This is old news but the implications of RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology is significant from a technological perspective. More importantly, RFID has profound implications surrounding the right to privacy. RFID tags store information and data that can be retrieved very easily. Most passports use this technology to track the identification of the individual. Easy pass uses this technology to track and bill commuters on their passage through tollbooths. Credit card companies are starting to use this technology to track consuming and shopping habits. Imagine the power advertisers will have?
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These things are one of my own personal nightmares. It's not just the power advertisers and others will have, the idea of people become chips and numbers freaks me out.
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