Most people haven't heard of RFID chips, which can be woven into clothing or stuck invisibly on toothpaste tubes. ...Wouldn't it be a nice change if once - just once - big media outlets caught on to some corporate attack on our privacy before they also declared it too late to do anything about it?
They have one piece of information on them: a serial number.
When the RFID chip gets a certain radio signal, it perks up and sends its serial number back to the master radio, to be recorded in a database. ...
Does this mean one day some consumer product researcher could drive down your street, take a reading, and get data on all the products in your home, even the things you hide in the back of your closet?
That's what the privacy advocates fear. They want laws for the use of these chips, before they are woven into the fabric of our consumer society.
But regardless of protests, the chips are coming.
Wal-Mart has mandated that its 100 top suppliers incorporate the chips on cartons and pallets by January 2005.
The U.S. military is also going to RFID chips for its complex supply chain.
Check out StopRFID for more.
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