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Hewelett-Packard plans to add RFID tags to a million printers, handheld computers and other products over the next year. Time to check their Privacy Policy. The article doesn’t make clear what sort of consumer tracking the chip will do. I’ve sent them an email and will post any response.

Source:Hewlett-Packard to accelerate ID tagging

Update: HP kindly emailed me back. They say the chip will contain information equating to model and serial number of the unit. They say that the intent of the chip is for pre-sale inventory control — the chips will be on the product package, not the product itself. Lastly, they also add that readers will not be in the costumer entrance, but loading dock type entrance of their store. This appears to me to be a very privacy conscious approach to RFID deployment for inventory purposes.