The government can't even claim that it's for national security. They're just using it to get the search engines to do their research for them in a way that compromises the civil liberties of other people.
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Some comments called for the inclusion of an anti-skimming device that would block unauthorized connections with the readable chip to gain access to the data. The doomsday scenario has been the ability for terrorist to drive by several cafs to find and target the most Americans in one place, ... I'm not sure how realistic that is, but when you work with these types of technologies you need to play out some of the possibilities to calm peoples' fears.
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