(wired link http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar01/schmidt.asp) Good? Bad? Useful for both, as usual... http://www.inside.com/jcs/Story?article_id=23175&pod_id=13 ---- # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, June 1994 issue # # The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S. # Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic # Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that # could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out. # # Heretofor, this application has been considered only for security purposes. # # The definition of "security", according to the textile industry magazine # 'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tracking after # purchase. [What???] # # Could a machine-readable tag on a person's clothing serve many of the same # tracking purposes an one embedded in the body?