[Sigia-l] Uncle Sam pointing his IA finger at you

[Listera]

"Joe 10" wrote:

> DARPA is taking the MyLifeBits concept maybe a little too far, but
> certainly an interesting classification challenge:

Naturally, I wonder if their navbar will be on the left. :-)

There's an actual program in NYC in late trials. It allows people to be
(physically) tracked in real time via a small (GPS) bracelet and results
graphically displayed. One kind is permanent and the other you can take off.
They are still looking for volunteers for the permanent bracelet.
Interested?

I've also written about packaged goods companies getting ready to place
billions of passive RFID tags on individual items for tracking. Now clothing
merchandisers want to get involved:

Benetton clothing to carry tiny tracking transmitters
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/11/fin
ancial1508EST0170.DTL>

But the best is that the Euro banknotes may come with tiny tracking devices:

<http://rss.com.com/2100-1019_3-1009155.html?tag=cd_mh>

I figure there'll be a whole of searchin' going on soon.

So is it any wonder that Google is boosting its East Coast office in NYC and
looking to hire 100 new software engineers?

Ziya
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