What is missing is :-

- How to detect that you and your belongings are infected by these pesky devices

- How to Zap them into Oblivion (not all will fit into the venerable microwave)

- And how to stop yourself from being sued for disabling these tracking devices but agressive litigants.

Grenade - the ultimate RFID disabling device. Pity they are illegal here.

Is it society that defines the citizen or the citizens that define the society?

Many RFID tags, and indeed other traceable devices, are put their for the convenience and benefit of the manufacturer (temperature on Yoghurt is to help with supply chain management in case there is litigation later from a customer claiming food poisoning (Not our product M.Lord.. or You stored it badly...) but can be of benefit in tracking down to individual purchasing tastes. Neither of these cause me concern but the data in the wrong hands can be of immense "value" from which I derive no tangible return - indeed it costs me 'cos RFID is not without cost!

Only the customer pays - in the end - but we have no input to the process as legislators and manufacturers will decide. If mandated we can't withdraw.

Every product is required to carry a CE mark(?) and may be this is were the RFID ID tags and the like should be located so that a user - like me - can just snip it off if we don't want to be part of the system.

The only change to the law would then be the requirement to locate RFID tags in a removable position. Game over?

This should be fun for proprietary software vendors with excessive DRM.

... welcome our privacy watching overlords.

I think the first step would be banning ISP's from being able to packet sniff or profile any of your information without a court order, especially selling "sniffing spots" on their networks for rackets like Phorm - they are meant to be a gateway, if it isn't profitable being one then maybe we should nationalise our network properly and run it as an essential public service, not a luxury.

The second would be like somebody said above, making it the law to make it completely obvious what the devices are and are not doing, and not being allowed to add the catch all "these terms may be changed at any time without prior notification" to eula's etc.