>> Not sure George Orwell could have imagined what this movie
>> portrays.
>>
> Pardon my ignorance, but would someone kindly explain what it means?
Looks like the mall system is tracking people and their purchases via
RFID like tags in their clothes or themselves and classifying what kind
of shoppers they are, what they have purchased before, when they came
and when they left the mall, etc...
Even though RFID is supposed to work only at close ranges, there is
nothing preventing a really well designed antenna from beaming the power
at the chips from miles away and picking up the responses. So, combine
data networks of places like malls, shopping centers and well placed
sensors on or near highways and you could follow someone/something just
about anywhere.
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