Library Book ID Plan Raises Concerns
From Times Wire Reports
Library officials hosted a public forum to hash out the thorny issue of radio frequency identification tags -- small, paper-thin devices known as RFIDs -- that the city librarian wants to embed in books to improve inventory control.
Critics of the idea say there are serious privacy concerns about exactly what information would be contained on the tags and how secure the devices would be. They fear third parties, hackers or the federal government might find a way to surreptitiously learn who’s reading what.
