Misinformed Discontent

Mark my words: the phrase 'informed consent' is being embroidered on the battle banner of the privacy advocates. For some of them it's possible they could be saying this not because they're OK with RFID and GPS as long as they know it is being used, but because they think it may impose such a use barrier that the technology will never be affordably implemented. That is a possibility, isn't it?

Another really frustrating tendancy on the part of some is to honestly or not-so-honestly remain hopelessly confused or ill-informed about the differences in technological methods. It's so much easier to argue the case when distinctions are blurred and the waters made muddy. Now, for example, in this piece entitled 'Meet the Cell-Phone Tracking Parents (about the horrible trait among parents to want to know where their kids are) we have quotes from the leading anti-RFID spokesperson. By the way, when did it become inappropriate for parents to keep track of where their kids are? Or at least try to keep track?

Teens, by the way, are and have historically been, the best at disappearing acts and nothing has changed with the modern technology. In fact, GPS is bringing a whole new dimension to the age-old line, "I'll be at Susie's house tonight, Mom."

...if a teen really doesn't want to be tracked, he or she can just turn off the phone.
"Or," (says an analyst), "they could just leave their phone on at a friend's house, while they go somewhere else." And then, at 10 p.m., at least their parents will know where their cell phone is.