More on RFID tags

[InfoisPower]

Someone in the last couple days posted about RFID tags and this site www.boycottgillette.com. Here is another recent article about the tags involving a symposium that has excluded consumer/privacy advocates. http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/s...BNStory/Front/

[JessicaS]

Weird! I didn't know about RFID tags, that is just crazy!

[InfoisPower]

I called Gillette, and informed them I will not buy any of their products. I no longer go to Wal-Mart either. Fooey on them.

[TiredX2]

Very confusing stuff!

Accd to snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/rfid.asp

The "trial" is not occuring in the US, but there seemed to be so much contradictory info out there.

Pictures? One article said yes, others just mentioned inventory info. Range? One article said a few feet another said it could still be working in your home, others mentioned using them as a tracking system for inventory cross country.

They were mostly being compared to UPC codes, which I have no problem with. And if they were not taking pictures or being tracked into homes (because that was impossible) I think it could be a good thing for the reasons mentioned (less transportation costs, get rid of expired/recalled merchandise easier).

[Rie&BugsMom]

so Orwellian nightmare scenarios involving avaricious corporations tracking the locations of every one of their products all over the globe are not yet a reality.

"Yet" being the operative word. Maybe, maybe not. Doesn't mean it won't happen. RFID's are already being tested in Brochton, MA.