So Katherine Albrecht Of CASPIAN Claims That Around 70% Of The Public...
Talkback It certainly could have great aplications in the right areas
[January 9, 2007, 9:33]
IBM Slams RFID Criticism As 'anti-retail'
News Shearer characterised Katherine Albrecht, RFID privacy activist and founder and director of lobby group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, as being "confused" about the technologies that she is campaigning against.
[April 29, 2004, 16:20]
How To Get Consumers To Swallow Electronic Tags
Talkback """So Katherine Albrecht of CASPIAN claims that around 70% of the public are concerned about the implications of RFID. I say Katherine being kind and I think 90 percent do not want the RFDI. Of course I don't have any statistics to back this up but...
[November 13, 2004, 20:03]
How To Get Consumers To Swallow Electronic Tags
Talkback So Katherine Albrecht of CASPIAN claims that around 70% of the public are concerned about the implications of RFID. Of course I don't have any statistics to back this up but I'd be very surprised if 70% of the public knows what RFID is!
[October 18, 2004, 13:42]
Privacy Activists Demand Tesco Boycott Over RFID
News Caspian's director and founder Katherine Albrecht outlined the group's objections to Tesco's plans to expand tagging of individual items in its stores. We believe Tesco's decision to pursue item-level RFID tagging is irresponsible," added Albrecht.
[January 26, 2005, 13:05]
MIT Takes RFID To Next Stage
News One of the most outspoken critics of the Auto-ID Center has been privacy activist Katherine Albrecht, the head of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. Albrecht also criticised the Auto-ID Center for trying to downplay the...
[October 24, 2003, 10:00]
Under-skin ID Tags Generate Concerns
News Invasion of privacy is going to be impossible to avoid," said Katherine Albrecht, the founder and director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, or CASPIAN, a watchdog group created to monitor the use of data collected...
[August 23, 2004, 15:05]
US Lawmakers Worry RFID Will Hurt Privacy
News If you are walking around emanating an electric cloud of these devices wherever you go, you have no more privacy," said Katherine Albrecht, the head of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, who is a fierce critic of RFID...
[August 12, 2003, 15:30]
US Military Throws Weight Behind RFID
News One of the most outspoken critics of the Auto-ID Center has been privacy activist Katherine Albrecht, the head of US pressure group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. Albrecht also criticised MIT's Auto-ID Center for...
[October 24, 2003, 16:15]
BT: Don't Worry About 'RFID Luddites'
News We discovered that Wal-Mart's partners — companies like NCR, IBM, Sensormatic, and Procter & Gamble — have developed extensive plans to monitor and track people and exploit them commercially through RFID tags in the things they buy," claimed...
[November 7, 2005, 12:05]
Privacy Groups Protest RFID Tagging Of Razors
News Caspian founder and director Katherine Albrecht said: "We want to send a clear message to Gillette and other companies that consumers will not tolerate being spied on through the products they buy. Gillette has dismissed complaints by privacy...
[August 15, 2003, 9:10]
Wal-Mart Commits Billions To RFID
Talkback In July of 2003, RFID strategy documents were discovered by Katherine Albrecht, founder of CASPIAN, using an internet search engine. RFID = 1984 Radio Frequency Identification is an automatic data capture technology that uses tiny tracking chips...
[November 10, 2003, 14:39]
Fitting Passports With Biometric Data
News It is too easy to steal information out of a card," said Katherine Albrecht, the founder and director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, or CASPIAN, a policy watchdog created to expose data issues with supermarket...
[August 18, 2004, 15:45]
How To Get Consumers To Swallow Electronic Tags
News Katherine Albrecht, director of CASPIAN and a doctoral researcher at Harvard University, has fiercely rebutted the suggestion that her group don't represent widely held views. I think his comments have real sinister overtones," Albrecht told ZDNet UK.
[October 18, 2004, 12:15]
Privacy Activists Call For Rules On RFID
News Katherine Albrecht, a vehement opponent of RFID technology, went further and suggested a moratorium on the commercial use of RFID technology until legal guidelines are set. Albrecht, who also testified Monday, is the head of Consumers Against...
[August 19, 2003, 9:30]
'Secret' RFID Test Draws Consumer Ire
News It proves what we've been saying all along," Katherine Albrecht, founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, said in a statement. Wal-Mart Stores and Procter & Gamble quietly tested a controversial new retail technology...
[November 17, 2003, 10:50]
Experts: Don't Panic Over RFID Viruses - Yet
News Katherine Albrecht of privacy group Caspian said she hoped the virus would help encourage big companies and governments to slow down their RFID rollouts. Dutch researchers have announced they have successfully created a virus capable of infecting...
[March 16, 2006, 15:20]
