Big Brother

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun May 02, 2004 3:54 pm

Check this out...

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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McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sun May 02, 2004 4:09 pm

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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Post by **enderzero** » Sun May 02, 2004 8:37 pm

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.

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Sun May 02, 2004 9:13 pm

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!

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:26 am

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

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:33 am

Then I'll bury some of that too!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:12 pm

Beware the robots...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon May 03, 2004 2:01 pm

... 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...

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:49 pm

what? i don't get it...

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:55 pm

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

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon May 03, 2004 6:15 pm

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

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Mon May 03, 2004 7:24 pm

Wait a minute. Who said anything about robots?

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon May 03, 2004 11:47 pm

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

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