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	<title>Surpriv: RFID Surveillance and Privacy</title>
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	<description>An investigation of radio-frequency identification, surveillance and privacy issues</description>
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		<title>NSF Award: &#8220;CRI: Infrastructure for Networked Sensor Information Technology&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An award for wireless sensor research: CRI: Infrastructure for Networked Sensor Information Technology:

This project, developing a series of sensor networking testbeds in New Mexico, focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks in the following applications:
-Tracking, controlling, and behavioral monitoring of livestock on rangeland, -Micro-monitoring of weather and climate on an ecological research site, -Protecting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=133</link>
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		<title>2006 Workshop on UC and RFID Today – Breakthrough or Still on Hold?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a call for papers out for a workshop to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security (ETRICS’06), June 6-9, 2006, Freiburg, German, entitled, &#8220;2006 Workshop on UC and RFID Today – Breakthrough or Still on Hold?&#8221;  http://www.etrics.org/workshop_uart.php
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		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Simitian responds to &#8220;Fearing bits that don&#8217;t bite&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to the editor, California State Senator Simitian responds to an op-ed urging no legislated restrictions on RFID for IDs in California:
Privacy safeguards
Editor &#8212; Regarding &#8220;Fearing bits that don&#8217;t bite&#8221; (Sept. 22): I was bemused that an industry lobbyist would suggest that anyone who wants to protect privacy is hostile to change. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=131</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Fearing bits that don&#8217;t bite&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Op-ed on RFID by Tim Heffernan, director of government relations and public affairs at Symbol Technologies and vice chair for the RFID working group of the Information Technology Industry Council.
&#8220;Afraid of its repercussions, China in the late 1990s severely restricted access to the Internet. With Senate Bill 768, state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=130</link>
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		<title>NSF Award: &#8220;RFID Ecosystem&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NSF award to the University of Washington, for investigation of an &#8220;RFID ecosystem&#8221;:
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0454394
Title       : CRI: RFID Ecosystem
Type        : Award
NSF Org     : CNS
Latest Amendment Date        : August 29,  2005
File   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=129</link>
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		<title>&#8220;What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?&#8221;  &#8211; Birds with Cellphones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A $200K NSF award to study giving migratory birds little birdie cell phones&#8230; a clever hack, if it works, making use of existing infrastructure to overlay new collection networks; akin to this use of cell traffic patterns to map road congestion.
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0454822
Title       : A Miniature Micropower Cell Phone for Tracking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=128</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Privacy Invasion as ROI&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AIM Global has very courteously run an essay of mine as a guest editorial, entitled, &#8220;Privacy Invasion as ROI&#8221;
It was something of a response to an article of theirs, of last year, &#8220;The ROI of Privacy Invasion,&#8221; which suggested that it would never be worth the government&#8217;s spending the money to create a &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Silicon Valley vs. RFID-Limiting Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC on lobbying to avert a ban on use of RFID in identity documents in California: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9038305/

State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, has introduced first-in-the-nation legislation that would ban for three years the use of government IDs that could be used to track the movement of California residents.
The bill, called the Identity Information Protection Act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Criticism of GAO Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government Computer News reports on industry criticism of the GAO&#8217;s recent report on RFID deployment by Federal agencies. 

Patrick Hearn, business development director for Oburthur Card Systems of Chantilly, Va., said, federal law, regulations and policies mandate many privacy and security protections for the use of smart cards in federal credentialing programs.
“The security measures—encryption and [...]]]></description>
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