.when delivered the innocent person puts the item bought near him in his office..etc. or wear the Fitbit etc..who's to say the evil doers can't then listen and track the person?
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeell, okay, but sounds like it goes to the manufacturer in a lot of instances.
Ex: I order spa chemicals through Amazon that are shipped from another supplier. Chems are double wrapped in plastic, stay in a closet or cupboard, get used and the bottles tossed. Spa filter: sits inside a hot tub, gets cleaned/dried, goes back inside hot tub.
Fit Bit: yeah. They are tracked, if someone wants to track the wearer. Solution: don’t use one.
How about Kindle downloads? My Kindle sits in a couple of different spots and sometimes travels with me.
Too many diverse manufacturers. Not all products shipped from Amazon. Most people total waste of time to monitor.
I sell by the gross to distributors, which is common practice. I doubt they would add cost/time to each unit so they could track the end user. I know I wouldn’t. Bad enough having to add the ^&%$#@% UPC code. Distributor sells smaller amounts to retailers. They wouldn’t bother to track end user...to what purpose? How do they know if the item is a gift? Could end up on the other side of the planet within a short period of time.
Easier to use an electronic device, like a phone/FitBit, et al. We already know Smart appliances/devices are spyware. BTW, I do keep my chipped credit cards in foil envelopes so if I pass an RFID reader, they don’t register. Look at those cards: thicker and heftier than before. You can tell.
Anyway, I think in this Brave New World where the military/intelligence services have Smart Dust, drop it on the battle scene and later track the perps who escape via satellite and various nano devices, drones small enough to pass for an insect that can also swarm.....why bother with chips in random stationary objects?
Here’re scenarios: you are targeted, go to the doc and receive any sort of injection. MD is compromised (or unknown to them, someone substitutes a couple of vials of medication) and at someone’s behest, a tracker is included in your injection. Probably could last a month in the body. Easy-peezy and no one would ever know. Maybe use this in mandated inoculations during epidemics. Ditto a dentist could insert something in a crown or an implant that would last longer. Or a surgeon in a prosthetic. Walk into a department store or past a kiosk/pop-up and a salesperson spritzes you with a new perfume/cologne. You are now carrying micro/nano cameras and sensors. A cloud of gnat-sized drones is able to track your movement as long as the tiny batteries last.
Maybe an episode of ‘Person of Interest’ will incorporate this.