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Note that this of course wasn't a GPS tracker, it was a standard implantable RFID chip, as used in pets and livestock. Transmission range on it is a couple cent
by sbierwagen 10y ago
Note that this of course wasn't a GPS tracker, it was a standard implantable RFID chip, as used in pets and livestock. Transmission range on it is a couple centimeters. It can't be used to track people from a distance.
GPS trackers have big antennas and large batteries: https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Tec-STI-GL300-Portable-Tracker/dp/B00JG8KCLO/ https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Tec-STI-GL300-Portable-Tracker/dp... But if you tell your victim that a RFID chip is a GPS tracker, and they believe you, then it largely accomplishes your goals.
- rtkwe 10y agoIt's not at all surprising that the woman would believe it was a GPS tracker if told though which makes it nearly as effective as actually having a tracker implanted in her. TV and movies love their impossibly tiny GPS trackers.
- M_Grey 10y agoYeah, when you're being drugged, raped, beaten, starved, threatened with death, moved around... threats like "we put a tracking chip in you, we can find you anywhere, anytime," must be absolutely terrifying. Especially since I'm guessing the average victim of human trafficking isn't an electrical engineer.