RFID - Finally!
Finally, someone with more exposure to the public that I get on my bandwagon about RFID chips.
Among these is Vint Cerf. He is one of the inventors of the internet and is now employed by Google as the company's internet evangelist. He told Click: "What everybody worries about is that these identifiers will be used not to keep track of the object, but of the person associated with the object and then there's a Big Brother scenario that everybody worries about. But when the economics get to the point where the readers are inexpensive and the chips are inexpensive, then you start to ask yourself who has the ability to read the chips and what do they do with the information?" (source).If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Perhaps if I worked in the inventory control line I'd have a different view, but I don't like the privacy invasion potential. No, I don't plan on doing anything evil and I have nothing to hide, but the principle of freedom is on the line here.
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