Retailers are putting all your clothes on the radio

In the early 2000s, it seemed as if radio frequency identification – RFID, for short – was about to take over the world. For better, or for worse.

In the early 2000s, it seemed as if radio frequency identification – RFID, for short – was about to take over the world. For better, or for worse. As Josh McHugh put it in Wired in 2004:

Depending who you ask, RFID tags constitute:

• The best thing to happen to manufacturing since the cog.
• The biggest threat to personal privacy since the crowbar.
• The near-exact fulfillment of the Book of Revelation’s description of the mark of the beast.

Source: Retailers are putting all your clothes on the radio – Alabama NewsCenter