By Gemma Simpson, 11 December 2006 12:10
NEWS
RFID licence plates are set to be introduced next year by the Road Transport Department in Malaysia, according to reports.
Authorities there are hoping the high-tech plates will curb car theft, with each chip containing information about a vehicle and its owner.
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It means police will be able to scan cars at roadblocks, see if a car's plate matches its registered details and detect stolen vehicles.
New cars will reportedly be the first to sport the new tags with older vehicles following suit in the staggered rollout of the proposed RFID-tagged plates.
RFID tags are popping up in more and more places, from schoolchildren to M&S men's clothing to Fulham Football Club.
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1. galley slave#41
WHY NOT JUST TATOO A BAR CODE ON OUR NECKS AT BIRTH AND HAVE DONE WITH IT!
2. Peter
some time ago, Delta Airlines announced an RFID bag tagging system. However, a lost label is still a lost bag. Perhaps this is an opportunity for the higher end luggage manufacturers to embed RFIDs into the case itself and offer you the opportunity to log case identity/ownership with them, a luggage version of a MAC code. Delta or whoever could tie the two RFID identities together at check in. For the ID paranoids, logging is of course optional and they could choose only to do it in their bag was actually lost. I'd personally do it on purchase ...
3. anonymous
So Malaysia, a country with a very bad human rights record (see Amnesty International website), is about to implement RFID on cars? That says it all about RFID I think.
4. jimmy
This technology is realy worth to be used into our daily life but the support from the government is vital.
looking forward to comprehensive implementation.