RFID: Friendly Surveillance (Part 4}

Digi-Key evaluation kit site. Build and test your own RFID application.
Mouser evaluation kit site. Reader & tag transponder parts. Programming equipment.

Bea Systems RFID solutions.Learn about the back end: Data mining for profit.
Knogo RFID page. (Now part of Sentry Systems.) Integrated security systems for commerce & industry.
Sensormatic RFID page. This is the company that makes RFID "turnstiles" that you pass through at many store entrances. You can also find the support and database software here.
Zebra rfid page Labels, tags, printers, programs... And much more. This page also provides discussions of RFID technology to get you up to snuff.

Caspian, an anti-RFID technology organization. Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. Are your purchases allowing marketers to track you? An RFID reader could be anywhere. Can that unmarked van passing your home read what's in your cupboards?
SurgiChip. Counterpoint: How RFID could save a life or a limb.

Experimenter. Amal Graafstra's doctor implanted chips in Amal's hands. Amal wrote his own RFID software. His RFID tags can unlock his car and home.
RFID Toys, Amal Graafstra's groundbreaking book on personal RFID projects. Tag your belongings, your pets and yourself. Unlock your car and your home by waving your hand across a reader. Includes demonstration programs for microcontroller-operated projects. Schematics, parts & sources for hardware. (Graafstra has two implants.)

VeriChip® receives FDA approval. Here's the story.
Hacking demonstration and response from hackers.
Spy Chip site concentrates on potential for illegal surveillance by RFID devices. Some religious fundamentalists assert that RFID can mark people with "the sign of the beast."
Jonathan Westhues' site on cloning VeriChip® devices. If you have an implant, beware. It might not be very secure. Micro-readers can pick up your identity anywhere. Better look into buying shirts with built-in Faraday cages! (Such shirts exist.) Marketers, take note: Product opportunity!
Problems with VeriChip® devices. Verichip® devices are implantable in humans.
The IEEE weighs in.
Article on controversy. Title: “Don't Let Ignorance Block RFID”

HomeSeer II. Home RFID. Automate your home. Inventory & track your possessions: Groceries, music, DVDs, even clothes. Protect valuables from theft. Find that missing cellphone. Streamlines checkout in large house sales. Many small home business applications, too.
RFID kits. Control everything with your implant or ID tag. Design the tag yourself.
Futuristic and very practical RFID projects.
Many brands to choose from. Be on the cutting edge.

RFID Journal. Your online news source about the RFID industry.
RFID News. All about RFID newsmaker. Plus, a useful marketplace section. (RFID News merged with RFID Operations.)

Info Week on the RSA blocker tag.
RFID for Dummies by Patrick J. Sweeney II. Introduction, budgeting, deployment & advice. Name should be RFID Introduction for Managers. Definitely not for dummies. Good first book on RFID. Points out other sources. Here's a sample of the book. Read RFID For Dummies (entire text) online.
Wired article: Is RFID Technology Easy to Foil?

RFID Wikipedia article Lengthy article covers nearly entire subject: RFID history, tag types, frequencies, controversy. Few use examples. Implants. RFID shielding. Only mentions few manufacturers.

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