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Story: Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 31 August 2003, 8:15 PM)
As usual the privacy lobby is getting hot and bothered about something mostly harmless. Tesco was unwise to trial the technology by photographing customers, but most shops record our every move by CCTV anyway, so nothing new there. And what about the ability to match you image to a specific can of beans? Well, the supermarket can already match your account details to "Tesco Value Beans", and that's much more interesting from their point of view. You have to be fairly paranoid to fear someone scanning your dustbin and discovering that you bought those actual beans from Tesco Metro in Cambridge on a wet Thursday last month.
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Story: Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
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The probleme here is that Tesco undoubtedly photog... Anonymous -
If these tags were merely being used for internal... Paul Will
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This company should be boycotted, where this techn... Walking Zombie
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Im sure it helps deter shop lifting, i know mach 3... ant
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At the risk of stating the "bleedin' obvious" coul... Paul Will
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Does anyone know how the data in these tags is rea... Nick Flynn
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folks: here is something to ponder: rfid is origin... Anonymous
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As usual the privacy lobby is getting hot and both... Anonymous -
There are too many knee jerk reactions to this whi... David
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It's interesting to speculate about how far and wi... Anonymous
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Why is it any different than using video surveilan... Anonymous
