I suspect most people do not realize what the impact of RFID will be. The technologist side of me is fascinated by it. The civil libertarian is scared senseless by it. Sadly, my own interest in it contributes ideas that I think ethically questionable. What I mean is an idea I had to embed RFID tags into license plates. Yes - your car! All cars!
The idea is that the vehicle identification number (VIN) is in the tag. That itself is nothing new. England (where they are more than happy to sacrifice liberty for perceived security), has actively been looking at this for the London tax.
My slant on it is that we have scanners in police cars. The police car sends the VINs of the cars in its proximity to its central server and continually checks the plates of all the cars near it. Rather than the officer needing to constantly check tags on his Mobile Data Terminal (MDT), the system does it for him. When it finds something like an expired tag or something more serious, it informs the officer with the specific information ("ALERT - BLUE Ford Truck Expired Tag"). Then, the officer just has to find the blue Ford truck around him and make the traffic stop. My friend, Eric Soderborg thinks I am absolutely nuts for thinking of this. Honestly, I think it would be a great system and make me millions of dollars, but at what price?
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