Benetton to Put RFID in Clothes?
Plans by Benetton to weave RFID (radio frequency ID) trackable chips into its apparel have run into opposition. A group called CASPIAN (Consumers Against Privacy Invasion And Numbering) has launched a website, boycottbenetton.org. CASPIAN founder and director Katherine Albrecht, a Harvard University doctoral candidate says what Benetton, Gillette and over 90 of the world’s biggest corporations are doing, in essence, is “registering” products to you. Albrecht has been warning us about this for years. She says consumers have no idea that these RFID chips actually track the owner .. ” then anytime you (go) near an RFID reader device the (product) would beam out your identity to anyone with access to a database - all without your permission”.
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