More RFID woes
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 15, 2003 at 5:32:03 PM
Gillete is still moving forward with their RFID plans. Public outcry does not bother them one bit. The store that ran the trial actually took pictures of people that bought the razors. Invasion of privacy? Yes.
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The Boston-based consumer products company is one of the first to start trials of the controversial radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in its Mach 3 razor blade packets. U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has been testing the tagged products in a store in Cambridge, England. But privacy groups started protesting outside the Tesco store when it emerged that the supermarket was automatically taking photographs of shoppers when they picked the blades off the shelf and when they left the shop with any tagged product.