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People are destroying ID cards and building RFID blockers to avoid being spied on by governments
Talk about paranoid – netizens who are concerned about their privacy are finding ways to deliberately disable the RFID microchip within their bank cards, ID cards and passports to prevent governments from spying on them, including illegally destroying them. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips are electronic chips that come with an antenna that is able to send and receive information remotely.
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What a great way to start off the article... call your readers paranoid. I think a person is naive, foolish, and willfully ignorant if they believe that only benevolent individuals and entities will be able to access our data through the proliferation of RFID chips. Instead of paranoid, maybe the author should have said "prudent" or "cautious".