[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. 

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http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5063990.html?tag=fd_top

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