Everyone knows what those are, right? The labels that can be read and tracked; rumor had it that Wal-Mart started using them, the better to see who in the community shopped at their store? It seems odd to me to think the'd track people out in the community, but I don't shop there often enough to worry about it.
These are also in the non-hackable new passports and are a great inventory device. So great that Wired Magazine came up with a list of the top ten uses for them, including tagging Saguaro Cacti, which are frequently stolen.
Some of the other items on the list are incomprehensible to me; Japanese aren't worried about privacy and have chips everywhere. They use far more technology than I ever will, even on my best technology days. At first glance, the entry for Mexicans seems racist; however, there are a lot of kidnappings in Mexico so it would be a way of finding people and likely the wealthy would buy into it. Imagine if anyone here suggested that?
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