Cisco coming out with RFID server that will track employees

[liveoaktx]

http://www.vnunet.com/news/1162835

Cisco has come under fire from privacy groups as it prepares to launch a wireless RFID server that can track people and equipment using existing Wi-Fi networks.

The Wireless Location Appliance 2700 is designed to track RFID tags down to a few metres and display the location on a central map.

Alarms can be raised if the tag moves out of a predefined area, allowing companies to track equipment and, more controversially, personnel.

"This can track your most valuable assets and people," said Phil Dean, manager of applications networking for Cisco EMEA.

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[prvet]

1. it can also track you

with your wireless laptop or IP phone as you move around.
I think its cool.

[SoCalDem]

3. For tracking "wayward" teens or cheating spouses,maybe...but most adults

are not that keen on having their every move tracked..

[Missy M]

2. This is one of the reasons I am self-employed...

...I would rather be on my own even when it sometimes means sacrifices than work in a cubicle, take drug testing etc., and now perhaps having my movements tracked. How depressing!!

[prvet]

5. As long as

you leave your laptop at home you wont have any problems

[Missy M]

7. Just the thought of someone being able to track me...

...creeps me out!!!

[sweetheart]

4. Technologists or Gas Chamber attendents

Increasingly, Oracle, Cisco, HP, IBM and the other technology companies,
have, rather than usher in a new age of futurism, have become the
barbed-wire in a new information-based prison camp society. The great
entrepreurs who invented more and more efficient ways to surveil and
monitor people are the new gas chamber attendents in a sick society.

Congratulations boys and gals, you've gone too far.

[prvet]

6. The system maintains records

for 30 days, you you can research where people "Were".

[hedda_foil]

8. And this is good because .....?

[GreenArrow]

9. it looks like these, proudly worn by our display model:

Just another aspect of the "ownership society."