Tracking your Euros

 

Some governments are already beginning to give in to this temptation. The European Union may have already begun experimenting with implanting RFID tags in their currency. If the EU succeeds in implementing this, can the United States be far behind? Cash has long been the mainstay of people who wish to perform anonymous financial transactions. The basis of the American economy—and by extension, the economy of the entire world—is the free flow of capital. To rob cash transactions of anonymity is to end that free flow and possibly discourage the use of cash.

Even if you want to eliminate RFID tags from your life, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to. They are small and getting smaller. They can be woven into clothing, embedded in paper, or injected under your skin. Finding them is already difficult, and extracting them from the products into which they are embedded can be even harder.

Whether you are the target of a malicious government, a greedy corporation, or a hardened criminal, RFID tags will be impossible to avoid. Within a couple of years, all of us will be broadcasting our own private radio show.