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RFID

Short for radio frequency identification, a technology similar in theory to bar code identification.

A measure by Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) to set privacy standards for the use of RFID (define) in stores and libraries passed the California Senate on a 22-8 vote Thursday.

Privacy advocates fear RFID will become as omnipresent as video surveillance and give marketers an even more sophisticated way to track people's whereabouts, interests and habits.

RFID technology gives the store -- and anyone else with an RFID reader -- the ability to collect that type of information, assuming a person's clothing and items in their wallet or purse have RFID chips embedded in them, tie it to their name, and build personal profiles on just about anyone," Bowen said.

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RFID-enabled pallets started arriving Friday at retail giant Wal-Mart's distribution centers in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro region as manufacturers began field tests for their radio frequency identification initiative.

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This technology is here no mater what so if strict privacy guidelines can be put in place now (just to be disregarded by the govt. later) then it could be used for responsibly.

Is this the tech that will let you throw an RFID tag on your wallet, keys, pi... other things you might lose, and then use a detector to find it under the couch? I can dig that.

I'm going to go dig a hole in the woods and fill it up with canned food. Then I'm going to surround it with an array of traps to keep sigma team out of there. That way when the RFID-enabled robots take over and start hunting down consumers and forcing them to buy products which may be of interest to them based on the profile these robots have generated, I'll be ready!

I'm going to try and market beer as cough syrup...

Then I'll bury some of that too!

Beware the robots...

... those robots can just take Rixler's spinning arrows and stick them up their... errr... in their... well.... Maybe Rixler can make us some magic saline solution arrows that will short out the robots, when they stick them in their...

what? i don't get it...

Maybe that's because you are one of the robots...

I see...ok...yeah...

Wait a minute. Who said anything about robots?

... arrows... Rixler must be going crazy... Have Zorak call the men... the men with the rusty metal..