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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I really have no reason to post this, other than I thought it was funny for a customer service person to have even an inkling of a sense of humor, and to play along… that was a priceless moment in an otherwise hectic day. ================================================== Agent: Hello, I’m a Sprint products and services online specialist. […]
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Man, I love nothing more than to come across effed up signs. Some make me angry as I spout off about how tolerant of mediocrity this country is becoming… but some make me just straight up laugh, like this one: Other signs down right scare me. I cross the Canadian border occasionally and the total […]
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For just over $100, you can go down to your local computer/consumer electronics store and pick up a nifty little Linksys IP webcam that does a fair job as an indoor security/monitoring solution. However, I ended up using one outside, mounted under the eve of my garage. The only problems I’ve seen with using the […]
Tags: cameras, motion detection
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For just about as long as I can remember, I’ve worked for myself doing my own thing. Things really started out with a company called The Guild Inc., a dial-up access company back when dial-up was cool and 28.8k modems ruled the day. I dropped out of college (don’t worry, it was only community college) […]
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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 […]
Tags: rfid, tracking
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