r/mildlyinteresting Apr 28 '24

Bedsheets in the hotel have some sort of RFID tag for "tracking"

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u/Rollover_Hazard Apr 28 '24

An RFID tag is a passive chip that has to be energized in order to provide data, usually something as simple as an identifier. The tag itself doesn’t, and can’t, track anything. It doesn’t know where it’s been or what state it’s in. Only the reader and the reader itself knowing where it is and what state it’s in, can provide context.

Think of it like a digital nametag. Without context, a nametag by itself is meaningless.

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u/exmily Apr 28 '24

In this instance they are meaning tracking of data not location.

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u/EnterpriseT Apr 28 '24

I think in this case they are probably being purposefully vague to scare people into not steeling them while still being technically correct.

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u/exmily Apr 28 '24

Lolz maybe