AIM Global has very courteously run an essay of mine as a guest editorial, entitled, “Privacy Invasion as ROI”
It was something of a response to an article of theirs, of last year, “The ROI of Privacy Invasion,” which suggested that it would never be worth the government’s spending the money to create a “Big Brother” surveillance system; my view is that what we’ll see is a lot of commercial investments for plain old commercial interests, but at a certain point, the pervasiveness of RFID readers, and readable things, makes it both easy and cost-effective (i.e., it’ll be an additional return on all that investment) to create surveillance systems too.