Collared?

I’ll write more about RFID tags soon, but for now, here’s a story from Wired that should give you the creeps.

RFID tags are slowly being adapted by manufactuers to track products. They’re tiny transmitters that are cheap enough to put on (or in) every item — every razor, every jar of applesauce, every CD. Marketers love them because you can see who’s doing what with your product. (Like I said, more to come on the ups and downs.)

But now comes Applied Digital Solutions, which wants to convince people to have an RFID tag put under their skin. So no matter where you went, you could be tracked. Stores would know who you were when you walked in. The police would know if you walked down a certain street.

Yikes.