[ASRG] public relations hole in RFID web site

[Dan Geer]

Let me be pushy:  Observational data  has zero cost to acquire
and near zero cost to store.  It has cost to correlate but has
Moore's Law as a friend.  Hence there is no doubt whatsoever 
that observational data will accumulate vastly, soon, and not
with lots of formal permission.  Walmart requires RFID tags
for all its retailers by 2005 -- and they sell 15% of all US
retail.  You are not going to tell anyone that pushing the
cart through the checkout and getting an instanteous and
accurate bill won't "sell" and particularly in those places
already doing self-serve checkout.  If you want to make an
issue of this your only hope is to make an issue of the use
of data, not the existence of data.  Next up would be the
number of cameras and whether you have a right to take my
picture on the public street.  For a risque version of
that, see

http://www.mobileasses.com

--dan