RFID chips are so cheap (pennies) and should be packaged into everything so that anything lost can be tracked back to the owner. Anytime a product is registered, it also gets registered in a national security database. That way police can verify ownership within seconds of someone running down the street with product in their hand, or get the VIN number of a vehicle while approaching the vehicle from behind. Sensing concealed weapons before approaching an individual.
Some RFID's have longer ranges and can be checked up to 600 feet from the chip.
RFID's can be serialized with unique numbers that could identify every physical product produced world-wide for the next thousand years and still not even begin to touch the total number of unique combinations available to be encoded in each chip.
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A: Being able to track a product (especially low value products) back to a purchaser/owner has privacy concerns.
B: They require an infrastucture to support their use, which does cost.
C: Criminals would subvert them anyhow.
Classicsat: Response to your inquiries.
A. That's true, I don't want telemarketers to focus in on me based upon my buying habits. But credit card companies already provide that data. That would be a duplication of effort.
B. There are already Government agencies that attempt to track articles that are stolen so they can catch the culprits. This just provides them with some automated tools.
C. Yes, some criminals will subvert the system. How many will not? Even a child's toy has a warranty. If it happened to be in the trunk of a vehicle that was stolen and the RFID was damaged, the police would suspect something is up. But a postal stamp would be tracked. As would a surf board, ski's, bicycles, ... Not all criminals think they are going to get caught. The intent is a national database that protects individual privacy by only providing information to security agencies.