RFID Information Protection: Bill Analysis

SB 682 Senate Bill - Bill Analysis

... "Department of Homeland Security adopted the term contactless integrated circuit when it integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into its own employee IDs. Contactless integrated circuits are described as having faster processors and more storage capacity than typical RFID tags, and are engineered to transmit data only when a reader is very close, three or four inches away. The circuits' faster processing makes functions like data encryption possible. " ...