Patrick Leahy: “today I outlined some of the privacy challenges we will soon face as new micro monitoring technologies begin to…”

“today I outlined some of the privacy challenges we will soon face as new micro monitoring technologies begin to proliferate in our society. I spoke in particular about breakthroughs in Radio Frequency Identification, also known as RFID. My remarks were offered at Georgetown University Law Center, during a conference on the legal and technological challenges of video surveillance. Micro monitoring is a subject that deserves the attention of the Senate and of the American people. In our post-9/11 world, technology often has been our crucial but silent partner in helping us to ramp up our law enforcement and national security capabilities. We in this city are profoundly aware of the new risks we face. But we also need to do it right. The public does not want false assurances, nor do they want to be unduly alarmed. What the American people want is to actually be safer. And we still have a way to go in accomplishing that. Tension Between Liberty And Security In our constitutional system there is always tension between liberty and security and never more so than since September 11th.”