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    Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.

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    Korea's second largest supermarket chain is counting on RFID to understand its customers a bit better.

  • Council uses RFID to go through residents' garbage

    A Sydney local council has begun utilise RFID technology to measure the effectiveness of its waste management program, but without telling its residents their bins and their contents are being tracked

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  • Ruling with open eyes and iron fist

    Cases highlighted in recent times prove that Big Brother is well and truly entering the workplace, opening up a whole new can of worms.

  • One billion passports to get biometrics, RFID by 2015

    Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.

  • Mobile phones to spy on workers?

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field -- and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Green light for e-passports

    The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.

  • Moore's law 'is biggest threat to privacy'

    Phil Zimmermann, the man who created the PGP encryption product, believes that Moore's Law and surveillance cameras make for a particularly dangerous cocktail.

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