Freedom

Groups warn of Big Brother

Civil-liberty coalition promotes bill to regulate
data chip technologies such as FasTrak devices
SACRAMENTO -- Government has so much information on Californians — mostly carried on cards in their wallets and purses — that it could swiftly become something like Big Brother from novelist George Orwell's "1984" in this post-Sept. 11 world. That's the way a diverse coalition of privacy and consumer groups see it. Government and technology firms disagree. And state lawmakers have jumped into the middle with landmark legislation on "radio-frequency identification," which experts said could mushroom like the Internet. Posted by Editor at August 23, 2005 08:39 AM