RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not'

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 24, 2004 @04:21AM from the brilliant-attitude dept.

VTBassMatt writes "According to an interview with Scott McGregor of Philips Semiconductor in BusinessWeek, RFID tags are coming whether we like it or not but of course won't affect our privacy. Choice quotes from the article include such gems as, '[P]rivacy concerns around RFID tags are a little like concerns about supermarket scanners years ago. When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.' Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?"

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Re:loyalty cards by tomstdenis · 2004-03-24 05:23 · Score: 0, Troll

Plain sight?

Oooh ooh they can track what you buy via RFID.... THIS IS NOT NEW!!!!!! It may be easier with RFID but you are still in plain sight.

People like you make real privacy issues harder to argue because there is too much noise going around about things that are ***not*** privacy issues!!!!

Whoever modded the parent up as "interesting" should be fucking shot.

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