Anyone attending the Olympics in Beijing this summertime is going to find something unexpected embed in their ticket : their passport information , home base computer address and email name and address . All of these details will be nicely engraft in an RFID chip in each ticket . The move is design to contain counterfeit tickets in the counterfeit - happy nation , but it sure enough raises some secrecy alarms .
First off , people other than Olympics official may estimate out a way to read the information from the wireless cards , create a Brobdingnagian breach of privacy . I personally would n’t need to take the air around with all that information imbed in a simple sporting even ticket , nor would I want the Formosan government activity to have possession of all my personal info constantly after .
On the other side of the coin , some interest that the technical scanning of the tickets at the logic gate could make getting into effect a dim , torturous affair . All this for only $ 720 a just the ticket !
If all that stuff about China squeeze human rights and gratis speech did n’t dissuade you from see the games , however , I doubt this will change your intellect . [ Gadget Lab ]
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