Source : RFID Journal
In its present form, the bill would place a three-year moratorium on the use of RFID in identity documents issued in California, including driver’s licenses. The intent of the bill is to allow more time to develop and test exactly how the technology might be deployed. The bill would make it a crime to read data from an RFID tag in such a document surreptitiously. It would also require that tags in IDs contain only a unique identifier, rather than any personal information about the cardholder, and that this unique identifier be encrypted.

Source : The Register
No2ID has argued that the government is conducting its charm-tour in secret, refusing to reveal the locations of the roadshows stop until the day itself. Some supporters are also angry that the choice of venue has so far always put the Home Office on private property, meaning unwanted visitors can be kept out. Last week anti-ID card protesters were ejected from a shopping centre in Gateshead before Home Office Minister Andy Burnham even arrived, having fallen foul of a bylaw prohibiting the unauthorised distribution of leaflets in the centre.