Mark Baard at Wired – Radio Tag Debut Set for This Week – RFID is here.

Mark Baard at Wired –

Radio Tag Debut Set for This Week – RFID is here. Pretty soon,
everything you buy will have a unique serial number with which it can
be tracked. Almost time to accustom yourself to zapping your clothing
in the microwave when you bring it home from the store. On the plus
side, it makes the supply chain much easier to manage. All that’s
really necessary is a policy of disabling the RFID chips as soon as
the product is sold. [smith2004] [End the War on Freedom]

I would never trust a store to disable the Big Brother chip. They’d just turn it off, but leave it functional–and then it could be re-activated at any time.