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« Links | Main | Amazing » June 25, 2004Interesting Tech StuffSteven Forrest has some interesting posts today over at the Free2Innovate.net tech policy blog, including a mention that the Domain Name System (the thing that results in you having to put a .com or a .net or a .org or some other dot-something at the end of a web address) turns 21 this year. More interesting is his post on a new technology called RFID, which stands for radio frequency identification, which will help manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers track inventory. Some privacy activists are worried that RFID will allow Big Business to invade consumers' privacy, but Forrest points to a new analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute which finds that market forces and consumer choices will reign in any such problems. Posted in Internet & Technology
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Look, I'm not going to name the company I work for, but we've got a 36 TERABYTE database of consumer purchase info. (that's 36,000,000,000,000 bytes) Everything with a bar code as well as any payment method that has a number attached to it (credit card, checks, frequent shopper cards, coupons...) is tracked. All RFID does is allow the items to be 'scanned' from a distance. Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at June 25, 2004 12:20 PMPost a comment
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