[LINK] Airport to tag passengers

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Fri Oct 13 10:34:17 AEST 2006


At 10:08 +1000 13/10/06, Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>"Real Time Location Systems" (RTLS) based on ACTIVE  RFID tags is 
>nothing new, and is becoming popular to track major assets (eg in 
>hospitals).

[So airport passengers are "major assets" ??]

[It's breath-taking how readily technologists and marketers devise 
means to remove personal freedoms, reduce human beings to the level 
of mere things, and then talk about the people afflicted by their 
products as though they were factors of production, or items on an 
assets register]

[Yes, thanks Geoffrey, the follow-on email contains valuable info, 
some of which may find its way onto this page:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/PrivCorp-0609.html

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