{"id":1836,"date":"2005-10-11T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2005-10-11T00:01:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T00:01:55","slug":"rfid_privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"RFID &#038; Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/globe\/articles\/2005\/10\/10\/you_need_not_be_paranoid_to_fear_rfid?mode=PF\">Hiawatha Bray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If this sounds paranoid, take it up with IBM. The company filed a patent application in 2001 which contemplates using this wireless snooping technology to track people as they roam through &#8221;shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains, airplanes, rest rooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc.&#8221; An IBM spokeswoman insisted the company isn&#8217;t really prepared to go this far. Patent applications are routinely written to include every possible use of a technology, even some the company doesn&#8217;t intend to pursue. Still, it&#8217;s clear somebody at IBM has a pretty creepy imagination.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiawatha Bray: If this sounds paranoid, take it up with IBM. The company filed a patent application in 2001 which contemplates using this wireless snooping technology to track people as they roam through &#8221;shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains, airplanes, rest rooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc.&#8221; An IBM spokeswoman insisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}