Re: [privacy] Boston Logan Airport to Implement Baggage, Passenger RFID Tracking

[Stephen Villano <stephen.villano () us army mil>]

To final destination? WITHOUT an RFID infrastructure in place in the OTHER
airports?
Any way you slice it though it's the same as the airlines barcode your
luggage anyhow. 
Simply another waste of the taxpayers money. Hey! We have a little extra
budget money left over, what'ya say we re-invent the round thing on an axle?
Again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:11 AM
> To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: [privacy] Boston Logan Airport to Implement Baggage,Passenger
> RFID Tracking
>
> Via eWeek:
>
> [snip]
>
> The powers that be at Boston's Logan International Airport have contracted
> Boston Engineering to implement an RFID project that will track customers
> and their baggage from arrival to final destination.
>
> Boston Engineering will utilize Vienna, Va.-based Inkode's CRIS (Chipless
> Remote Identification System) technology as the basis for the pilot
> program.
>
> Dubbed SEATS, or Secure Environment for Airport Terminal Systems, the
> project is actually a collaboration between the two companies that
> combines Inkode's passive, disposable wireless tracking device with a
> baggage tracking system developed by Boston Engineering.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1962690,00.asp
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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