On the RFID Toys forum, I’m always fielding questions about RFID basics and helping educate people about RFID applications. I also get a lot of questions about where to find cheap gear. I was hoping to be able to answer some of those questions by pointing people to www.ananiahelectronics.com. Will I be able to confidently […]
Tags: active rfid, review, rfid
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…when it comes to children, that’s where consent gets complicated…
Tags: law, privacy, rfid
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So many people have been asking me on the RFID Toys forum for a way to use RFID to locate things. I’ve always told them two things: 1) RFID is an identifying technology, not a tracking technology… and 2) Check out the Loc8tor, a simple RFID based direction and range finding solution… but I’d never […]
Tags: alerting, review, rfid, tracking
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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 […]
Tags: politics, privacy, rfid, tracking
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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 […]
Tags: cameras, rfid, tracking
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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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I wrote a quick article (pdf / scan) detailing my life with RFID implants for IEEE Spectrum magazine a while back and today I got my own personal print copy. I remember the photographer setting up a shoot in a church of all places to take the source photos for this article. He was a […]
Tags: implant, psychology, rfid
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I did a 5 minute interview with CBC Radio program The Current about RFID. Thought it was going to be an interesting interview about privacy, but they totally cut out everything except for the very basic details about the implant itself. The full RFID segment, which includes Canada’s privacy commissioner and a guy selling RFID, […]
Tags: interview, rfid
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I’ve been trying to track down video dubs and clips from various news segments I’ve been on. It’s either really hard to get the media to respond to you once they’ve used you up, or it’s really expensive to purchase the clips from a news monitor. Kinda lame if you ask me, but I’ve ordered […]
Tags: psychology, religion, rfid
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I just got back from Seattle Mind Camp 2.0, an amazing un-conference style gathering where chaos rules supreme and all-night werewolf sessions rage. I hosted a session about RFID, implants, security, and privacy. There were so many creative brainy types I couldn’t stop there. I scheduled another get-together with a few of them down in […]
Tags: event, fun, hack, rfid
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