[Politech] PBS show about RFID, online discussion referencing Politech [priv]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 22:03:46 PDT

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    Subject: PBS show about RFID, online discussion referencing Politech
    Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:16:35 -0700
    From: Xeni Jardin <xeni@private>
    To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
    
    Hi, Declan!
    
    Quick shout to point you to this episode of the PBS TV program "California
    Connected," in which I was a guest. The show's online discussion forum
    references a politech item, and points to your list as a valued source for
    insights on RFID technology, privacy, and the law.
    
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    <http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/06/xeni_on_pbs_tv_tonig.html>
    
    On this week's edition of the PBS television program "California Connected,"
    I join host Lisa McRee with guests Beth Givens, Privacy Rights
    Clearinghouse, State Senator Debra Bowen, and Mark Roberti, RFID Journal to
    debate consumer privacy issues related to radio frequency ID tag (RFID)
    technology.
    
    There's a great online discussion salon going on concurrently, too, with
    Professor Shyam Sunder of the School of Management at Yale University, Chris
    Hoofnagle, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center,
    Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the EFF, and Dr. Daniel Engels of the MIT
    Auto-ID Labs.
    <http://bbs.californiaconnected.org/WebX?128@@.ee7c526>
    
    
         	Dubbed by one skeptical journalist as "Big Brother
    	in small packages," RFID chips are tiny transponders
    	that can be attached to almost any consumer good.
    	While companies are set to use these radio frequency
    	identification tags to track their merchandise from
    	assembly line to warehouse to store shelf, privacy
    	watchdogs suggest these same RFID tags could be used
    	to keep tabs on consumers -- beyond the confines of
    	a store or supermarket.
    
    
    Link to show home page:
    <http://www.californiaconnected.org/index.html>.
    
    Link to stations and airtimes for both the TV and radio editions of the
    show. Video will be archived online later.
    <http://www.californiaconnected.org/airtimes.html>
    
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    All best,
    
    Xeni Jardin
    
    tech journalist (NPR, Wired Magazine, Wired News, etc.)
    say: /SHEH-nee zhar-DAN/
    
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