Would you let your employer or office building put an RFID chip in you?

[SteelCurtain]

They might be able to track you on their premises with the keycard, but it would be difficult to do outside of that, no? An RFID chip should make it easy to track you all over, unless maybe the transimission of the frequency is too weak? Maybe someone with more knowledge on that can enlighten us.

Still, you would have to trust your company that it was only a tracking chip they were injecting into you.

And it's not a matter of doing anything illicit. It's a matter of privacy, and giving away your privacy is giving others power over you.

The keycard is both NFC and RFID. They use it on all employees to track breaks and job avoidance. I keep the damn thing in my wallet, because I don't want to forget it.

Range for RFIDs is a function of both the tag itself and the reader, so technically, a tag that can only be read from 3ft with one reader could be read from a lot further with a much more sensitive reader, or, in the future, with a more advanced reader.

I get the privacy thing. It's just not a concern for me. I trust that my company doesn't give a shit where I'm at when I'm not at work. Even if they did give a shit, what could that information be used for? I post Facebook updates all the time about where I am, not everywhere, but if I go somewhere new or post a picture with friends, there's a pin dropped on that.

I guess my point is that there is so much data about everything we do out there, that this is just another dot in the matrix. If they wanted to, "they" could track my location with my credit card purchases, my cell phone connecting to a tower, my social media updates, the websites I visit, what I post here. RFID would just be another thing. I know it's another way to "track" me, but whatever, track me. It'll be a bunch of useless data.