SF Library Seeks Use of RFID Tracking Technology
San Francisco Library officials held a forum to allow discussion on their plans for use of �radio frequency identification� (RFID) tags as a means of improving book inventory control. If the technology is adopted they would join other large library systems using the technology. The RFID chip poses a threat to privacy because of its potential for abuse by governments, businesses, or others with reception technology capable of reading the information transmitted. Many privacy advocates are pressing for government oversight of the technology, which would be supported by privacy guidelines for the public and private sector.
Library Officials Grilled on Plan to Put Trackers in Books, USA Today, March 3, 2004
