Santa’s ‘naughty or nice’ spy tags
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Santa has been spying on kids for centuries but now, his these days, his job is easier, thanks to modern technology.
“At Santa Claus Office in Finland, St. Nick’s elves give EPC Gen 2 tags to visiting boys and girls, who wear them so he knows who’s naughty or nice.”
EPC Gen 2 tags translates to RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification), aka spy tags.
And No. This isn’t a p2pnet Christmas spoof. It’s the intro to an RFID Journal story which goes on:
“Entry into Santa’s office is free. Individuals and groups can register at the front desk and receive a plastic souvenir card, about the size of a business card, which hangs by a ribbon around a person’s neck. At this point, a multilingual elf collects information on whether Laura has been naughty or nice, and what Wolfgang wants for Christmas.
“This data is then stored in middleware and linked to the unique ID contained in the EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID tag visitors attach to their cards.”
Data “provided voluntarily about each visitor” shows on a screen inside a “big golden book that Santa keeps on his lap”.
And that’s how he knows, “if Cynthia brushed her teeth this morning, or if Paul was a good boy, allowing St. Nick to personalize the experience for the children,” adds the story.
It doesn’t say what happens to the data when the kids have gone home.
BUT —- you can spy on Santa too! 
Beginning at 2:00 am MTN on Christmas Eve, track him live via NORAD as he makes zooms around the world delivering prezzies to kids identified as being worthy recipients.
Also See:
RFID Journal -
Ho, Ho, Ho, Santa Uses RFID, December 17, 2007
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December 19th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Well, I always thought there was something fishy about that list…..