He's not insane.
Most cell phones these days have an RFID chip which can be tracked by satellite. Most cars have them. Most laptops have them. Pretty soon all credit cards will have them. If your government wants to toss the constitution out the window and track the movements and converstaions of US citizens without a warrant, it is very easy to do.
GM will soon be coming out with a version of onstar where parents can track their teenage drivers on the internet..where they are, how fast they are driving etc.
Walmart uses RFID chip technology to track inventory and has chips in almost everything they sell....although the chips they use can only be tracked by a scanner at very close range.
Starbucks tried a program here in CA a couple of years ago where they put RFID scanners outside some stores that picked up chips in the phones of passers by and they received an automatic phone call telling them that Lattes were on sale or that they had fresh pumpkin muffins. The CA legislature got wind of it and passed a law banning telemarketing calls to cell phones.
RFID technology is here to stay and pretty soon we'll all have one implanted under our skin that will hold all of our medical records etc so that if we get into a car wreck or something the emergency room physician will know if you're allergic to penicinllin.
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"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
John Sawhill
Most cell phones these days have an RFID chip which can be tracked by satellite. Most cars have them. Most laptops have them. Pretty soon all credit cards will have them. If your government wants to toss the constitution out the window and track the movements and converstaions of US citizens without a warrant, it is very easy to do.
GM will soon be coming out with a version of onstar where parents can track their teenage drivers on the internet..where they are, how fast they are driving etc.
Walmart uses RFID chip technology to track inventory and has chips in almost everything they sell....although the chips they use can only be tracked by a scanner at very close range.
Starbucks tried a program here in CA a couple of years ago where they put RFID scanners outside some stores that picked up chips in the phones of passers by and they received an automatic phone call telling them that Lattes were on sale or that they had fresh pumpkin muffins. The CA legislature got wind of it and passed a law banning telemarketing calls to cell phones.
RFID technology is here to stay and pretty soon we'll all have one implanted under our skin that will hold all of our medical records etc so that if we get into a car wreck or something the emergency room physician will know if you're allergic to penicinllin.
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"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
John Sawhill