I was completely astounded by Corrie Marsh's presentation on RFID. I never really thought about all the various ways in which RFID was being used: tags on merchandise, tags on packages, luggage, on the body so surgeons don't operate on the wrong body part, library check out machines, ID cards, speed passes, shipping crates, etc. One of the videos that I found most interesting was about RFID being used to track students when they get on and off the bus. I'm sure that gives both parents and schools officials a great deal of relief so that they can know where the child is--or his/her last known location in a worst-case scenario.
I do wonder about privacy issues given that so much personal information is being stored in different RFID forms. Granted, as Corrie explained, the info is in a database and not in the RFID tag (whatever the form) itself. How secure are these databases? Professional hackers get into "impossible to hack" websites and databases all the time. Maybe I just subscribe to the typical American "paranoia." I do, however, think RFID is pretty amazing.
