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

[Todd R.Warfel]

IDEO did this for Prada. It's actually quite useful for merchandise, as  
it allows the staff to know what's in their inventory w/o having to go  
to the back room. Additionally, they installed "smart screens" in the  
dressing rooms that provided the customers additional information about  
the clothing with virtual models.

http://ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=50120

But tracking people...It's like a bad nightmare from Orwell.

On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 12:51 PM, Listera wrote:

> 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>
>

Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel

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