The figures issued by Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, in a Commons written answer, also show that spending soared in the second half of last year from £25,000 a day to £63,000 a day.
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George Monbiot: When it won’t need a tyranny to deprive us of our freedom
At the end of last month, a leaked letter from Andy Burnham, the Home Office minister, revealed that the identity cards for which we will involuntarily volunteer will contain radio frequency identification chips. This will allow the authorities to read the cards with a scanner. I propose that as the technology improves, the police will be able to scan a crowd and (assuming everyone is carrying his voluntary-compulsory ID card) produce a list of whom it contains. I further propose that it will take only a year or two for this to seem reasonable.
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Washington Post: Leaving Las Vegas: So Long DefCon and Blackhat
Los Angeles-based Flexilis set the world record for transmitting data to and from a “passive” radio frequency identification (RFID) card — covering a distance of more than 69 feet.
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Posted on February 24th, 2006 at 7:56 am
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File this away for later use.
Luckily, the laws of physics can’t be repealed. Even Captain Kirk knows this deep down.
I think Muji sells some attractive ID-card sized Faraday cages.