[The fact that Gilette installed the RFIDs for their own innocent cost-saving distribution purposes is fine. The fact that the supermarket chain is using the embedded RFIDs for alternative purposes is what causes the privacy concerns. This is exactly what people were worried about when the technology was announced. Clearly, RFIDs are easy to abuse - and this supermarket chain is apparantly experimenting with ways to abuse them. -Mike O.]
News.com article: http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5063990.html?tag=fd_top Gillette has dismissed complaints by privacy groups that the company plans to use smart tags in its products to track and photograph shoppers. The Boston-based consumer products company is one of the first to trial 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 Cambridge, England store. But privacy groups started protesting outside the Tesco store when it emerged the supermarket was automatically taking photographs of shoppers when they picked the blades up off the shelf and when they left the shop with any tagged product. Read more... http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5063990.html?tag=fd_top
