Embedding Their Hopes In RFID

[Baltimoreboy]

Tagging Technology Promises Efficiency but Raises Privacy Issue

By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 23, 2004; Page E01

To John Kendall, casino gambling will soon look like this:

A player sits down at a blackjack table and bets a stack of chips, which Kendall hopes are manufactured by his company, Chipco International of Raymond, Maine. Sensors trained on the betting area of the table scan tiny computer tags embedded in the chips, and electronically report the amount of the bet to a security control room.

And this...

The technology has been around for a decade -- including use in the E-ZPass system that helps speed drivers through toll booths on many East Coast highways -- but RFID is now robust enough, and getting cheap enough, that it is beginning to transform numerous sectors of the economy by allowing unparalleled tracking of products and people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62061-2004Jun22.html

Am I the only one who find this very terrifying?

[Baltimoreboy]

1. Trying to get people to read this

[Slit Skirt]

2. do you know about the VeriChip mobile

targetting young adults as being the "cool" thing to do....
http://www.adsx.com/prodservpart/verichip.html

There is a bar in Spain that uses this bio chip as a pass into their VIP room

when Wolfowitz was talking in front of the Sen ARm committee yesterday...I heard him say he wanted funds for bio chips for the Iraqi people

[Baltimoreboy]

3. I'm thinking of buying a mighty big magnet

[troublemaker]

4. That Jon Stewart joke must have really hurt someone's feelings

(that the CIA's reputation has sunk so low that psychotics no longer consider the CIA capable of having inserted a computer chip in their buttock.)

[Unperson 309]

5. Those Chips Worry the Hell Outta Me!

I hate them! Unfortunately, grocery chains are now using them along with "loyalty cards" to track purchases.

Albertson's is the closest supermarket to us and I figured we'd just try a different store, farther away... no such luck! All the major supers in town run those damned loyalty card programs! The only way to avoid them is to shop at Whole Foods or some chintzy corner bodega... at huge price markups!

Grumblegrumblegrumblegrumble!

Google "spychips" to read more about these abominations.

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