Originally posted by muzzleflash

no they mean on the Packaging of the cheese, not in the food itself

Why? So they can track the packaging straight from the supermarket to the city dump?!?! I mean really, who saves the wrappers and what not from these products? Why do this? Is it so these manufacturers can track, in real time, the delivery of their products from distribution centers to the retail drop points?

Just my 2-cents!

Originally posted by Aggie Man

Originally posted by muzzleflash

no they mean on the Packaging of the cheese, not in the food itself

Why? So they can track the packaging straight from the supermarket to the city dump?!?! I mean really, who saves the wrappers and what not from these products? Why do this? Is it so these manufacturers can track, in real time, the delivery of their products from distribution centers to the retail drop points?

Just my 2-cents!

It's for theft prevention. The RFID tags set off alarms at the front if the item isn't purchased. You have to have seen those detectors in front of all the doors. They use RFID because it can be read at a distance, and are still very cheap.

Some companies put RFID on boxes for tracking during shipping, but I don't think they put the tracking tags on individual items, unless they're really big.

If they were to implement the small rfid specs into money i suppose we would see shops or bars etc reading how much money is coming and going through there doors in peoples wallets etc, prob be used in some advertising way or maybe shop assistants would be made aware who had a fat wedge in there pocket and target them more than others etc.

The possiblities are endless in ways that our privacy could be abused.

[edit on 17/3/09 by cropmuncher]

Does anyone know the range of the RFID output? Does anyone know the "lifespan" of these chips? If embedded in biological material (humans and other cattle ) do they break down quicker than in non-biological materials?

While microwaving may work in items like clothing, etc. it would not be a practical solution for biologically embedded chips or for metal items or even some lighter plastics.

Need a little help in answering these technical questions. Braniacs please feel free to jump in.

[edit on 17-3-2009 by whitewave]

Tiny chips in cash is a major desire.

Drug dealers, gamblers, hookers all will have trouble with the cash they pile up.

I think there is a lot of money slipping past the tax man, and that is what the government wants to stop.

Plus boxes of cash going across the border could be detected.



On the other hand, some hacker could make a device to locate the person in the room with the most cash and target that person for robbery.

The parking lot outside grocery stores will become full of litter as people remove the packaging from all their stuff and throw it away before heading home so the g-man won't be able to sniff their cheese.

Chips in bullets will allow instant ballistic replay of crime scenes so there will not be any more JFK magic bullet type conspiracies.... uh.... wait a minute.... the RFID is a conspiracy to stop conspiracies!!! WHAAAAAA!!???!?!??

The primary reason for using the RFID technology on supermarket products was to create a "checker" less supermarket. The idea was to load up your basket, push it through the metal detector like fixture, then pay your bill with a check card. There was nothing sinister per say about it. Just corporate people trying to save more money. I doubt very seriously though that the price of products would have gone down due to the saved monies.