Comments on: Getting Started with RFID http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/getting_started_with_rfid/ Nerds are for Dorks Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:15:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: John http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/getting_started_with_rfid/comment-page-1/#comment-25499 John Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:35:59 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2735#comment-25499 "Personally, I find the prospect invasive." If you don't like the prospect of someone else keeping track of what you do with their property, don't touch their property... simple as that. Stores (and anyone else) have always had the right to do just about whatever they want with their own property... they're just finding new and better ways to keep track of their stuff. Don't like it? Don't shop there. Me? I'm afraid that the tags will remain active (and monitoring will remain active) after the stuff no longer belongs to them and now belongs to me. *That's* invasive... “Personally, I find the prospect invasive.”

If you don’t like the prospect of someone else keeping track of what you do with their property, don’t touch their property… simple as that. Stores (and anyone else) have always had the right to do just about whatever they want with their own property… they’re just finding new and better ways to keep track of their stuff. Don’t like it? Don’t shop there.

Me? I’m afraid that the tags will remain active (and monitoring will remain active) after the stuff no longer belongs to them and now belongs to me. *That’s* invasive…

]]> By: Jake http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/getting_started_with_rfid/comment-page-1/#comment-25498 Jake Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:17:22 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2735#comment-25498 While RFID technology can and should be used with great benefit to keep track of inventory, it also has more questionable uses. Businesses in the future will be able to set up a sort of "GPS system" in the store to track the movement of each and every item, so marketers would be know if you pick something up, how long you hold it, whether you put it back, or keep it and use that information to further develop advertising. Personally, I find the prospect invasive. While RFID technology can and should be used with great benefit to keep track of inventory, it also has more questionable uses. Businesses in the future will be able to set up a sort of “GPS system” in the store to track the movement of each and every item, so marketers would be know if you pick something up, how long you hold it, whether you put it back, or keep it and use that information to further develop advertising. Personally, I find the prospect invasive.

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