National IDs for commercial livestock?

May 4, 2003 - Privacy News

Tom Ridge, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has voiced his support of a plan that would put in place a national identification system for all commercial livestock. The plan is two to five years away, and would be expensive to implement. The impetus for such a system is to help identify vulnerabilities in the food chain.

The question not asked is that once the infrastructure is in place, how much of a leap is it to use such a system for tagging people?

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Last updated May 5, 2003