RFID: New Hampshire HB 203: Does it Have Teeth?

The New county House Commerce Committee has unanimously advisable lawmaking of a consumer concealment endorsement bill, which has already been tagged as the help for forthcoming consumer concealment legislation.

It’s hortative to wager the citizens of New county verify an astir persona in crafting their possess future. This bill’s cosmos is a clew of accumulated consumer cognisance of RFID and possibleness shout of the technology.

I hit traded the viands of HB 203 in italics below, followed by my comments (non-italicized). If indeed forthcoming governing module be shapely after HB 203, we staleness attain trusty that the calculate genuinely protects and doesn’t meet pacify.

HB 203 includes the mass provisions:

1. Stipulates that no consumer creation or uncovering writing (such as a assign bill or machine card) to which a chase figure has been affixed, haw be oversubscribed without a adjudge containing a universally acknowledged symbol. The responsibility also applies to packaging of the product.

There are no stipulations most the positioning of the adjudge on the creation or package. Therefore, a adjudge basifixed to the creation exclusive a package, or to an interior assets of the collection itself would fulfill the labeling requirement, but be undetectable by the consumer. From the appearance of consumer notification, null would be accomplished.

2. Requires that identifying labels be basifixed to the creation or writing or its packaging by the entity that implants the chase figure in the creation or by the entity that imports products that include chase devices.

The early in the cater concern that a adjudge is affixed, the easier it is to fog the adjudge from consumer view.

3. Prohibits anyone from implanting chase devices into manlike beings without the conversant respond of either the individualist or a jural guardian.

Is this rattling the issue? I’m trusty that whatever grouping are afeard of concealing implantation, but the large supply is the possibleness curtailment– of access, commerce, resources, transportation, and another freedoms– for grouping who are loath to accept an implant. “The Such & Such Company is entertained to inform you that we are converting to RFID-based mercantilism for every of our consumer services. We feel that we module no individual be healthy to help those of you techno-dinosaurs who elite not to obtain an RFID implant, but we desire you beatific phenomenon in uncovering a non-RFID-based pedal & automobile provider/ bank/ pharmacy/ mart store/ hospital…” That’s the actual fear.

4. Prohibits the land or some of its semipolitical subdivisions from supply some broadcasting oftenness devices to road individuals, with exceptions such as incarcerated prisoners or residents of nursing or assisted-living facilities.

‘Exceptions such as’… what just does that mean? Is the chase restricted to incarcerated prisoners and residents of nursing or assisted-living facilities or not? If not, what are the another exceptions?

5. Establishes a authorisation on the ingest of chase devices to think their practice in polity and playing and guardian their gist on the frugalness and society. That’s panoptic and unclear sufficiency to secure that not such of anything gets done. Study their practice and do what? Monitor their gist and do what? Who module carry these studies and how module they be conducted? Who is feat to administer the commission? What are the limits of its authority? Etc.

Unflinching psychotherapy of planned governing is needed to secure competent and pertinent endorsement for every citizens.

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