Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is surveillance technology at its finest -- cheap, invisible, infallible, ubiquitous -- and privacy advocates abhor it. Silently, without even a bar code beep, RFID reads and records people's behaviour and inventories their possessions.
Benetton was the first large retailer to find out the hard way that not everyone likes being watched. In 2003, consumer outrage forced it to recall millions of garments it had embedded with microchips.
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The mark of the beast has arrived folks!
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
- Justice Louis Brandeis
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<a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550">http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550</a><p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
Having been instilled with the Ferengi model of civilisation* (Capitalism) is a wonderful opportunity for some enterprising individual to commission an anti-RFID device or devices as a counter move <br />
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*Ferengi civilisation was built on the ideals of free enterprise, where all other goals were subjugated to the pursuit of profit.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID</a><br />
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Watching the watchers is far to passive and needs to be met with active resistance by the watched, otherwise the lawyer class will drag it through the courts and the courts are really only another carnie-game where the house controls the odds. <br />
<p>---<br>We have met the enemy and he is us<br />
Pogo<br />
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.<br />
Plutarch
- Justice Louis Brandeis