The other month I wrote about the growth of RFID tags after the "bugs in wheelie bin" scare. At the time I said that these little tracking devices were springing up all over the place and these past two weeks have seen two news stories about some new uses of the little blighters.
In Spain, RFID microchipping, akin to the microchiping that is done on pets, is being taken up voluntarily in some bars and clubs. Apparently many clubbers are embracing the idea of being microchipped. Presumably they are drunk when they shove their arm forward for the chip injection.
Today it's been reported that the EU is expanding and trialing the use of RFID tags on all incoming flight passengers through Hungary. The tags will apparently be able to track the wearers to within a metre, and it;s being done on rather dubious grounds of increasing security from terrorism. How long before the same argument is deployed for wearing RFID tags wherever we go I wonder?
2 comments:
you can hear the jackboots.
i dunno if the 600,000 dead iraqis is true.
but even if it is ,say,50,000.does that not make bush,blair and all their cronies war criminals?
I am sure they will put RFID tags into passports and credit cards in due course, all to help track theft of course. The only issue at the moment is they cost too much; but the price will come down over time.
They are a pernicious threat that we need to keep in the public mind at all times.
Good work for highlighting this here.
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