RFID Tech Infiltrating a British Institution

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @08:53AM from the tea-and-tracking dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "According to silicon.com, Marks & Spencer — a department store as quintessentially British as tea & cake — is so pleased with its trial of RFID clothes-tagging that it's planning to roll it out nationwide. Considering that the UK's Information Commissioner recently made a lot of noise around the RFID track and trace tech, warning that Britain is 'sleepwalking into a surveillance society', Marks & Sparks seems to be setting itself up as a tweed-clad Public Enemy Number One."

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It's removeable by dafz1 · 2006-11-14 08:59 · Score: 4, Informative

"The RFID tags are contained in throwaway paper labels attached to, but not embedded in" the clothing.

Buy garment, remove RFID tag. Hopefully, it will be on one of the easily removed tags that you cut off anyway.
Re:Spencer != Sparks by RealSurreal · 2006-11-14 09:03 · Score: 5, Informative

It's like a nickname. Marks and Spencer is widely referred to as Marks and Sparks in the UK. Don't ask me why. It just is.