Internet: Floor Wax or Dessert Topping?

[Steve Maas]

Tiny IDs can track almost anything
By Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

[excerpt]

"The global infrastructure that MIT envisions is an Internet tool "that will 
make it possible for computers to identify any object anywhere in the world 
instantly. This network will not just provide the means to feed reliable, 
accurate, real-time information into existing business applications; it will 
usher in a whole new era of innovation and opportunity."

"And that is what worries some privacy advocates, who fear the Big Brother 
technology attached to clothing will follow customers out of the store and 
be used to track people through the items they purchase."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030609-122709-8176r.htm

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