Consumer marketing applications will decimate privacy
"Radio frequency is another technology that supermarkets are already using in
a number of places throughout the store. We now envision a day where
consumers will walk into a store, select products whose packages are embedded
with small radio frequency UPC codes, and exit the store without ever going
through a checkout line or signing their name on a dotted line." 28 - Jacki
Snyder,Manager of Electronic Payments for Supervalu (Supermarkets), Inc., and
Chair, Food Marketing Institute Electronic Payments Committee
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"Analysts envision a time when the system will be used to identify and track
every item produced on the planet. 5"
[Homestead] Tracking Everything, Every Where,
bob ford, 09/19/2008