[AlaninSA]

Overreaction.

I'm a big supporter of RFID technology. It's the best method for managing supply chain. My company uses it to control our inventory. We're going to expand the use of it.

...and we're not interested in what you're doing at home. We care only about the movement of material from point of make to point of sale.

[billorites]

"I'm a big supporter of RFID technology. It's the best method for managing supply chain. My company uses it to control our inventory. We're going to expand the use of it. ...and we're not interested in what you're doing at home. We care only about the movement of material from point of make to point of sale. "

[Gordongekko909]

Would an RFID tag survive a washing?

[longshadow]

...and we're not interested in what you're doing at home.

Never underestimate the power of paranoia to override reason. The RFID hysterics are certain the evil doers are going to use RFID track how many times they visit the loo in the last month and how often they visit the mother ship. To them, RFID technology represent the nexus of evil multinational corporations, privacy-invading government, and "mark -of-the beast" Satanic ritual perversion, all designed to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.

In short, these people are completely and utterly insane.

[AntiGuv]

I'm a big supporter of insecticides, but I wouldn't recommend you pour them on your food.

[JamesP81]

...and we're not interested in what you're doing at home. We care only about the movement of material from point of make to point of sale.

Not that it matters. A high power electromagnetic field will verify your pledge. Time to visit my dad's machine shop and use the bearing heater.

[CindyDawg]

Then why not de-activate or remove them at the register?

[demlosers]

Yes, it certainly will improve logistics.

[KoRn]

"...and we're not interested in what you're doing at home. We care only about the movement of material from point of make to point of sale."

Before I would buy anything you were selling with this I would need some proof that this capability wouldn't be going home with me. If you implement this without that assurance, I wish you the best of luck in finding your next job.

[RinaseaofDs]

Fabulous. Prove to consumers the chip doesn't work after point of sale and I'll stop opposing it. I work in competitive intelligence and am an EE, so while I agree that RFID is amazing technology, I also agree the potential for abuse is appalling.

[ThinkDifferent]

...and we're not interested in what you're doing at home. We care only about the movement of material from point of make to point of sale.

Which makes perfect sense. But what I don't understand is that this entire issue could be defused if the tags were deactivated when the product is purchsed by the customer, and nobody seems interested in doing that.

[MissAmericanPie]

This may be perfectly true at this point, but here is a scenario. I buy the pants put them in my shopping bag. At come future point some marketing sales exec is going to say, this is a good way to track people's shopping habits.

So after my Levi purchase I leave the store and I walk into Marshal Fields and my chip is automatically registered as I enter, not only there but every store I visit. That is invading my privacy. Just because you sold me pants doesn't entitle some marketing company to follow me through the mall registering what shops I favor.