Radio frequency identification of Hurricane Katrina victims

There have been reports that the US Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team and health officials in Mississipi´s Harrison County have been implanting human cadavers with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips as part of the effort to speed up the identification process of Hurricane Katrina victims. Motivated by the interest generated by this report, this paper comments on the technology, applications, challenges, performance, and individual and societal implications of RFID