[PLUG-TALK] NFC chips

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> My new Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2) has an NFC chip. For those not
> yet familiar with the acronym, it means "near field communication" which,
> in the case of the current implementation means ten centimeters. The most
> ballyhooed use of the NFC chip will be mobile payments, although I have a
> hard time figuring out why it's better than swiping a card. There are
> other uses, however.

   Read the main story on the first page of today's Oregonian about how all
these wonderful high-tech convenience features and other digital data
collection have almost eliminated privacy.

Rich