Irked Nurses Catch Thermometer Thief with Dose of RFID

A right to privacy, yes. A right to piracy, not if these angels of Mercy had anything to say about it:

When the fifth digital thermometer went missing last fall from the Mercy Hospital emergency department, the fed-up nurses decided that extraordinary measures were necessary to prevent any more of the $200 instruments from getting away... Determined to catch the thief, they glued radio frequency identification devices that normally would go on patient bracelets to the rest of their thermometers. It wasn't long before the culprit was caught... “We actually caught somebody taking a thermometer,” said Emergency Services director Deb Macy, with a chuckle. “It was very creative, but it works,” she said.