Monday, October 17, 2005

Issues of RFID

According to a recent article titled: 'Chip on Your Shoulder'

"Radio frequency technology offers government some breakthrough possibilities. It also scares people...

If the United States were more like Japan, it might be reasonable to predict that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) would soon be all over America’s schools and other public institutions, now that the technology is safe, reliable and relatively simple to install. But no matter how efficient RFID becomes, adoption is not going to come easily here. Almost any time the subject comes up, privacy advocates go ballistic. The Brittan School episode in California led to serious legislative proposals this year to strictly limit the use of RFID tags. California legislators argued that the tags should not be connected in any way to an identity card such as a school ID or a driver’s license."

This article is a recommended read on the multiple uses of RFID.

Personally, I am wary about the uses this technology may be appropriated for.

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