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Does anyone see a problem with this from a privacy stand point? If a company said they were going to embed RFID tags in goods people would be up in arms. NFC
by pmorici 15y ago
Does anyone see a problem with this from a privacy stand point? If a company said they were going to embed RFID tags in goods people would be up in arms. NFC on the other hand; that is a great idea to protect the consumer. Isn't NFC just RFID by a different name and if you bought one of these products wouldn't you be accepting being tracked whenever you wore it? Seems a bit like a physical manifestation of a Facebook 'Like' button. Innocuous on the surface but designed for a whole different purpose from the get go.
- miahi 15y agoThere's an RFID tag in every Kindle. I don't see Amazon bothered by this.
- pmorici 15y agoI bet 99% of kindle owners don't know that.
- sjs 15y agoHow does one track an RFID chip? It's not a homing beacon. One would have to be constantly bumping up against readers to get that effect.
- pmorici 15y agoI don't mean track in the sense of continuously tracking location. I mean track in the sense that you could put a scanner in an entrance to a store and as you walk through the door you'd be scanned. Sort of how an Internet tracking cookie identifies a visitor.