Corporate America is Tracking Your Every Move

Millennium Radio New Jersey ^ | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | Kevin McArdle

[RockinRight]

I know what you mean, but that's still different for everyone, and my point was directed at the impression one makes on clients.

[Domicile of Doom]

That's the trick isn't it. I really can't get on people if they drive what most would consider a piece of crap. But I can however get a little pissy if a guy pulls up in a 150k Mercedes who makes his living off commission or sales from money out of my pocket. I'm middle class, If I were upper class maybe that would be more fitting. But thats the breaks.

[linda_22003]

Fortunately, then, I don't have that kind of job, because I'm never going to invest a lot of money in something like a car (which only depreciates). That might make me cheap, but then again, my husband and I decided yesterday to go to Paris for a vacation in about six weeks, just because we feel like it.

[RockinRight]

Unless the car is a rustbucket I don't personally see an issue if you have a kind of job where you meet clients.

[linda_22003]

Nope. Saturns aren't rustbuckets, since they're mostly made out of plastic. :)

[RockinRight]

What if the guy is just very successful? It doesn't mean he rips off people.

[Domicile of Doom]

He may well be, but the perception will be there for most people.

[SteamShovel]

If you aren't actually driving to meet clients, it's none of his business what you drive. Even then, it's a fine line.

If the company is worried about impression to customers, they could rent a car or have acompany pool car for customer trips. An employees car is his own business.

[Sir_Ed]

Our salesman at the printing plant drives a turbo Porsche and has expensive rings, sparkling diamond earrings and is usually seen driving around town with beautiful blonds affixed to his forearm.

I called him a playboy once to the girls at the receptionist's desk and they all burst out laughing...he, however, heard the comment later and wasn't too pleased!

He's a slightly silly figure, in my opinion, as he looks like he'd rather be a model in Las Vegas than selling print jobs in a rural community!

Ed

[RockinRight]

Some companies do, others you write-off the expenses of the vehicle.

[George W. Bush]

Hitachi's RFID powder freaks us the heck out

Freaked us all out. Imagine the uses, spraying them on crowds at political or religious events.

The anti-RFID legislation is a good first step. But they need to go further and force them to erase the records of all RFID signatures when you sell a tagged item or it leaves your place of business.

[VxH]

>>Hitachi with its new "powder" 0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips

Eventually, we'll have nano-RFID's

Also, your own DNA is enough to identify you.

Read the fine print on the Information Disclosure forms when visiting a new doctor. "For the purposes of law enforcement" is included in the release, at least out here in in Mexifornistan.

The crux of the issue is not the technology - it is the way in which the technology is allowed to be used.

[VxH]

I don't think the problem is the technology.

IMHO, the real issue is the way in which the technology is allowed to be used - and who is allowed to use it.

I think it's a constitutional right to privacy issue that needs to be addressed.

[VxH]

[force them to erase the records of all RFID signatures when you sell a tagged item or it leaves your place of business.]

That wouldn't stop some entity from scaning the tags on items in your residence and building a profile based upon the still active tag signatures.

[VxH]

[The idea of RFID tags "in your clothing" is a bit of a stretch.]

 

Can RFID tags be sewn into clothing?
Yes. A number of companies make RFID tags encased in protective plastic. These tags are designed for use in the laundry and uniform rental business. 

http://www.rfidjournal.com/faq/29/31

[magellan]

It seems you failed to include the the whole paragraph:

"Can RFID tags be sewn into clothing?"

"Yes. A number of companies make RFID tags encased in protective plastic. These tags are designed for use in the laundry and uniform rental business. The tags used are typically 13.56 MHz tags, which have a read range of less than 3 feet (1 meter). Today, there is no way to embed a tag that is undetectable to the consumer into clothes. Companies that are testing RFID systems for tracking clothes in the supply chain are putting the RFID transponder on a hangtag that the consumer cuts off before wearing the item."

[VxH]

 

 

[VxH]

 

 

[Lauren Scott of California is blazing a new trail in children's wear. The $2 million-a-year apparel division of DST Media Inc. will launch a line of pajamas with radio-frequency identification tags sewn into the hems. Readers positioned at various points throughout a house, such as doorways and windows, will be able to scan the tags within a 30-foot radius, and an alarm will be triggered when boundaries are breached. ]

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701942

 

More?

 

 

http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/checkpoint-photos.html

 

 

Google is our FRiend:

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=RFID+Sewn

 

 

 

 

[VxH]

[Today, there is no way to embed a tag that is undetectable to the consumer into clothes]

 

The key word in the sentence is undetectable.

 

The tags are still sewn into clothing.  

 

Which renders your statement:  

 

[The idea of RFID tags "in your clothing" is a bit of a stretch.]

 

False

 

 

[VxH]

Besides, the arguments regarding RFID tracking of humans will be rendered moot once THEY are fully able to exploit this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Millimeter+wave+identification+DNA