The US Department of Homeland Security is carrying a press release detailing a US government program called US VISIT, which claims to be the centerpiece of the administrations plans to transform border management and immigration systems.

The article states:

Using an automatic identifier, RFID technology can detect a visitor at a distance (up to 100 feet) and provide primary inspection with entry information. RFID technology can also provide a mechanism for an accurate and timely record of exits without requiring visitors to interrupt their travels by stopping or even slowing down to check out.

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The article implies that the DHS are planning to give police, Federal agents and Customs and border representatives, the power to remotely scan and track citizens as they pass along selected routes, and through specified checkpoints. It is conceivable that they will simultaneously be able to obtain  information from every item or commodity that is being transported by that person, if these also have RFID chips embedded in them.

All of this additional information will no doubt prove of great value to governments worldwide, in reinforcing the mentality that they alone have the power to invade all aspects of their citizens lives, and that there is nothing ordinary folk can do about it. This despite the evidence that it is the government itself which consistently manages to remove its own misdeeds from public scrutiny, and yet brazenly demands the right to remove highly personal information from us at will.
 
Given that this is only part of a much larger security agenda (one of which the majority of people seem largely to be still unaware of), we can expect to hear much more in the days ahead about how wonderful it will be when we who "have nothing to hide"  find out what it really means to live inside the goldfish bowl of  RFID tracking and tracing.