[LINK] RFID & Privacy

[Eric Scheid]

On 25/10/06 10:56 AM, "Geoff Ramadan" <gramadan at umd.com.au> wrote:

> Also thinking about it also protects privacy. Unless you have the database,
> the number is meaningless.

Not quite.

The AOL search logs debacle showed that if you serially identify someone,
and then track and collect information about that ID, you could infer a
great deal about the anonymous person, perhaps enough to identify them.

> Unless you have the database,
> the number is meaningless.

If you have the number, and track where that number appears, and link it to
your own database, you now have a great deal of meaning.

e.