Big Brother TESCO's is planning to watch over you
Posted by: Geoff P on 27 January 2005
Posted on: 28 January 2005 by Steve Toy
The system will be easy to sabotage.
You could cause a lot of confusion by swapping the tags between items after purchase.
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by BigH47
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You could cause a lot of confusion by swapping the tags between items after purchase.
Only if you know where these tags are? Some appear to be buried in the packaging.
Fix some of the tags (if you can find) to the trollies(metal things with wheels not underpants) and they would "read" every time they come in and out of the shop.
Howard
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by Martin D
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by Roy T
As
discussed some time ago, have things changed any?
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by Jay
Ummmm, who owns a mobile on this thread? If you do you've had your own personal "tracker" in your pocket for years.....
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by Geoff P
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Ummmm, who owns a mobile on this thread? If you do you've had your own personal "tracker" in your pocket for years.....
Ah but you can switch that off!
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by Jay
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Originally posted by Geoff P:
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Ummmm, who owns a mobile on this thread? If you do you've had your own personal "tracker" in your pocket for years.....
Ah but you can switch that off!
You've thought about this before Geoff!
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by J.N.
What does RFID stand for, and what does this device do exactly?
Is it to 'track' where the product goes to?
John.
Posted on: 30 January 2005 by DIL
RFID = Radio Frequency Identification
A fact sheet can be found
here.
/dl
Posted on: 30 January 2005 by Deane F
Is there no privacy legislation over there?
Posted on: 30 January 2005 by Geoff P
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Is there no privacy legislation over there?
Not much, and it is lessened everyday, often under the guise of prevention of terrorism.
The point about the RFID tag is how cheap it is and therefore how ubiquitous it will become. Wal-Mart and Tesco between them on a worldwide basis could ensure that the vast majority of advanced societies have them all over the place.
Ostensibly they are glorified Bar codes which make price changing and stock level control by computer that much easier. The fact that they can be tracked and read wherever they are once the detector is in the local vicinity, is of course a minor concern, at least according to the likes of Tesco. Opportunistic individuals and authority organisiations such as the police can of course use them as people locators by following a trail from the purchase which will most likely document your details since most of us pay by some form of smart card and of course we have a store loyalty card
regards
Geoff
Posted on: 30 January 2005 by Berlin Fritz
When Tesco finally puts just about everybody else in UK out of business from farmers to whastever who don't play ball with them, as this government has deemed it fit to continually ignore monopoly rights and give them carte blanch power over the market, who, in this 'BLAME' riddled country will ultimartelöy be responsible when Tesco itself falls to corruption/market forces/etc, etc, the Germans/France/€urope ? I don'rt think so, the Parry's etc will be living comforatbly in Spain.
Fritz Von Ireland's potato famine comes to mind
Posted on: 31 January 2005 by Lomo
It is important that something like this is introduced to provide a higher standard of service in the retail market. I personally believe all citizens should receive a chip at birth. There are rumours that it could be placed in the mouth so that manufacturers will better perceive how the taste buds appreciate there products. It is uncertain at this stage as to whether Government agencies are interested.
