BoingBoing:

Sumana Harihareswara writes, “The Abstractions tech conference (Aug 21-23, in Pittsburgh) doesn’t tell attendees this before they buy a ticket, but attendance requires you wear their wristband with an embedded tracking chip — and that you don’t take it off at night or in the shower till the conference ends.

Organizers haven’t addressed privacy, health, physical safety, and inclusivity concerns that registered attendees raised privately earlier this month, so Jason Owen is blogging about the issue in hopes of getting them to modify their policy.”

If Macworld Expo had tried this BS back in the day, there would have been a lot fewer people at Macworld Expo.