[LINK] Airport to tag passengers

[Adam Todd]

At 01:48 PM 13/10/2006, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Geoffrey Ramadan wrote:
>
>>Roger Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>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" ??]
>>You could call them that if you want, but I did not say this. I was just 
>>demonstrating the similarity between tracking, non-human major assets, to 
>>what is being proposed here, and that what is being proposed is 
>>technically quite easy to do now.
>>  From a technical perspective, there is no difference.
>
>That's because what is being tracked is the device, not the thing it is 
>attached to.

People obviously haven't watched enough spy movies!

Total Recall comes to mind as the best most fun example!