[OT] - RFID chips already in billions of products

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:38 pm

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907C.shtml

Highlights include :

Products that have been fitted with RFID include Calvin Klein and Abercrombie and Fitch clothing, Kleenex and Huggies baby wipes, Toyotas after 2004, Viagra and Oxycontin prescription bottles, company loyalty and membership cards, library books, every new US passport beginning in October 2006, and many, many more that companies won't disclose.

To find out more about the subject, I contacted Dr. Katherine Albrecht, the founder and director of CASPIAN (Spychips.com), Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering; a Harvard graduate, and also the author of Spychips, the definitive book on the subject of RFID and its dangers to privacy.

She told me that some of the most recent targets of RFID chipping include "HP printers and scanners, Sanyo televisions," and "many other electronic goods sold at Wal-Mart stores throughout the country."

"Products tagged by RFID readers can be monitored by smart shelves," which can direct cameras to "take a mug shot of you once you pick up the tagged product," even if you were simply looking at it.

Kathrine told me that this is exactly what happened in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where unsuspecting shoppers had their pictures taken by one of Wal-Mart's own smart shelves when they picked up a stick of Lipfinity's Max Factor.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:44 pm

ethios4 wrote:this is exactly what happened in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where unsuspecting shoppers had their pictures taken by one of Wal-Mart's own smart shelves when they picked up a stick of Lipfinity's Max Factor.

For fuck's sake, don't RFID the gun department!!

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:47 pm

sounds to me like one of those "EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!" type reports.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:48 pm

Johnisfaster wrote:sounds to me like one of those "EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!" type reports.

You're not panicking?!?!!

/runs back into fallout shelter...

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:55 pm

I don't know, I just don't pay attention anymore especially to television sources as they are relentless about their "BE SCARED!!" reporting. and if it's not "BE SCARED!!" it's "WHO KILLED ANNA NICOLE?"

I couldn't find any source of news that I trusted enough so I just gave up.

I can't stand tv in general anymore, I don't watch it AT ALL. it's so full of "arent gay people funny?" and "oh my god... I can't believe they eliminated him!" that it makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

sorry to highjack.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:22 pm

this was only a matter of time...

the_viirus · Post by **the_viirus** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:14 am

what is funny....the Amex Blue card.
I see them every day and you can clearly see the RFID tag inside of them. I am surprised that NO ONE has wondered why there is more in their card than just a magnetic strip.

jackmazzotti · Post by **jackmazzotti** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:39 am

welcome to the end of this world as you know it

666 ring any bells

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:30 am

so satan is in my Am Ex Blue card? I knew my but was itching, but I could never have guessed that was the reason...

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:51 am

wow one more picture to add to the hundred that already take pictures of me each ane every single day I leave my house. Get over it. Are you so dam important that anyone gives a dam about what you are doing? If you are not steeling crap then it shouldn't matter. Have a great day.

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