I was thinking a bit about RFID and personal privacy today and a simple yet powerful truth slowly dawned on me. The root of the RFID privacy issue in this country is, quite simply: You have no right to privacy, not when it comes to personal or private enterprise. The constitutional right to privacy that […]
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Well, thanks to my own lack of research on the subject, I was spouting off in complete ignorance with my last post. Shortly after publishing my off-base semi-rant, Brad Oldenburg the CTO of ShopperTrak left me a comment (see below). I guess ShopperTrak uses cameras to count people, not RFID to track tagged items going […]
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I happened to find myself in the local mall the other day and was pulled into The Gap by the horde I happened to be traveling with that day. As we were exiting, I noticed a little ShopperTrak box above the door and snapped a bad, grainy camera-phone photo of it. Usually these types of […]
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June 2005 – When did you first become aware of RFID-implant technology? Some time ago…I’d say it’s been a four or five years now. The first time I heard about it, it was the chips dogs and cats get to ID them later. I started thinking at that time about how I might use that […]
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An AP article in the WA Post (and picked up by other outlets) today detailed concerns over cancerous cells found surrounding RFID implants in lab animals. I received an email about this months ago back in May from someone concerned about this very thing, and ended up posting about it on my RFID forum because […]
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Ripped from the LA Times headlines (pdf), the article states “the bill would prevent employers in the state from requiring workers to have the [implant] devices.” First off, I agree with the bill… nobody should be able to be forced by an employer to have something implanted in their body, RFID or otherwise, to be […]
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I just finished a photo shoot with Andy Reynolds for Seattle Metropolitan magazine. He had a few ideas, but the one that was the most fun to shoot was the wheelie shot. We went just down the street from my mothers home to find a little green field to shoot in front of. I then […]
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I just read this old article about Dr. Patrick Thevissen putting an RFID implant into a live human tooth. Well, I find that interesting and I’d like to talk to him about it, but I can’t seem to track this guy down anywhere. According to the Belgium yellow pages, he doesn’t have a practice in […]
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I just had a spiffy little conversation with Courtney Nash from Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. They are really looking to focus on “the hidden geek” side of Seattle. When most people think of technology and Seattle, they think of Microsoft and the like… but there is a very geeky underground here doing pretty sweet things. My […]
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I just got off the phone with Katina Michael (University of Wollongong) after conducting a two hour interview about RFID. We covered implants, automatic identification, location based services, and biometrics… with a bit of security and privacy issues sprinkled in for flavor. Basically, this phone interview is the current state of my thoughts on these […]
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