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During recent years there has been increasing concern and public debate over the possibility and probability of consumers being tracked through clothes, shoes, food, and even the cash they carry in their wallets (McCullagh pp). The generic name for this technology is RFID, radio frequency identification, which are miniscule microchips that listen for a radio query and respond by transmitting their unique ID code (McCullagh pp). Most RFID tags do not have batteries and use the power from the initial radio signal to transmit their response (McCullagh pp).
RFID tag is a bar code with super powers and is used from retail warehouses to emergency rooms (Ho pp). Stores envision using the technology to track products from shipping pallets to cash registers, where customers would use it for wireless payments and physicians see new ways to instantly access lifesaving patient information (Ho pp). However, privacy advocates envision an "Orwellian" future where people will be tracked by ubiquitous RFID tags that are in everything from cars to clothes to patients' arms (Ho pp). The tags contain electronics that broadcast small bits of information, usually a number, when exposed to radio signals sent by a "reader" device, the number is linked to information in a computer system (Ho pp).
Recent uses for RFID include tagging prescription drug bottles, embedding tags in car tires, and giving them as ID badges to children in order to track when they enter and leave school buses and buildings (Ho pp). A bigger worry for privacy advocates is the plan to use them in identifying documents like driver's licenses and passports, which could be accessed by readers from dozens of feet away, including law enforcement (Ho pp). Critics claim RFID tags could be especially dangerous when used for tracking personal information because it might well end up being the identity thief's best friend (Ho pp).
Works Cited
Ho, David. "Privacy advocates wary of RFID tags." The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution. August 14, 2005. Retrieved November 01, 2005 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
McCullagh, Declan. "RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages." January 13
2003. Retrieved November 01, 2005 at http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html
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