Sometimes I come up with an idea that I want to patent but I am so busy that I just blog it instead. Hopefully this will make it into the internet archive and folks can send me money when they want to license my invention.
The basic idea here is to put RFIDs in luggage. This way the systems at airports can slowly develop a profile of a pices of luggage.
How many times have we seen this luggage?
What countries has this luggage been to?
How many times has this luggage been pulled for security check?
Who has used this luggage?
We can either manufacture this RFID into luggage from the beginning or can add it after the fact. For those of you in Homeland Security – you could evne slip this into baggage while it is in the airport. Or perhaps you could work with TSA and voluntarly have them install their RFID.
You can establish the identy of the person who is associated with *this* piece of luggage each time a person checks in. This could also be done at a security checkpoint if we got some type of air traveller ID or perhaps we put RFIDs in passports.
So most folks would think of this as “Big Brother” – sure – like you being uncomfortable with Big Brother stops it from happening. If you don’t want to be tracked, photographed, searched, etc – stay away from public transportation. As far as I am concerned once I get near a plane – my life is an open book and I expect that the rest of the folks sharing that transport with me are equally willing to be scrutinized.
Ah well – this is not about politics – this is about roylaties for me and my patent.