[BikerJoe]

Maybe the fact that someone, somewhere, will have the ability to know everything you buy, eat, wear, drive, where you go, etc...and either tell or sell that info to someone else.

Unless you're paying cash (do they still take that?), they pretty much know that information now, if you go to major stores where everything is scanned. The only thing RFID brings to the table is LOCATION. However, in theory, RFID is extremely low power and therefore very limited in range. Of course, some sophisticated signal processing could probably solve that.

Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle. Anyone who thinks they're living in anonymity is fooling themselves.

[knarf]

This probably applies here .... When I went to the polls to vote in Nov., 2004 ... my wife's name was already gone ... she died in June.

I thought that was pretty telling.

I never notified anyone or anything.

[misterrob]

Benefits of RFID:

Inventory management and control
Cost reductions
Security
Safety
Improving packaging of products
Animal control/retrieval
Property identification
Theft prevention
etc. etc

Risks:

All of the creative things people come up with to steal, spy etc,

[stuartcr]

Location, to me, is the biggest one.

[FreedomPoster]

And we’re really screwed once they start putting RFID tags in our money.