity Information Protection Act of 2005, SB 628, in February following public outcry over a Sutter County school's plan to outfit elementary students with ID badges containing RFID chips. The proposed legislation may also put California at odds with the Real-ID Act, a new federal law that will require states to issue high-tech IDs.

SB 682

For anyone who's interested in giving the California Assembly some
feedback on this bill, it's SB 682, not 628 as reported in the story.

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Good for Calif.

We don't need RFID devices in our wallet. This is one of the more frightening things I've heard in a long time. Can you just imagine being at work with your RFID enabled wallet when someone asks "Where's Bob?" and the boss says "he's in the bathroom, stall #2, wait he just moved to stall #3. Ah, he's moving to sink #1."