[LINK] RFID & Privacy

[Adam Todd]

Bit like a Drivers Licence number being inserted into a Trade reference 
database.  You don't need a name, just the number.

At 02:21 PM 25/10/2006, Eric Scheid wrote:
>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.
>
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