At the request of State Senator Joe Simitian (D- Palo Alto), the California Research Bureau (CRB) at the California State Library is researching the security and privacy questions surrounding government-issued, remotely readable identification documents that make use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies. A CRB report to the legislature on this subject is due early next year.
The CRB has established an eleven-person Radio-Frequency Identification Document Advisory Panel comprised of government officials, industry representatives, and privacy rights organizations as technical consultants to assist the CRB.
The Advisory Panel will convene for their first meeting on October 31, 2007 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 500 of the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building located at 914 Capitol Mall, Sacramento.
For the full press release, please click here http://www.library.ca.gov/pressreleases/pr_071022.html.
Additional details regarding the project are available online at http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/rfidap/index.html.