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According to the graphic, all RFID/NFC tags including pet microchips and your company badge will be associated with you too.

I can remember in the late 1990's Berkeley Public Library was considering adding RFID tags to the books as asset tags. The public push-back was significant and surprising at the time. Freedom-loving library patrons were concerned about nefarious tracking. Proponents of the new tags thought that the concept of tracking people or the books they read was rooted in paranoia.

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That's cool.

As a reminder: Broadly speaking, RF-based TPMS systems on cars transmit their unique identities in the clear to anyone within earshot as part of how they work. (Not all use RF, but many do.)

Also: The tires themselves frequently have RFID embedded in them, as part of the inventory management systems used in their production and distribution.

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I wonder how theyre going to get that to work at range? I reckon you'd need pretty big and specialised antennas to have and hope of reading RFID or NFC off devices in a car going past a Flock surveillance camera. Even people walking past are going to be more that a few meters away, which is and order of magnitude further away that RFID and NFC are typically read from.

Not impossible, but it feels pretty unlikely that'd work inside the enclosure of a typical ALPR camera and at the distances devices would typically be away from them. Not without national security or military budgets at least. (Although perhaps that have that kind of budget? I mean one insular and NIMBY tech billionaire could pay for that in their San Francisco neighborhood. Possible already has, perhaps that where this company came from?)

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I wonder if they will instrument apps like waze to be promiscuous around these devices.

Then correlate things other places like at the entrance to the mall or at registers.