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Or, do the whole planet a favor and don't shop at Wal-Mart.]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
I made up for it by, buying a Coleman bag the following week when I got home at Target. :)]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/... and make your own clothes from animal hide, like the native indians used to]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Whatever they want is a bit of overkill and is giving the corporation (which is after all an artificial entity) more rights than us citizens have. Now I am guessing you were just saying that they can do whatever they want as a figure of speech but there are a lot of things that they should not and are not allowed to do including child slave labor, selling toxic waste laden toys, so on and so forth. The public allows them to do business and the public has a right to say what they do.

Cheers!]]>Jul 26th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Seriously.

Big freaking whoop. The RFID can be taken off, just like those anti-theft dongles they take off at the register, right?
]]>Jul 26th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/who wants to see chris or some other hacker screw with walmart :P
http://hackaday.com/2009/02/16/shmoocon-2009-chris-pagets-rfid-cloning-talk/]]>Jul 26th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Actually Target is a little bit better:
Cleaner
Better lit
More space between isles
Associates that do not look extravagantly ]]>Jul 26th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Unless they sew it into the clothes, integrate into their appliances. A lot of products for Walmart are made by manufacturers separately from stuff intended for other merchants. So, theoretically they could custom order stuff with non removable tags from manufacturers . And those suckers (tags) can be microscopic. ]]>Jul 26th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Look at you being clever! I'll bet John Doe isn't even your real name. ;)]]>Aug 2nd 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Stereotypes sure are cool, aren't they!]]>Jul 26th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
In the UK, don't they just keep track of products using all the various security cameras scattered throughout the cities?]]>Jul 26th 2010 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/To fail.
Do you ever learn?]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Maybe you should get a tinfoil hat too]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/I can just imagine these as anti-theft.....*booooop* You..there...with the Trojan brand condoms, please return the item to the associate located to your left.......if nothing else you could hopefully embarrass people by calling them out on what they took lol]]>Jul 26th 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Seems like you guys are seriously fishing for some nonexistent controversy. ]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
I'm currently in the tagging industry and this EPC tag is passive. Its not powered by any means, and cannot be read unless its in a certain range of an RFID reader.. ]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Fry the little buggers.
(or invest in a RFID zapper)]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/i want to tag all of my socks, they always lose their pair]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Look, I'll nuke the little buggers too...I don't want my tighty whities to be used as a tracking device either...but this is about reducing costs.]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/They'll only be able to track you underoos from at most 5 - 6 feet away! At which point they can just as easily track you by sight, despite your tinfoil hat.
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Let's just start with Wal-Mart. Who's to say you don't just stroll past a reader on the way out, but also on the way in. Let's say Wal-Mart gets access to readers located at "affiliate" businesses. They already have personal information about he purchaser of the Underoos. Now let's determine if the person wearing them is that purchaser. Well, what else on your person was purchased at Wal-Mart and/or "affiliates" by someone using the same accounts? How much data can be accumulated and mined over months or years? How big and complete of a profile can be built over time? Google has shown the world how data can be aggregated, extrapolated and mined. I'm not going to help them do it. I'll either know how to disable RFID on my purchases or avoid them. ]]>Jul 26th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/

the ultimate goal here is Wal-mart wants to just wave a wand over your cart and have you swipe your card so you can pay and walk out the door without bagging. I have other ideas but if they aren't patented I dont want to give wal-mart any ideas.]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/That would be illegal because its state property just like you except you are replaceable. =]]]>Jul 26th 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
Other than that... Walmart scares the shit out of me.

As for privacy concerns? I have to side with Walmart on this one. It's their merch until it's paid for. They can tag it, bag it, stack it and count it any damn way they want until it is out the door (after having been paid for of course).]]>Jul 26th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/Jul 26th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/walmart-to-add-rfid-tags-to-individual-items-freak-out-privacy/
why would wal*mart want to scan your ID? do you think they enjoy getting sued?]]>Jul 26th 2010 4:44PM