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Majority Report?
January 2007
From Print Professional
Tracking devices were once solely the stuff of superheroes and foreboding sci-fi satire featuring a shadowy, technologically advanced Big Brother. Over the last two years though, RFID technologies have been utilized all over the globe, from China’s national ID card program to Germany’s World Cup tickets. In the United States, the State Department’s 2006 passports began including RFID chips. Also in 2006, the New York City subway system tested the RFID-enabled Mastercard PayPass at a portion of its turnstiles, and markets such as Philadelphia, Dallas, and Orlando, Fla., underwent PayPass trials, as well. It’s hard to deny that the future of RFID technology
Beef Up Security with Unique Solutions
September 2005
From Print Professional
Technology-based security measures help companies maintain their products Bootleg music and video downloads. Designer knock-offs. Identity theft. How do you tell the genuine article from a fake when low-cost, sophisticated technology is aiding even the teen next door in a rapidly-expanding world of counterfeits and diverted goods? "There are staggering amounts of counterfeiting and diversion going on in the world today," said Doug Johnston, president of Verification Security Corporation in Spokane, Wash. According to the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB) of the International Chamber of Commerce in London, counterfeiting accounts for between five percent and seven percent of world trade, or approximately $350 billion