How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

Wired.com has an article about a new book on RFID titled Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID.

"A new book by privacy advocates makes the case that corporations and government agencies are in collusion to put tiny radio transmitters on nearly everything we buy…

Albrecht and McIntyre make a staggering accusation in Spychips: that Philips, Procter and Gamble, Gillette, NCR and IBM are conspiring with each other and the federal government to follow individual consumers everywhere, using embedded radio tags planted in their clothing and belongings…

In one example, Gillette vice president of global business management Dick Cantwell in quoted in a 2001 Technology Review article as saying he looks forward to the company using (RFID) readers ‘to track consumer use of its products at home.’"

Big Brother will be watching.

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