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These tags will be "killed" at the check-out stands. No tracking after they leave the retailer.

RFID is a supply chain implement and nothing more, conspiracists notwithstanding.

2 posted on 07/31/2003 10:29:36 PM PDT by sinkspur ("Boy, watch that knife!'" Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton in "The Searchers")

3 posted on 07/31/2003 10:34:01 PM PDT by Pro-Bush (Circumstances rule destiny)

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UK's Tesco found using `spy chips'

THE GUARDIAN Sunday, Jul 20, 2003,Page 11 The UK supermarket chain Tesco has admitted testing controversial technology that tracks customers buying certain products through its stores. Anyone picking up Gillette Mach3 razor blades at its store in Cambridge, in the east of England will have his or her picture taken.

The London-based Guardian newspaper, alerted by Katherine Albrecht, director of US-based Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy and Invasion and Numbering, to the use of the smart electronic tags, has found that tags in the razor blades trigger a CCTV camera when a packet is removed from the shelf.

A second camera takes a picture at the checkout and security staff then compare the two images, raising the possibility that they could be used to prevent theft.

5 posted on 07/31/2003 10:47:23 PM PDT by Pro-Bush (Circumstances rule destiny)

To: sinkspur; backhoe

These tags will be "killed" at the check-out stands. No tracking after they leave the retailer.

RFID is a supply chain implement and nothing more, conspiracists notwithstanding.

Sure they will. Just like all the other data collection systems.

Ever read "A Scanner Darkly?"

Now would be a good time to pick it up before someone, other than Speilberg, options it.

Slippery slopes, notwithstanding.

15 posted on 07/31/2003 11:53:08 PM PDT by nunya bidness (sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas)

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