Topic: Should you worry about the tags on Wal-Mart underwear?

[sam]

The retail giant Wal-Mart will place radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on underwear, jeans and other consumer items, according to several news reports, including one today from the Wall Street Journal. Companies have long used such "smart tags" to keep track of the inventory of goods going through the supply chain, but the move by Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, to put them on individual consumer items marks a (not unexpected) shift toward something that privacy advocates have long feared.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=should-you-worry-about-the-tags-on-2010-07-23

[Rik]

I'd soon kill one off. 

[Clive]

That really is Orwell's Big Brother.  Tracking you around a supermarket!! 

[Simon]

 

[Baz]

That really is Orwell's Big Brother.  Tracking you around a supermarket!! 

the store detectives do that dont they,especially to the youngsters 

tar every one with the same brush

[Rik]

I'm amazed the brush lasts, Baz.

[Simon]