The Sorting Door Project
From The Register: A former CIA intelligence analyst and researchers from SAP plan to study how RFID tags might be used to profile and track individuals and consumer goods. "I believe that tags will be readily used for surveillance, given…
From The Register;A former CIA intelligence analyst and researchers from SAP plan to study how RFID tags might be used to profile and track individuals and consumer goods. I believe that tags will be readily used for surveillance, given the interests of various parties able to deploy readers,” said Ross Stapleton-Gray, former CIA analyst and manager of the study, called the In Sorting Door, RFID readers (whether in doorways, walls or floors, or the hands of workers) will collect data from RFID tags and feed them into databases.Sorting Door participants will then investigate how the RFID tag’s unique serial numbers, called EPCs, can be merged with other data to identify dangerous people and gather intelligence in a particular location permalink: comments: feed URL:http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml