RFID and Privacy

Some consumer and privacy advocacy groups fear that RFID will take away personal privacy through exploiting the use of RFID to monitor peoples’ movements and behaviors without there knowledge or content, for example, by tracking them via RFID tag in their clothes.  While there may be some legitimate concern about RFID privacy, this type of issue is not well founded as it would require satellite-based tracking, which while possible, is not practical for commercial consumer operations such as consumer market research.