An increasing number of premises and public spaces are permanently
monitored. Stationary radars deployed by the roads monitor our vehicles
and the speed at which they move. Our every entrance, not only into
banks, but also shopping malls, is immortalized in security monitoring
recordings. Every transaction we make with plastic is recorded. It is
not difficult at all to discover what, where and when we bought; even
in our consumption, we are not anonymous. To facilitate road and border
controls, drivers' licenses and other documents have been designed so
that they can be checked at a distance thanks to radio frequency
identifiers (RFID), while chips - which have no protection against
reading - are designed to monitor goods, thus facilitating surveillance
and collecting information about people who carry such goods.
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