2005 Pictures of the future by Siemens

Siemens AG, develops two times per year the punblication Pictures of the Future, in the last number Spring 2005, contains these issues:

Personalization: As You Like It
Remote Services: Long-Distance Vision
Elements of Life: Solutions for a Thirsty Planet

In the pages 32-33, there is an article about Personalization & Data Protection, "Trasparency, Not Surveillance".

Could radio frequency ID chips
and medical chipcards be
the
first step toward a surveillance
society? IT security experts
don’t think so. In fact,
the new technologies could go
a long way
toward providing
data availabilty while ensuring
that access is
strictly
limited to authorized users.