RFIDs: Patents Pending
posted by:Carole Lucock // 09:02 AM // July 23, 2006 //
Today's Globe and Mail contains an informative article on current and projected uses of RFID Tags. Although unlikely news to many who follow developments in the use of RFIDs, the rapidity of uptake and implementation by industry is troubling. All the more so because this is happening in a vacuum of regulation where the status quo appears to be that if you want to chip it then you can. The article refers to a fairly new Canadian RFID Centre, which ominously describes the consumer application of RFIDs as " monitor[ing] the movement of people; for example, shoplifting prevention, and electronic article surveillance."
