Concerns about RFID

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Compared with the application of RFID in the United States, and the relevant legislative procedures have been initiated, our greater concern is that China's RFID application may have lagged far behind.

　What if students deliberately do not wear electronic tags or steal other people's tags when destroying public facilities? It is really incredible to consider the problem to such a detailed level, but it is not too incredible. Some people have already thought that if the RFID chip is made extremely small and then implanted into the human body, can such problems not be avoided? This is not a strange theory, because some people in the United States have already done this!

Last October, the US Food and Drug Administration issued an approval allowing the medical system to implant the rice-sized VeriChip developed by Digital Applications into the patient's epidermis to collect the patient's diagnosis and medication data.

Even more incredible than this is that someone has proposed to the US Department of Defense to implant similar RFID chips in the bodies of all American soldiers! I don't know what American soldiers would think, but I know that I feel a little creepy. Although soldiers are supposed to obey orders, it is probably not difficult to object to implanting chips in the body; but what if one day employees of enterprises must also have such chips implanted? Will we refuse to implant them because it infringes on personal freedom and privacy?

Some people may say that the distance between the RFID reader (or scanner) and the RFID chip can only be within 3 meters at most to collect information, so why worry so much? However, with the advancement of technology, the information transmission distance of RFID chips will only get larger and larger. Some experts have predicted that in the end, humans will be able to use GPS technology to scan the information of RFID chips through satellites! Humans will live in a world where individuals have no privacy and cannot hide. What do you think?

Some people may say that we are still a long way from this day. However, in the United States at this stage, consumers can be said to be surrounded by electronic tags. For example, all kinds of items on supermarket shelves, razors, and even every lipstick used by ladies may have RFID tags embedded in them. The role of these tags that you are not aware of is no different from the tags that may be implanted in the human body in the future.

So this is no longer a concern for a few people. Several consumer rights organizations in the United States, such as Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Infringements (CASPIAN), the National Liberty League, the Electronic New Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and other organizations have jointly initiated an electronic tag legislation, namely the RFID Right to Know Act, which requires that products embedded or labeled must be clearly indicated to consumers and should allow consumers to choose to enable or disable electronic tags.

Compared with the application of RFID in the United States, and the relevant legislative procedures have also been initiated, our greater concern is that China's RFID application may have lagged far behind.