steueridentifikationsnummer (tin, taxpayer identification number), vom baby bis 20 jahre nach dem tod :: ssn, a de facto national identification number and information fraud testimony: "since 2003, more than 36 million americans have had their identities stolen."

10 key points on identity fraud | bbb chronology of data breaches | privcy rights clearing house

reading about the ubiquitous city in south korea,

The U-Life South Korea plans to spend $25 billion on New Songdo, the world's largest "ubiquitous city", with computers linking home life and life on its streets. Construction, 40 miles from Seoul, is to be done in 2014 | update+other korean u-projects: seoul digital city,

european studies about "pheromone-based interaction to enforce adaptive and context-aware coordination" with rfid:

We are perfectly aware that the current industrial EPC standard for RFIDs adopted by most major retailers, considers read-only RFID tags. Also, we know that privacy concerns are driving solutions to deactivate RFID tags from their original context of use (e.g., the retailer). However, we consider these two problems temporary ones that are likely to disappear in the near future. | marco mamei and franco zambonelli,

, and about hitachi's development of a still unnamed chip "no bigger than specks of dust", measuring 0.002 by 0.002inches (acm may 2007. if i am not wrong that's ~0,05 mm), last year the news was:

World's smallest and thinnest 0.15 x 0.15 mm, 7.5µm thick RFID IC chip | hitachi,

i understand the future of rfid looks bright and that small that you don't need to ask. - what doesn't fit in this world is humanity as i know it. hey, i am not interested to tag or trace my apple with dust, just to be in the end tagged myself. | lem, look down!

eu rfid forum brussels, march 2007 eu policy outlook, berlin june 2007, working paper

European Cooperation in Informatics, a joint enterprise of the Information Processing Societies, conference report 1976 | dijkstra

seems it was the first eci conference and according to dijkstra not a very successfull one.

(In this respect the panel discussion was very revealing: at least half of the time was devoted to problems related to standardization! From the history of programming language development they should have learned to what disasters that premature concern about standardization may lead.)

P.S. To give you some impression of how "international" this conference was: more than 150 participants were Dutch. P.P.S. A final quotation from our IBM-spokesman: "Interfaces decrease performance and increase manufacturing cost.".

the papers.