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StrangerThan -> RE: Big Brother to track your medication compliance with electronic transmitters in pills (9/10/2010 4:02:47 AM)
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The technology for much of it already exists. RFID chips are tiny and already in use. I went to a convention a couple of years ago where they were embedded in visitor badges. No one explained that until afterward. What they allowed however, was management to track which employees went to which sessions, and which just kinda fucked off.
Last I heard, several commercial ventures already had some on the shelf. The idea is they can reduce losses from theft quite a bit by embedding chips and erecting tracking devices. The trackers are supposed to be rather innocuous. I know I never noticed anything out of the ordinary at the convention. The id is sufficiently large enough to encode a chip on every grain of sand on earth. The problem with them in this context is they are simply antennas with no power source. Current has to be induced to get the thing to transmit its id, and of course, there has to be a tracking device within range to interpret it.
I hadn't heard of them until the convention, but it was kind of spooky. I've heard all kinds of speculation about them including talk of embedding them in every product produced. The concept there is that no matter where you go, the instant you walk within range of a tracking device, everything on your person can be traced back to a legal purchase. And if it can't, you potentially are a thief. Unless you steal absolutely everything, one legal purchase can enable identification through credit/debit card use.
Shrug.
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