SF library wants to track books with computer chips
October 6th, 2003
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RFID chips now moving into libraries!
A civil liberties watchdog group is expressing concern over the San Francisco Public Library’s plans to track books by inserting computer chips into each tome.
They say the chips will be deactivated when they leave the library so as to prevent outside tracking, but EFF (the civil liberties group mentioned above) is concerned that reactivation will be the next social challenge. Then what happens?