Senator Patrick Leahy, speaking at Georgetown Law School, comments on his concerns that we’re entering an era of “micro-monitoring,” in which RFID will play a large part: http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200403/032304.html
“…These all raise exciting possibilities, but they also raise potentially troubling tangents. While it may be a good idea for a retailer to use RFID chips to manage its inventory, we would not want a retailer to put those tags on goods for sale without consumers’ knowledge, without knowing how to deactivate them, and without knowing what information will be collected and how it will be used. While we might want the Pentagon to be able to manage its supplies with RFID tags, we would not want an al Qaeda operative to find out about our resources by simply using a hidden RFID scanner in a war situation.”