SlashDot posts a terrifying phenomena that is now spreading world-wide:
“The UK Government is studying license plates with embedded RFID tags. The plates can be read from 300 feet away and in rapid succession by readers embedded in the road or by ‘surveillance vehicles.’”
The new e-Plates project uses active (battery powered) RFID tags embedded in the plates to identify vehicles in real time. The result is the ability to reliably identify any vehicle, anywhere, whether stationary or mobile.
The e-Plates project has been under development for the past three years at a cost of more than 1 million, and is currently under consideration by a number of administrations.
The reader network includes fixed location readers (for use on the roadside) and portable readers (for use in surveillance vehicles and handheld devices). It sends the unique identifier in real time to a central system where it is matched with the corresponding vehicle data such as registration number, owner details, make, model, colour, and tax/insurance renewal dates.
A $10B Contract for People Tracking in the United States was recently won by an Accenture-led consortium.
BluTag is the world s first all-in-one real-time offender tracking device. Designed to be worn continuously on an offender s ankle, BluTag uses Global Positioning (GPS) and the mobile telephone network (GSM), to monitor and report position to a custom designed monitoring system
Tracking Cattle with RF-ID is already routine. Here’s a GPS-driven cattle probe. Ekahau WiFi Tracking Tags are now in commercial use.
Paging Phillip Zimbardo.
