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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier. Got a minute?

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The California state senate recently passed a bill to offer driver's licenses embedded with radio-frequency ID chips.

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It would have made California the first state bordering Mexico to offer so-called Enhanced Driver's Licenses, EDLs.

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But the state's Assembly Appropriations Committee shelved those plans.

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EDLs let you rapidly re-enter the U.S.at a land border without needing a passport.

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They're already available in Michigan, New York, Vermont and Washington.

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The California committee ostensibly put its EDL plan on ice because they didn't want to pay a few million dollars a year for it.

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Legislators favoring EDLs said they would alleviate border congestion,

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which a US-Mexico chamber of commerce member says "has reached intolerable and inhumane levels."

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Opponents objected to giving the government yet another way to track our movements.

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The RFID chip can be read dozens of feet away without an individual's knowledge or consent, according to the ACLU.

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It's another case of technology being used to offer people a tradeoff between privacy and convenience.

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One thing California's EDL plan had going for it: at least it would have been voluntary.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier.

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