What a truly repugnant idea.
The British government is preparing to test new high-tech license plates containing microchips capable of transmitting unique vehicle identification numbers and other data to readers more than 300 feet away.Officials in the United States say they'll be closely watching the British trial as they contemplate initiating their own tests of the plates, which incorporate radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags to make vehicles electronically trackable.
This is one of those things that would make privacy such a good Democratic issue. Would any resonable moderate Republican support further tramplings of privacy? I don't care what they say, 9/11 only changed everything to a certain degree.
There's a line in the sand and Democrats need to highlight it.