up anti-RFID sentiments amongst consumers. This article examines whether RFID is the real threat to consumer privacy ?Or is the individualÆs threat to privacy from other, easily available technologies? What is RFID technology? To discuss the issue of privacy being threatened by RFID one must first understand how RFID technology works, at a very basic level. (I suppose the meaning of individual privacy is well understood here and we wonÆt go into details about it here!). For those who are interested in learning more about RFID technology, you can learn it from Abhisam SoftwareÆs excellent e-learning course on the topic. However the very elementary basic details are provided below. Brief description of RFID Radio Frequency Identification technology is nothing new. It dates to around World War II, when it helped Allied forces distinguish their own planes, from those of the Germans and avoid ôfriendly fireö incidences. After this period of intense use, for many reasons, it remained dormant for years together, until it got resurrected recently (about five years ago) by a few companies, who realized itÆs potential in saving them billions of dollars in their supply chain operations. Today, RFID technology is going from strength to strength, every year, appearing in a lot many applications than just supply chain management. This includes industries like manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food tracking, document management, baggage handling and so on. Conceptually, RFID is something similar to a barcode, which is the pattern of those funny set of thick and thin vertical black lines, that you find on everything from breakfast cereal packs, to shampoos and airline boarding passes. Barcodes are used to automatically identify an object, by using a machine known as a barcode scanner. If every object were assigned a code number, then to manually identify each object by reading the code number and then looking it up in a table or a database to see what it indicates, would be very time consuming. So some clever soul, years ago thought of denoting a unique set of these vertical lines for every such code number, so that they can be quickly ôscannedö by a machine. The vertical lines look like bars and they stand for the code number so , it began to be called a ôbar codeö. The bar code scanner machine, scans such bar codes and then sends this scanned code number to a computer which decodes it and tells us that the object is , say a box of cereals, or say a shampoo bottle depending
piece
is
an
abstract
triptych
that
I
found
while
I
was
in
Atlanta
buying
religious
paintings
The
piece
was
called
Guardian
Angel
and
I
love
it
My
patrons
fell
in
love
with
it
as
well
They
have
asked
me
to
track
down
the
artist
and
see
if
he
has
anymore
religious
paintings
available
The
only
religious
paintings
that
I
actually
do
not
buy
are
ones
that
reflect
the
image
of
Jesus
on
the
cross
I
don’t
have
a
problem
with
them
some
of
them
are
extremely
well
done
and
would
more
than
likely
sell
well
but
my
investors
made
it
very
clear
when
they
financed
the
gallery
that
I
would
not
put
that
image
into
it
PPPPP
683
Ajello
Candles
The
motto
of
the
Ajello
Candle
Company
is
“It’s
better
to
light
a
candle
than
to
curse
the
darkness”
This
candle
making
company
has
been
in
business
since
1775
The
business
has
been
family
owned
for
seven
generations
The
candles
from
Ajello’s
are
well
known
for
their
beauty
and
quality
While
they
make
more
candles
now
than
in
1775
their
dedication
to
quality
and
to
customers
has
never
changed
The
Ajello
Candle
Company
was
founded
by
Rafael
Ajello
an
Italian
painter
He
was
also
a
beekeeper
so
he
tried
his
hand
at
using
bees
wax
to
create
candles
He
worked
hard
to
create
a
formula
that
worked
well
The
formula
combined
with
his
outstanding
artistic
ability
lead
to
the
birth
of
the
Ajello
Candle
Company
In
1785
the
company
earned
the
honor
of
creating
all
the
candles
for
the
Vatican
He
and
his
wife
ran
the
business
keeping
their
children
involved
in
the
processes
from
an
early
age
As
time
went
on
their
children
and
grandchildren
kept
the
business
running
as
well
as
passed
the
family
business
on
to
their
children
By
1862
the
company
had
established
itself
as
a
leader
among
the
candle
making
industry
They
had
also
added
perfumes
and
many
.
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