Smart tags are back in the news

Post #109,007 by bbronson 7/10/03 11:36:05 AM Reply	Smart tags are back in the news Ok, not Microsoft's, and not a web technology: [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37144-2003Jul10.html\|Posting Prompts Complaints on Smart Tags] "The radio tag being developed by Auto-ID can help companies track their products through the supply chain so that, for instance, they know exactly when a batch has moved from the factory floor to a distributor, or when a particular store is running low." Sounds very useful in a manufacturing and supply chain environment. "The Auto-ID center has repeatedly stressed it does not intend to create technology that would be used for monitoring once a product is sold and leaves the store." Sounds like there's a lot of potential for abuse. I wonder how they propose to prevent this. Brian Bronson
Post #109,030 by scoenye 7/10/03 1:20:32 PM Reply	Easy, they won't, and then some... [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31654.html\|http://www.theregist...ent/55/31654.html] An outfit called CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) discovered the trove of marketing half-truths on the MIT Auto-ID Center Web site, available for all to see. The irony of data leakage by a group dedicated to allaying the privacy concerns of millions of people whose every possession may soon be broadcasting data indiscriminately to the world is just too tempting to be ignored. "The Auto-ID Center is the organization entrusted with developing a global Internet infrastructure for radio frequency identification. Their plans are to tag all the objects manufactured on the planet with RFID chips and track them via the Internet," CASPIAN says.
Post #109,031 by Andrew Grygus 7/10/03 1:26:10 PM Reply	Tags are now being devloped . . . . that are disabled at the checkout counter, similar to current anti-theft devices that are demagnitized at the counter. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #109,048 by Another Scott 7/10/03 2:07:28 PM Reply	Reminds me of a tiny story on Morning Edition this morning. It seems a fellow tried to shoplift/pinch/engage-in-"shrinkage"-of some clothing. He removed the theft prevention devices from the clothing successfully, but was caught when he tried to walk out of the store with the devices in his pocket... Cheers, Scott.

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