With today’s technological advancements powering forward with startling speed, it can quickly become difficult to pay attention to the minute details that surround and encompass everyday life. Everyone has seen Windows 10 and the new iPhone 6s+, but not many people have noticed the small and silent but (metaphorically) deadly technological “predators” that are spreading quickly throughout humanity: RFID chips. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. RFID is a small piece of equipment that utilizes electromagnetic fields to transfer data between the chip and a receiving device. General RFID chips are a breach of personal privacy and should not be used in any circumstance that involves humans. RFID chips have two different forms: the
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With some simple modification, RFID chip readers have been developed to sense and track goods and supplies that have these chips sown inside the material. For example, some stores have implanted RFID chips into pieces of clothing so that not only can the store track the location of the apparel in case it was misplaced, but if the apparel happened to be in a customer’s hand as he or she walked by a modified TV in the store (a special model that had an RFID reader built into a sensor), the screen would instantly show more information about the piece of clothing in hand and more items that are directly related to that article of clothing (Halzack …show more content…
This means that is has no consciousness to be able to legislate whether or not the information it is transferring is important or private to the owner. As the RFID readers themselves are a piece of technology, they can inherently be enhanced to increase their capabilities. This may include, but it is not limited to: increased reading range, faster transfer rate, ability to bypass security, etc. Each of these increases the susceptibility of the normal population’s information to a private hackers reach, from issues as small from changing prices to grocery items to as large as tracking the lives of people with frighteningly specific
With some simple modification, RFID chip readers have been developed to sense and track goods and supplies that have these chips sown inside the material. For example, some stores have implanted RFID chips into pieces of clothing so that not only can the store track the location of the apparel in case it was misplaced, but if the apparel happened to be in a customer’s hand as he or she walked by a modified TV in the store (a special model that had an RFID reader built into a sensor), the screen would instantly show more information about the piece of clothing in hand and more items that are directly related to that article of clothing (Halzack …show more content…
This means that is has no consciousness to be able to legislate whether or not the information it is transferring is important or private to the owner. As the RFID readers themselves are a piece of technology, they can inherently be enhanced to increase their capabilities. This may include, but it is not limited to: increased reading range, faster transfer rate, ability to bypass security, etc. Each of these increases the susceptibility of the normal population’s information to a private hackers reach, from issues as small from changing prices to grocery items to as large as tracking the lives of people with frighteningly specific