RFID Technology - It's a little spooky!

RFID – by now, you’ve probably seen that acronym printed in dozens of newspaper stories, or heard it mentioned on the radio and television. RFID stands for “Radio Frequency Identification”. It’s a method whereby a very small microchip, smaller than a grain of rice – is implanted in items such as clothing, retail packaging, etc. The retail industry is very interested in utilizing this technology – it wants to use it to track inventory, shipments, sales volume and such.
It all sounds very simple and legitimate – that is, until you realize that the clothing you wear –could contain one of those devices. If so, one could be tracked, buying and spending habits recorded, etc. It all sounds too much like “Big Brother” to me. What would be next, implanting the RFID device under our skin – so that all of our medical history could be carried around with us?
It seems that for every good reason that we can be given about the use of RFID, I can come up with at least two reasons it should not be welcomed with open arms. Microsoft is quickly becoming a“player” in the field of RFID technology, and the promotion of its use. That scares me.
If you would like to learn more about RFID, just hop on over to www.aimglobal.org/and read all about it. Of course, what you learn there is exactly what the RFID industry wants you to learn. If you’d like to see some of the information provided by the opponents of RFID, take a good look atwww.spychips.com/ and, you’ll see that there is a lot of good information for their case also.
Dig a little deeper, go to google.com and type in “RFID” – you’ll find plenty of arguments in either direction. I believe that it would be fruitful for all of us to stay informed on this topic. It is not going away, and it is certainly destined to personally affect each and every one of us someday, whether we like it or not.