[freedumb2003]

If the legislators are not going to ban them, then at least, they should require manufacturers and retailers to inform the customers where the chip is placed with instructions on how to remove or disable it after they leave the store.

Why? They don't transmit. Do you cross of the UPC bars on your cereal packages? Because RFID is just as dangerous as a printed UPC code.

[mylife]

I think many are under the impession that RFID transmits, and indeed those systems exist for semi trucks to be tracked.
But RFID at retail level is a passive system as you say no more intrusive than barcode but a LOT easier to inventory!

Active RFID would be cost prohibitive on retail items.

Also the entire idea that gubmint is tracking our everymove is silly. Its like the phone records thing.
The gubmint simply doest have the power of the will to track all the mundane details of our daily lives

[Enterprise]

Then we're all in agreement then, that at the time of purchase there should be instructions to the purchaser on how to remove or disable the chip. That's all I'm really asking for. Is that too awful much? Hmmmmmm?