Some government officials and and other leaders experience a taste of their own medicine:
Officials who attended a world Internet and technology summit in Switzerland last week were unknowingly bugged, said researchers who attended the forum.
Badges assigned to attendees of the World Summit on the Information Society were affixed with radio-frequency identification chips (RFIDs), said Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch and George Danezis in a report issued after the conference ended Friday in Geneva. The badges were handed out to more than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level officials from 174 countries, including the United States.
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RFID chips track a person’s movement in “real time.” U.S. groups have called for a voluntary moratorium on using the chips in consumer items until the technology and its effects on privacy and civil liberties are addressed.
Guess what goes around, comes around. I don’t know if in this instance any kind of individual data was actually collected. But if the attendees were unaware of the chips, this kind of episode should make them more sensitive to privacy concerns.
Via Slashdot.