Will Wal-Mart Track You?

[spinbaby]

More evidence Wal-Mart is a tool of satan:

What do the U.S. Department of Defense and Wal-Mart have in common?

The two organizations have become poster children for radio frequency identification (RFID), a technology that will undoubtedly help businesses and other enterprises do a better job of tracking goods, but also makes privacy advocates uneasy. Both organizations are requiring their suppliers to use RFID tags if they want to continue doing business with them.

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What worries privacy groups is the possibility that RFID tags will continue to transmit information after you've left the store. At a California hearing last year, State Senator Debra Bowden reportedly asked, "How would you like it if, for instance, your underwear was reporting on your whereabouts?"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1740&e=16&u=/ttpcworld/115139

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. i have never shopped there....

[coloradodem2005]

2. Scary.

Never buy anything at Wal Mart again.

[Badger1]

3. We refuse

to shop there.

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. my unndies

would tell a boring story indeed!!


this is asinine 1984 has nothing on 2004

[Kolesar]

4. every store will have this RFID technology eventually

Walmart is using this to drive costs down, and once the technology is available, everybody will have it. Someone will have to sell an RFID detector so that we can remove the tags from our possessions after we buy them

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. microwave your underpants after purchasing!...should kill the bug