What's the hub-bub bub? Do you think you have privacy now? if so you are so fooling yourself. This added granularity of privacy invasion is just an evolution of what is already in place. For those of you that purchase anything from DVDs to Refrigerators look within the packaging, there will be a passive transponder albeit with an ID unique to the tag but it is unique to the manufacturer or retailer. Do you think these can't be tracked.
For those of you thinking of making foil helmets to keep the government from scanning your brains...get over it. The playing field in this new technology may be a little lopsided to begin with but as with any technology consumer products will arrive that allow the consumer to scan for RFID tags. Electronics being electronics a high power RF source will so disable this tags that it will be relatively easy to kill them.
But for you foil helmeters go, right now, and look in your DVD cases and find the 1 inch square paper thin tag that identified you as purchasing that title. Then think about your use of credit cards for any purchase, don't be so nieve.


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