Tien

Tracking devices were once solely the stuff of superheroes and foreboding sci-fi satire featuring a shadowy, technologically advanced Big Brother. Over the last two years though, RFID technologies have been utilized all over the globe, from China’s national ID card program to Germany’s World Cup tickets. In the United States, the State Department’s 2006 passports began including RFID chips. Also in 2006, the New York City subway system tested the RFID-enabled Mastercard PayPass at a portion of its turnstiles, and markets such as Philadelphia, Dallas, and Orlando, Fla., underwent PayPass trials, as well. It’s hard to deny that the future of RFID technology