Forget about GPS, how about RF ID in your car?

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Chips could track car plates

a controversial plan to embed radiofrequency identification chips in license plates in the United Kingdom also may be coming to the United States, experts told UPI's wireless world.
The so-called E- plate, developed by the British firm Hill's Numberplates, is a license plate that also transmit a vehicle's unique identification whose output can be used locally are communicated with the distant host.
The reason for concern in the legal and privacy rights communities is that e- plates may expand the ability of police to track individuals by the movement of their vehicles.
RF ID reader can identify dozens of vehicles fitted with the plates moving at any speed at a distance of about 100 yards.

The cost of roadside readers is significant although the price per chip is estimated to be about $.20.
Some experts said governments already are using the chips embedded in tollway access cards without heed to privacy rights in Texas, for example, tollway authorities have been "making printouts of the records of every time you pass through a toll booth, what time you pass through,"


For those that do not know, RF ID is commonly used in grocery stores and is one of the many products that will send an alert if they are not deactivated when you try to leave the store. Other RF ID products admit a small frequency with a unique identifier number.