"Cool, Surprising and Scary: 51 Futuristic Uses for RFID.
Wal-Mart swears by it, CASPIAN thinks it’s the devil in disguise, the government hopes to profit from it, and the common man is confused by all the hype surrounding it – love it or hate it, there’s no turning back the clock on RFID folks, this is one technology that’s here to stay and go places. It’s being used in numerous applications, from tracking items along the supply chain to monitoring the whereabouts of kids and the elderly. It’s been kicking up a storm of privacy issues, and the FDA approval for VeriChip to implant human beings in the name of medical advances hasn’t done anything to settle the dust."
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There ARE some instances were RFID in humans would work just fine. Parolees and ex-cons for example (especially anyone convicted of a crime against any child). For the rest of us, you'd have to be a complete idiot to want one of these whether it's in your credit card (Mastercard's OneSmart, Mobile's SpeedPass, etc), in your car, or even more profound, embedded in under your skin.
All of these are quite unsecure and have been hacked with the RFID unique identifier (MAC address) cloned to be used elsewhere. Should you need to worry about, literally, a personal firewall for your body? Ridiculous? I don't think so.
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