If your phone is compatible, you'll need to decide whether you want to get your phone unlocked so that it can accept a local SIM card -- the ID chip that carries your local phone number.

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Together with Intrinsic-ID, NXP will demonstrate PUF technology on a SmartMX2 test chip with Intrinsic ID's SESAMES-award winning SATURNUS secure cloud application.

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She objected to John Jay School requiring students to wear ID badges with an RFID chip that allows them to be tracked at all times.

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Another notable feature is the unique, hard-coded ID number Intel assigns to each chip.

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"Today's court ruling affirms NISD's position that we did make reasonable accommodation to the student by offering to remove the RFID chip from the student's smart ID badge, " the district said in a statement.

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Last week a foreign student in Cambridge showed me his residence permit for the UK, the bit of plastic, plus biometric chip, that was to be the prototype for the ID cards that everyone was threatened with - but is now issued only to visa holders.

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They plan to chip the rhinos and other endangered animals with unique radio frequency ID tags, which the drones will be able to recognize and locate.

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By integrating Intrinsic ID's PUF technology into its secure microcontroller SmartMX2, NXP significantly enhances the chip's security architecture and strengthens applications such as NFC-enabled mobile payment, electronic ticketing, and eGovernment and cyber security services.

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In Moscow old-age pensioners carry a chip-based smart card from Visa that acts as a subway pass and id card and affords them discounts at pharmacies.

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