December 02, 2006
RFID Implant Undetectable?
Earlier in the week, I wrote about a Law + Order TV episode in which one character unwittingly has an RFID chip implanted into her (on the back of the neck, I believe). I argued that this isn't possible, especially since the character is "septic", meaning susceptible to infection. That means she should have known right away that her husband tagged her.
Mark Roberti, Editor of the RFID Journal backs up my claim, indicating that it's very difficult to get away with a secret implant. Generally speaking, my observation over a decade (?!) of Law + Order viewing is that the scriptwriters do due diligence in understanding new technology. But in the case of RFID, they did not get it right/write. And planting the chip deep into the body so it's not detectable (except with an X-ray) would be useless since it would generally cease to function. (So vague references in the X-Files show were also quite fictionalized.)
[via RFID Weblog]
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