Posted 9:07 AM

Generic identity?

According to The Register (Moratorium on RFID chips urged), the usual cabal of "privacy advocates" are urging that Radio Frequency ID tags (RFID) be scrapped, trashed and junk-heaped. Once again, the neo-luddites who don't understand the needs of anyone else except themselves are doing their best to halt the advance of technology. RFID is a boon to the retail industry, especially the high-volume, low-margin industries such as mass merchants (e.g., Wal-Mart) and grocers (e.g., Safeway). The idea that someone, somewhere knows what you're buying has already been addressed (ad infinitum) under the guise of affiliate cards.

Let's chip in, but a south sea island and ship off all the privacy-at-all-cost, anonymity-now crusaders who can then create their own private, anonymous society and let the rest of us get on with our lives.