Sunday, January 17, 2010

RFID - How it works (and the dangers)



- companies and the government can easily hide the RFID chips
- it is perfectly legal for a company to place an RFID tag, for eg in your shoes in between the layers
- sell that pair of shoes, and use it as a tracking device!
- people can be numbered and tracked even babies at birth could be implanted with RFID chips
- if every move that we make can be detected and logged, what would happen?
- who would hold the power?


SOLUTIONS?

- labels for products with RFID tags

But these chips are so small, how would anyone know?

Although thinking about the usefulness of this technology excites me, there are so many possibilities with this technology, it also scares me in that governments and companies could have such power.

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