RFID - Pros and Cons
By rb77
 | Amazon Price: $53.00 List Price: $160.00 |
 | Amazon Price: $29.94 List Price: $39.99 |
 | Amazon Price: $84.19 List Price: $160.00 |
 | Amazon Price: $5.95 List Price: $13.99 |
RFID - Pros
The technology used in RFID has been around since the early 1920s. Similar technology, such as the IFF transponder invented by the United Kingdom in 1939, was routinely used by the allies in World War II to identify aircraft as friend or foe. Transponders are still used by military and commercial aircraft to this day.
RFID tags come in three general varieties:- passive, active, or semi-passive (also known as battery-assisted). Passive tags require no internal power source, thus being pure passive devices (they are only active when a reader is nearby to power them), whereas semi-passive and active tags require a power source, usually a small battery.
There are three different kinds of RFID tags based on their attachment with identified objects, attachable, implantable and insertion tags . In addition to these conventional RFID tags, Eastman Kodak Company has filed two patent applications for monitoring ingestion of medicine based on a digestible RFID tag.
RFID tags have various use:
- Passports
- Transport payment detectors
- Product tracking
- Animal tracking
- Inventory control
- Human implant
In today's society the case is rapidly being made for human implants due to child abductions and key political kidnappings. Also, the tracking of prison inmates and parolees are on the list of usages. In the casinos the already have face and eye recognition software that scans all traffic for people who were black listed. The only place where a camera can't be placed yet are the restrooms.
So is the line being crossed by implanting RFID devices in humans or are we well pass that point. Lets see.
RFID - Cons
One problem that exists is RFID standardization. The frequencies used for RFID in the USA are currently incompatible with those of Europe or Japan. Furthermore, no emerging standard has yet become as universal as thebar-code. Another concern surrounding the RFID technology is the illicit tracking. Tags which are world-readable pose a risk to both personal location privacy and corporate/military security. Further concerns are:
Privacy - concerns about traceability, spending habits, financial information, medical data, how many sodas you drink the possibilities are endless.
Population Tracking - where you vacation, how long you sleep, shopping habits, no secret getaways
Biblical Prophecy - mark of the beast, 666, eternal damnation, A passage in Revelation describes a vision in which "a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image."
The U.S. FDA approved the first RFID chips implanted into humans in October 2004. The FDA warns of the following potential complications from implanting RFID chips into humans:
-
Adverse tissue reaction
-
Migration of the implanted transponder
-
Failure of implanted transponder
-
Electrical hazards
-
Possible incompatibility with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Now we have the flip side of RFID tagging and we're just in the infancy stages of this technology. The main objective for using RFID chips seems to focus around manufacturing, supply chain management. The market for RFID is only growing, but as with all things humans are creative and devilish in thought, so we will see soon enough how far over the line they will go.Then it will be your turn to decide to "Chip or not to Chip".
Comments
I know, but fear makes you do crazy things like get chipped.
i believe that the government is just trying to watch our every move and evade our privacy this is just so controversial
Skepticism is running high these days, they are some benefits to RFID's, but we know there's abuse in all these areas.
it's up to the people if they want to be chipped or not..
If they could design a chip that you could use personally, that requires an activation code (that the user of the chip decides) before it sends it's own ID code, the chip could be more secure, IE anonymous. Example of how it would work, Reader activates chip, Chip sends standard 3 number code. There's only 1000 combinations so it's a pretty basic. The computer reads this initial code, then sends it's own user programmed code to the RFID. The RFID then reads that code and sends the real 10 digit code. The interaction is then complete. The car turns on or the door opens, and not just anyone can read any RFID. Put it in a good place on the body and you'll be able to remove it at any time. Don't ever let someone else implant you with THEIR chip...
Chipping is the one thing of any, that people must say "NO" too.
There are numerous ways in which they could control people via Artificial Intelligence, and security surveillance technology.
You're right. They will use fear to try to get us to chip up. I saw a video on a representative on CNN talking about the health care chip. I don't remember the guys name, but he said that they are expecting full-fledged use by Americans by 2017.
Of course, if there is some kind of pandemic, natural disaster, or terrorist situation we could be required to wear these sooner.
I'm not going to get one, no matter the cost. There's a very good reason that I say this, and you touched on the subject in your article. My personal reasons are in my article about RFID technology: http://hubpages.com/hub/verisign-mark-of-the-beast
I don't believe implanting humans with foreign objects is necessary. But Gods word can't return void, so the prophecies have to be fulfilled.
I was chipped without my permission, during a surgical procedure. I now have out of control cell problems, computer problems, phone and tv problems, banking, etc. Doctors. Do not want to touch the broken equipment in me. I have medical records that do not match up and some that are missing.. no person should ever be chipped. GOD help you if it is done to you unehthically/illegally. They all stck together. You will. Suffer. It is true electric shocks and all (with antenna) I am a walking lightning rod, with a dead battery petruding from my base of spine. I can be tracked anywhere and didn't know what was going on to me until a couple weeks ago. Surgery was 2008. DON'T DO IT EVER.
Mary, that's terrible. I'm afraid the way technology is these days you could go to have a tooth filled and find out you have been chipped. The system we now live in is control happy, the rfid chip is just another way for big brother to keep track of us.
Thanks for the effort, keep up the good work Great work, I am going to start a small Blog Engine course work using your site I hope you enjoy blogging with the popular Blog Engine.net. The thoughts you express are really awesome. Hope you will right some more posts.
Regards:-
supply chain management
i think we should get chipped because if lost we could be found
someonewhoknows 3 years ago
This is a no brainer "Literally A No Brainer"
Anyone willing to be chipped has no brain