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• Europe speeds up electronic ID plans

  The EU may introduce a standard health insurance card for all member states next year, followed by passports containing a biometric ID chip.

• Radio ID chips to come with kill switch

  Manufacturers and a key industry group expect to introduce a kill switch for controversial radio frequency identification tags before the inventory-tracking chips are shipped in products to retail shelves.

• Meet the cyborgs next door

  Medical chips implanted into the human body? Privacy advocates are concerned, but such technology is already more helpful--and more common--than you might imagine.

• Endless beer on tap from smart glass

  Making the most of your time in the pub could be a lot easier in future, thanks to a smart glass that watches the level of liquid and automatically alerts the bar staff when it gets dangerously low.

• Melissa manhunt creates precedent

  The use of tracking technology to apprehend David L. Smith, the programmer charged with authoring the Melissa virus, may have created a dangerous precedent for electronic privacy, according to legal experts.

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