Big Brother te suit : RFID

Orwell avait vu juste avec son -1984-, le flicacage technique pointe le bout de son nez. Avec RFID, on peut suivre par ondes dans l'espace chacun des objets manufacturés pourvu d'un code unique, celui-ci étant associé individuellement à chacun. Quelle est la différence avec un code-barre ?

Up to now, every cup of strawberry-flavoured yogurt on the store-shelf has the same bar-code number as its fellow strawberry-yogurt from the same dairy. With RFID every single cup will be identified individually. The relating data-base tells you what kind of yogurt this cup belongs to. But more important: when you buy one, you as customer will become uniquely identifiable as well, e.g. when you pay for it with your bank- or credit-card and/or when you have it booked to your "loyalty" card.

Amb la tecnologia RFID podètz jamai saber quau saup quauquaren a prepaus de vos a n'aqueu pica moment.

This can have serious consequences:

• Our shopping behaviour is spied out without us noticing it. E.g.: Who remains standing before what shelf for how long? -> What kind of tailor-made adverts can we send this customer?
• Reading antennas can be built into doorsteps, petrol pumps or traffic lights. So then soon a lot of people - possibly also intelligence agencies or criminals - know what kind of chewing gum we prefer and which credit cards we hold.
• Some time in the future there will be no more products without RFID.
• And anyway: The more radio waves are about, the higher the pollution with what in Germany is called "electrosmog".
• Which is not the end of it, when it comes to possible environmental pollution through ubiquitous introduction of RFID chips. As soon as a chip has done its duty and is about to land in the waste bin together with its yogurt cup, it becomes hazardous waste consisting of silicon substrate, copper, lead, plastic and perhaps glass. Right now the waste disposal works are not capable of handling this. They possibly soon will be, but this will not solve the possible further environmental impact of waste that will simply land on the city dump and seep through from there into air and groundwater. This is something that even bothers the US environmental authority, the "Office of the Environmental Executive (OFEE)". (Source, in German: ZDNET, December 2005)

Comments

[Aurélien]

Bien que le RFID peut avoir certains défaut qui peuvent être parfaitement corriger, il ne faut sûrement rester technoceptique comme la CNIL ou la LDH.

[Joan Peiroton]

Quora nos farà la revirada dau texton en provençau ??? lol !!!