January 19th, 2007 by ketyung
The RFID technology has evolved into something really scary. RFID tags are now small enough to be embedded into any small objects such as passport, badges etc. Some companies are making plan to make thier employees trackable within thier building.
Even now, the barcode RFID tag can be tattooed on your body! This barcode tattoo allows you to be trackable up to a meter away and has been tested working on cows, rats, and mice etc. What’s next? Human!
Maybe one day this technology will evolve into something too common and having greater distance reach. I’m just afraid that it’d be used by some kind of extremely possessive men or women, to tattoo one on thier partners’ body and make them under thier consistent tracking, which would be called “The tattoo of real love”! Sounds scary? This is just my silly thought! Well, maybe not, for those joining the army will be asked to get a tattoo for “solidarity”!
via sci-fi tech
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February 17th, 2007 at 4:38 am
[...] RFID technology is getting more popular. As we have seen before, farmers get thier RFID tattoo on their herds for tracking and monitoring purpose etc. Employers use it in the employee’s name badge or card for tracking them. And what’s next? Someone could just sprinkle some RFID chips on you, which they’re as tiny as dust and you’d have become trackable unnoticeably. The tiniest RFID chip, at only 0.05mm square, which is now being developed by Hitachi. As shown in the picture, the right next to a human hair, is 5 microns thick, and will have a 128-bit ROM for storing a unique 38-digit ID number. [...]
March 4th, 2007 at 8:49 am
[...] I have the same feeling. Whenever I heard the latest development of RFID technology, such as used as tattoo on herds, embedded into name badges and also the tag as small as a dust particle etc. I hope all these would not lead to any abuse of this technology. One of the good use of this technology is to use it for tracking your stock if you have a big or multiple stores. One of the largest European shoe companies, Reno GmbH, is working on embedding the RFID tags into shoes that will be sold at hundred stores in Europe. The system is to be provided and implemented by Checkpoint Systems Inc, which they’re gonna supply the RFID tags and the store tracking system. [...]