RFID tagging really scares me
RFID tags look like the next potentially privacy invading technology we need to be careful how we implement. These are tiny microchips that can be imbedded in all kinds of things that broadcast an ID when close enough to an RFID scanner. Most commonly they�re used as the chips you can have implanted in your pets to help find them if they run away. That�s not such a bad idea, but now Wal-Mart wants to use them to track all their inventory. Michelin wants to put them into all the tires they make. The Gap wants to put them in all their jeans. This means everything you buy at Wal-Mart could forever be tracked � especially if the tag is actually in the product and not just the packaging. It also means that if you have Michelin tires, everywhere your car goes can be easily tracked. Wear the jeans and everywhere you walk can be tracked!!
If that isn�t scary enough, the Europeans want to RFID tag Euro notes! RFID tagging money really scares me. Sure, banks will be able to instantly count a vault full of money, and it might potentially really cramp Al Quaeda's style (nah, they'd find a way around it), but imagine a pickpocket with an RFID scanner sitting on a bench picking targets� Lets see, that guy only has $5, but that guy over there has $300 in his pocket!
This is a technology we really need to be careful with. BTW, speaking of technologies we need to be careful with, did the Raelians ever come forward and prove to the world whether or not they had successfully cloned a human being?? Or did the story just fade away because they refused to say?
Anyway, here�s the really good article about RFID tagging that has me so riled up�
