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...facility in the Iraqi desert by using wristbands with RFID chips. By scanning the wristbands, medical personnel could access treatment and track patients in a central database. "In Iraq the real challenge was tracking noncombatants, but ultimately we hope every soldier will have an RFID tag," says Lisa Mantock, president of Texas-based ScenPro, which developed the software. Using similar technology, Calipatria State Prison in California became the nation's first such facility to monitor guards and inmates alike with TSI PRISM, a tracking technology using RFID wristbands that look like large diver's watches. The surveillance curtails violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The See-It-All Chip | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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