UK Home Office plan: ID Chips in Everything

LauraLolly writes "The BBC ran an article on how booksellers in the UK hope to use Radio Frequency ID chips to report on the entire life cycle of a book, including ownership and second-hand sales. There were throw-away lines about how the Home Office plans to use these chips in all goods, and their current use in U. S. libraries. And you thought that voluntary medical chips were bad..."

Comments

"Ownership" of goods

[Graspee_Leemoor]

They can't make it illegal to take out or destroy the chip without seriously changing the way things are sold.

Right now, if I buy a book I can quite happily rip the cover off and even re-bind it with all the pages in the wrong order if I want, it's my book.

Are we heading for a future where nothing is ever owned ?

This computer game is yours, but you aren't allowed to reverse-engineer it.

This book is yours but you're not allowed to tamper with its chip.

This movie is yours but you're not allowed to watch it in company, or more than once a month.

This CD is yours but if you want to put it on your mp3 player you have to pay again.

This TV programme is being beamed at you, but if you watch it you have to watch all of it, including the adverts.

Do you see how close we are ?

graspee

Re:Look, let's get this straight, once and for all

[hughk]

Nobody is going to care - ever - that you bought the latest Pratchett, then sold it to your friend, who donated it to a charity shop, who then sold it to a guy who gets drug conviction.

Then why record which book I have bought and who has bought it later? Perhaps somebody might care that I have a copy of the Koran and the Los Alamos Primer? A word and a number, Farenheit 451.