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Comment Re:Cool! (Score 1) 102

This sure would be a nice application, but care has to be taken that your privacy doesn't get compromised.

Having all your personal data on one card you must be sure that your e.g. your library has no means to access your credit card data or your security card data without your consent.

The CIA, KGB, Police, advertisementmaketeer-next-door would probably love the idea of anyone walking around with an easy to read digital representation of his personal data on one electronic card. Don't forget, you can read data from a monitor a few rooms away just by analysing the emitted rays, so what would prevent anyone from building a scanner that reads your smartcard memory while you walk by?

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