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| RFID TrackingClick on the link at the top of this page for "Privacy RSS Feeds" and peruse some of the RFID listings.You will quickly realize that soon society will be "fully tracked". That is every product you buy (and/or carry) if not your body itself will contain a unique tracking code. Readers will be placed all over. Not just at entrances to buildings, but throughout buildings as well as other public and private facilities. Even cans of Coke will be independently tracked. Coke could potentially find out what corner of the city park most cans are consumed in. Is that reaching too far? Levis apparently did a test where they installed RFID tags in pants they sold in one area. They won't say where. Where will those tags be tracked? One thing is for sure, there are plenty of "good" uses for RFID tags. In a warehouse or package tracking situation they sure beat barcodes. Where would we be today if we couldn't track our UPS packages? What if RFID tagging made that tracking much more accurate? If everybody's house had a suitably networked reader... we could even tell when the package was misdelivered and where to! Another thing is also for sure, they will be used for invasions of privacy and tracking of people and things that serve no useful purpose for the person or thing being tracked. Even if you are "anonomously" tracked, sooner or later someone will be able to connect the anonomous tracking code to you. Additionally, when someone clones your RFID tags, you will be held responsible for all of their movements! The question is not one of what to do with RFID tags, but how to live in a full tracked society? |
| The problem is as these technologies become more in use and others like "unforgable" identification documents, security will be based on taking the technologies for granted. A terrorist will board an airplane because no one takes a second look at a document they "know" can't be "forged". You will be responsible for being somewhere a "RFID" says you were scanned. Ignoring any possiblity for errors or alternations in the database, RFID cloning, etc. Look at passports. What happens at immigration with an electronically readable passport? At best they may glimpse at your photo as they open it and swipe it in the OCR reader. With an RFID passport they might not even look at it! What will the result there be for a stolen (but unreported) passport??? At least with the old fashioned passports, an immigration agent as to look at it as long as it takes them to enter the data. The only exception I've seen with taking electronically readable passports for granted was at a rural border crossing goint into Brazil (in the Tri-Country region, that good Ole Big Brother considers a hot spot for terrorists to hang out in South America), where the sole immigration officer on post examined all documents with a large magnifying class. The point is that RFID and other technology does not actual "verify" anything for us, but rather makes us more dependent on "what" the database "says". We know how well that works from the credit bureaus. |
| What is it that you are saying? Are you saying that people are going to be tracking us by a simple coke can? If this is so, I think that is sounds a little bit ridiculous. |
| If RFID technology is used for all the good uses(like what you have mentioned about coke monitoring consumer behavior), then I see no big issue in this whole set up. Nonetheless, it is man's nature to want to put good use of some good technology a bit of a notch higher. A fully tracked society seems like a good idea but that will not mean that people will stop living their lives they way they are used to. If anything, better survival tactics will be devised. |
| This kind of surveillance technology is good in a sense that business establishments would better locate shoplifters, robbers and more of them. But it also threatens people's privacy and soon people would act in a manner not as natural as they were before, because they are aware that everywhere there are surveillance machines that sees their every move. I hate this idea. i just hope that this technology be used in a moderate and right way. |
|  "This kind of surveillance technology is good in a sense that business establishments would better locate shoplifters, robbers and more of them."Can you give any actual examples where this is successful? Just like CCTV... the more CCTV gets put up around towns... the more crime there seems to be. The simple answer is that its not the technology that will solve these social problems. But, the technology can and will create dictatorships, slowly, and surely. These will be much harder to breakdown than those of the past 20 or 30 years. |
| I am about to open a restaurant, though i have confidence over my employees, i still need to know what they are doing when they are working in there and I am at home taking care of my two cute kids. I need to know more about this RFID. It sounds good to me and i need to learn more about this technology. Please share some good insight regarding this matter. Thanks a bunch. |
| I guessing that you would be opening a small restaurant. I suggest that the RFID technology doesn't suit your business needs. Mostly RFIDs are used in stores or businesses which have a large no. of inventory to be tagged, identified and monitored. You can also use this to identify your staff's work attendance accurately, but I think it would be too expensive for your business to implement. If you're worried about your staff's work behavior, there are already a lot of easy to set CCTVs already out in the market. |
| You are guessing right? Well I must say that you have a point there Dain, but you know what, it does not matter if you have a small or big business to be able to have this kind of technology. As long as you can afford it, go for it. But I have to also suggest those CCTV's that are out in the market. Well anyway, good day guys, ciao.. |
| To George. I understand that you are being threatened about the future and how those technology would be used, right? IF only those technology would be used properly and without any bad motives then we are sure that it will serve its purpose well. It depends on how people uses technology, it is not technology that is the fault here, but the people who uses it. Have a great day guys. |
| "Bad Motives"
Since when did humans NOT use technology for bad motives? Especially when the humans form groups such as "corporations", "governments", or "mafias".The technology is the fault because it feeds and inspires the evil nature contained within humans. |
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