"http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61868,00.html"http://www.wired
.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61868,00.html
"One organization may have been shamed into soliciting CASPIAN's advice,
however. The HYPERLINK "http://www.gmabrands.com/index_flash.cfm"Grocery
Manufacturers of America this week inadvertently sent an internal e-mail
to CASPIAN suggesting it was looking for embarrassing information about
the group's founder, Katherine Albrecht.
The e-mail, written by a college intern at GMA, reads, "I don't know
what to tell this woman! 'Well, actually we're trying to see if you have
a juicy past that we could use against you.'"
The intern earlier had asked Albrecht to produce her HYPERLINK
"http://www.spychips.com/albrecht_bio.htm"personal biography, "as part
of an RFID research project," and became frustrated when Albrecht asked
what GMA planned to do with the information, according to GMA spokesman
Richard Martin.
But the research project had a limited scope: Albrecht was the only
person contacted by GMA, Martin admitted.
GMA, which represents the interests of RFID backers HYPERLINK
"http://www.cocacola.com/"Coca-Cola, HYPERLINK "http://www.pg.com/"
\nProcter & Gamble and HYPERLINK "http://www.gillette.com/" \nGillette,
is working on privacy guidelines for adopters of RFID tags and the
Electronic Product Code, the industry standard governing how RFID tags
are used with consumer goods. "
The more information comes out about RFID tags, the more it seems those
companies are truly up to no good.
-Gel
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