Well, not really, but this Washington Post article from Saturday does a good job of summing up the current state of affairs with the use of RFID tags, including the significant privacy and identity theft issues that have yet to be well-addressed in the policy sphere. Regular BKO readers have read me spouting off about RFID for years, but newcomers and drive-bys might benefit from reading this. There are many valid and even desirable uses for RFID tags — after a false start several years ago, Wal-Mart is compelling ALL of their suppliers to tag every case and pallet they ship and that will ripple through the entire retail sector — but there are just as many, if not more, poorly conceived and downright shady schemes that are going to be upon us. Better awareness now will be well-used later.
