World Cup Security - RFID way

Come 9 June 2006 and the world will see such huge concentration of use of RFID tags in one place than ever before. Yeah you guessed it - It must be in Germany and it must be Football season.

This years world cup foot ball tickets all have an embedded RFID tag. A rough calculation taking into consideration sixty four matches and the seating capacity of twelve stadiums, it works out to approximately 3.5 million tickets. This is undoubtedly the first ever use of RFID in such a large scale and the organisers are aware of the sort of hassles they are going to encounter. There are going to have a large number of scanners installed to read that many tickets and also to validate them.

Enhanced Surity Measures:
The RFID tag will contain the name, address,nationality, and ID card or passport number of the person who bought the tickets.On family tickets, the name will read the same on all the tickets purchased. This is a delibrate move to ensure your ticket cannot be sold or stolen.
The security plan being engineered by German police, Interpol, and other intelligence services will ensure that all are kept under constant surveillance. Camers with biometric facial recognition capabilities will also assist in spotting the known suspects easily.

While all this sounds very exciting and possible, it is interesting and perhaps to note how the security loopholes often pointed out by experts have been looked and the controversial technology is put to better the security management of the World Cup. I suppose thats where reasoning ends and Football mania begins.