Source: Rantings of a New Yorker
In this wonderful rant by a New Yorker you can read why RFID is not as popular as people might think. Of course it’s clear that the corporations with a vested interest in RFID technology have a lot of marketing going for them which makes people think the technology is, indeed, popular.

But as the ranting New Yorker writes; “According to Cnet, implanting people with RFID chips isn’t as lucrative, or popular, as we are led to believe. Ever since VeriChip went public with their idea to implant humans, their stock has been struggling. The chip, to be used for medical purposes, has attracted a mere 222 humans willing to be chipped.” And that “Three years ago, VeriChip began its ad campaign about how wonderful and useful it would be to be chipped. Everyone from civil libertarians to my grandma balked at the idea, claiming that there were severe privacy issues at stake in such an endeavor.”

The rant ends with a note on privacy, “Our privacy is slowly disappearing. Some care. Most do not. I suspect that, by the time I am an old lady, rocking in my chair on the front porch each afternoon, that I, and a few like me, will remember a time when privacy mattered. I will witness the erosion of privacy and individual rights as the generations behind me freely give up what the generations before me fought so hard to preserve.”

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