Gillette snaps your photo!?!
27-Nov-2003, 09:19 AM
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Gillette snaps your photo!?!
Hidden cameras in GILLETTE spy shelves take mug shots of people who pick up their products!
Consumers have asked Gillette to stop putting RFID "spy chips" in their products, but Gillette has ignored our concerns.
RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance.
RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco - and they are already being used to spy on people.
Each tiny chip is hooked up to an antenna that picks up electromagnetic energy beamed at it from a reader device. When it picks up the energy, the chip sends back its unique identification number to the reader device, allowing the item to be remotely indentified. Spy chips can beam back information anywhere from a couple of inches to up to 20 or 30 feet away.
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I think I'm going to stop using Gillette for now...
http://www.boycottgillette.com
Consumers have asked Gillette to stop putting RFID "spy chips" in their products, but Gillette has ignored our concerns.
RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance.
RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco - and they are already being used to spy on people.
Each tiny chip is hooked up to an antenna that picks up electromagnetic energy beamed at it from a reader device. When it picks up the energy, the chip sends back its unique identification number to the reader device, allowing the item to be remotely indentified. Spy chips can beam back information anywhere from a couple of inches to up to 20 or 30 feet away.
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I think I'm going to stop using Gillette for now...
http://www.boycottgillette.com
honestly... you and your friends need to take your medication 
27-Nov-2003, 09:32 AM
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RFID chips do not have cameras in them.
If so how would they retrieve the data after you had left the store with the product.
RFID can tell another device to take a picture.
I have been working with 2nd and 3rd gen RFID for one of my landromat customers.
Actually he does all the shop clothes for Altech.
The technology is good and sound, and I have yet to find a RFID camera.
Most chip's would send a signal to an external sensor, to tell it to snap a picture.
Just not alot of adoption until walmart forces its suppliers onboard.
Take a guess who standardized the barcode in North America many moons ago.
Also in the future when posting snippits from the internet include the whole article..
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If so how would they retrieve the data after you had left the store with the product.
RFID can tell another device to take a picture.
I have been working with 2nd and 3rd gen RFID for one of my landromat customers.
Actually he does all the shop clothes for Altech.
The technology is good and sound, and I have yet to find a RFID camera.
Most chip's would send a signal to an external sensor, to tell it to snap a picture.
Just not alot of adoption until walmart forces its suppliers onboard.
Take a guess who standardized the barcode in North America many moons ago.
Also in the future when posting snippits from the internet include the whole article..
[window]www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/275490.html[/window]
27-Nov-2003, 09:39 AM
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seriously though I see not much wrong with it ... image driving the shopping cart with all your goods under a scanner and instantly it's all scanned in and a total is given you just have to pay and your on your way ... less line ups = better profits for stores
27-Nov-2003, 09:44 AM
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Originally posted by gatherer
seriously though I see not much wrong with it ... image driving the shopping cart with all your goods under a scanner and instantly it's all scanned in and a total is given you just have to pay and your on your way ... less line ups = better profits for stores
seriously though I see not much wrong with it ... image driving the shopping cart with all your goods under a scanner and instantly it's all scanned in and a total is given you just have to pay and your on your way ... less line ups = better profits for stores
I don't recall anyone with a cadilliac or other high end luxury car, or other passive anti theft car with the RFID tag in the key, concerned about privacy.
I don't recall any dolphins or sharks complaining about the RFID tag on their fins.
I'll complain when they try and tag my kids at birth... but by that time it'll be too late.
27-Nov-2003, 10:00 AM
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Consider this...
Of course, since you have your bread and butter, you don't see that as a big loss do you? I mean afterall, cashiers are unskilled workers anyway, right? The store is better off without them, no?
I know I was rather horrified to see when a grocery store down the street to me shut down and reopened just up the road. The new store had half the cashiers, but was twice as big. In the place of half of the cashiers were "self-checkout" counters, with one person watching all of them (about 10 in all).
With RFIDs, now they can get rid of ALL of them, and just pay one thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out without paying.
Of course, since you have your bread and butter, you don't see that as a big loss do you? I mean afterall, cashiers are unskilled workers anyway, right? The store is better off without them, no?
I know I was rather horrified to see when a grocery store down the street to me shut down and reopened just up the road. The new store had half the cashiers, but was twice as big. In the place of half of the cashiers were "self-checkout" counters, with one person watching all of them (about 10 in all).
With RFIDs, now they can get rid of ALL of them, and just pay one thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out without paying.
27-Nov-2003, 01:42 PM
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Originally posted by EKdude
Consider this...
Of course, since you have your bread and butter, you don't see that as a big loss do you? I mean afterall, cashiers are unskilled workers anyway, right? The store is better off without them, no?
I know I was rather horrified to see when a grocery store down the street to me shut down and reopened just up the road. The new store had half the cashiers, but was twice as big. In the place of half of the cashiers were "self-checkout" counters, with one person watching all of them (about 10 in all).
With RFIDs, now they can get rid of ALL of them, and just pay one thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out without paying.
Consider this...
Of course, since you have your bread and butter, you don't see that as a big loss do you? I mean afterall, cashiers are unskilled workers anyway, right? The store is better off without them, no?
I know I was rather horrified to see when a grocery store down the street to me shut down and reopened just up the road. The new store had half the cashiers, but was twice as big. In the place of half of the cashiers were "self-checkout" counters, with one person watching all of them (about 10 in all).
With RFIDs, now they can get rid of ALL of them, and just pay one thug to wait by the door to beat up on someone who tries to walk out without paying.
