I mean what about public facilities with internet acess like schools and library's. Are they going to have to keep track of all there users at all times and keep records of who was on when. It'senseless as well because how many criminals use there real name or would pay for internet acess with a credit card when they know they are wanted or are activly commiting crimes. Personally I think this isn't going to catch that many people and is just going to turn into a right to privacy issue.
Saddly this is true but it is the guys own fault. He did put a fourum on his site and people posted but he didn't monter it well. I don't adree with what happened but I think it was at least in part his own fault to. That is what you get when you you live in a communist country with such heavy regulations on free speech and press. If thiss happened in America there would probably be open revolt by most of the internet comunity and probably at least some of the general public.
Couldn't these tranmitters be used as a new form of ID. So many of the comments I have read have stressed that these have a limited range and might have a practical application in inventory or shopping(cashierless stores). But couldn't these transmitters be implanted in to a person and used in place of a photo ID. It would probably be much harder to fake and could make the jobs of the police and coroners much easier. For a traffic stop you could just hold out your left hand to be scaned in place of handing over your ID. With the scan the cop could pull up you records look for outstanding fines or current warrents and it might make the process much simpler. The same could be done with your car for insurance. The cop could scan the trnsmitter and checks your insurance. Or for those unfortunate situations when someone is killed or dies and is unidentifiable at first becase there is no ID on the body. Well if we used the transmitters they could scan it and have an ID in no time. Same with other things. The transmitters could be used in other ways for shopping as well. You go to a restraunt and instead of handing your card over at the end of the meal you get you transmitter scaned and the information that is brought up would contain your credit card numbers. Only thing is this would make stealing your card numbers much harder because the waiter or cashier would never have to see it. The actual transaction could all be handled on computers. This could completely eliminate the need for cash to. Get scaned and the money could be directly transfered to the store's acount. So basically these transmitters could be used to spy on you and keep track of you but they could also make life much easier.
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I mean what about public facilities with internet acess like schools and library's. Are they going to have to keep track of all there users at all times and keep records of who was on when. It'senseless as well because how many criminals use there real name or would pay for internet acess with a credit card when they know they are wanted or are activly commiting crimes. Personally I think this isn't going to catch that many people and is just going to turn into a right to privacy issue.
Saddly this is true but it is the guys own fault. He did put a fourum on his site and people posted but he didn't monter it well. I don't adree with what happened but I think it was at least in part his own fault to. That is what you get when you you live in a communist country with such heavy regulations on free speech and press. If thiss happened in America there would probably be open revolt by most of the internet comunity and probably at least some of the general public.
Couldn't these tranmitters be used as a new form of ID. So many of the comments I have read have stressed that these have a limited range and might have a practical application in inventory or shopping(cashierless stores). But couldn't these transmitters be implanted in to a person and used in place of a photo ID. It would probably be much harder to fake and could make the jobs of the police and coroners much easier. For a traffic stop you could just hold out your left hand to be scaned in place of handing over your ID. With the scan the cop could pull up you records look for outstanding fines or current warrents and it might make the process much simpler. The same could be done with your car for insurance. The cop could scan the trnsmitter and checks your insurance. Or for those unfortunate situations when someone is killed or dies and is unidentifiable at first becase there is no ID on the body. Well if we used the transmitters they could scan it and have an ID in no time. Same with other things. The transmitters could be used in other ways for shopping as well. You go to a restraunt and instead of handing your card over at the end of the meal you get you transmitter scaned and the information that is brought up would contain your credit card numbers. Only thing is this would make stealing your card numbers much harder because the waiter or cashier would never have to see it. The actual transaction could all be handled on computers. This could completely eliminate the need for cash to. Get scaned and the money could be directly transfered to the store's acount. So basically these transmitters could be used to spy on you and keep track of you but they could also make life much easier.