[MLB-WIRELESS] FW: [eclectika] there goes the cash economy

[John Dalton]

I guess the initial motivation is security, but I'm
sure surveillance and taxation departments will soon
find additional uses (in the name of 'total information
awareness'.)

To start with, one's name will probably be recorded against the bank 
notes when withdrawn from an ATM.  A few years later, the tax
department will probably require all shops to keep track of, and
report, the serial numbers of all notes they handle.

Then there is also the possibility of using specialised
receivers with high gain antennas and low noise amplifiers
to track RFID chips from further away than the 'regulation'
10cm or so.  Put an 'RF' curtain across the entrance to the
airport, train station, stadium, street, etc. and you can have a
pretty good idea of who is where and when.

John

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