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Monday, November 15, 2004

RFID tags on the march.
I mentioned these little devil tags in a blog a while back, wondering if the obvious benefits and yet un-imagined uses to be thought up will outweigh the privacy encroachment that is inherent in them.

Now the N.Y. Times story today, Tiny Antennas to Keep Tabs on U.S. Drugs
shows one of the many news stories that they will make this year, I bet. Tracking bulk drug shipment containers so that druggists can verify that the pills are genuine.

As someone interested in words, I do get a kick out of the NYT, obviously talking down to their readers, never mention the acronym RFID, which has been a standard term for a couple of years, at least on the internet, including the Wall-Mart plans to track inventory with RFID, and the Japanese town planning to implant schoolchildren. The Times calls them antennas (antennae?), then labels, and say, "The labels are called radio-frequency identification." but never mention RFID. Strange.

Tossed in by: R.G.B.
. . . Monday, November 15, 2004

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RFID tags on the march.