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.
“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 attempting to do something similar by restraining radio frequency identification — RFID — under the pretense of protecting ID privacy. The real reason for this bill is because the senator fears the same thing China did: change…”