SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A civil liberties watchdog group is expressing concern over the San Francisco Public Library’s plans to track books by inserting computer chips into each tome.
Library officials approved a plan Thursday to install tiny radio frequency identification chips, known as RFIDs, into the roughly 2 million books, CDs and audiovisual materials patrons can borrow. The system still needs funding and wouldn’t be ready until at least 2005. [eWeek]
An interesting thought for RFID, something I personally did not even think of, but seems to make a great deal of sense considering how you can use RFIDs to manage inventory. I guess we’ll have to wait to see if privacy groups get in the way…