Australian implants to enable payments with a wave of the hand

interesting a reply to: robsmith

Yes they CAN be used as tracking devices!
It dont matter how much technical jargon you guys wanna push out, the fact is they can and will track with them!
Nearly every store now has the equipment in place. Its in the guise of detecting items being sneaked out that havent been paid for, you know, those items that have AN RFID STICKER ON THEM!!!!!
In the doorways of most stores we can all see the tubular induction loops. Theres one on each side of the doorway. They are placed about two meters apart, meaning that anything passing between them will be at most about one meter distance.
These devices are the exact same technology, but bigger and more sensitive than the device where you wave to pay.
Only the software would make them any different, and any store can use any software they choose.

They wont track? Dont make me laugh. The data collected will be worth BILLIONS!!!

originally posted by: robsmith
Well if your arm gets chopped off, because a crim knows you have an implant the I guess it would be an armed robbery, tish boom.

Armed robbery!!! Bwahahahaha..

I like it!

originally posted by: VoidHawk
Yes they CAN be used as tracking devices!

No, no they can't. An implant is an h-field part. You might have a range of a foot, if you really push it.

That's not "technical jargon", it's the truth.

And as I said upthread, not all RFID parts are the same. There are significant differences between item tags on store shelves and an implant. You can't implant the types of tags that are on goods.

Now if they could just give Australians implants to keep 'em off the internet.