Title: Fight RFID Tracking By Retail Stores! Dr. Katherine Albrecht UPDATE (VIDEO) Source:
youtube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSjEQuDHomE Published:Sep 2, 2008 Author:. Post Date:2008-09-02 04:14:01 by Artisan Ping List:*Bilderberg and NWO Watch*Subscribe to *Bilderberg and NWO Watch* Keywords:rfid, katherine albrecht, spychips Views:454 Comments:19
Please pass this vid far and wide, & check out this list of stores that are implementing this new pilot RFID program, which was announced June 19, 2008. Dr. Albrecht urges us all to organize public boycotts of these stores in our areas. FIGHT THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!
PARTICIPATING STORES (from Forbes link below): Anchor Blue, Babies R Us, CVS, LensCrafters, Kohl's, Toys R Us, Vans and Wilsons.
Fight RFID Tracking By Retail Stores! Dr. Katherine Albrecht
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSjEQuDHomE
Dr. Katherine Albrecht has a daily show on WE THE PEOPLE RADIO NETWORK http://wtprn.com.
here is the full length show which this clip was taken from [Thursday, june 19, 2008]:
Businesswire article reporting on checkpoint systems press release http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2008/06/19/businesswire20080619005080r1.html
EXCERPT:
Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CKP), a leading manufacturer and marketer of identification, tracking, security and merchandising solutions for the retail industry and its supply chain, today announced that a number of major retailers are now piloting its Evolve state-of-the-art shrink management technology, which was introduced earlier this year.
Retailers now utilizing the Evolve products include Anchor Blue, Babies R Us, CVS, LensCrafters, Kohl's, Toys R Us, Vans and Wilsons.
Evolve is Checkpoint's next-generation suite of electronic article surveillance (EAS) products. Evolve solutions provide retailers with a highly-scalable EAS system that helps reduce shrink, boost profitability and improve the customer shopping experience. In tandem with RFID technology, Evolve can also increase inventory visibility and accuracy through its in-store tracking capabilities.
Featuring improved Radio Frequency (RF) tag detection, Smart Alarm Management (SAM) to improve system integrity, and a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that can support multiple EAS and RFID tag frequencies, Evolve significantly improves the performance of traditional EAS technologies and provides retailers with a migration path for RFID adoption.
It would be neat if technology advanced to the point where you could walk into a store, pick whatever you wanted and then left with without a need to stop by the cashiers. I can see such technology implemented in 5-10 years.
You think it's OK to wear a pair of shoes that maintains a working RFID tag in it, with the potential to store and transmit unique information about you and your location wherever you walk when sensors are nearby?
I don't think it's OK. In the store, I'm willing to pick up items with tags. Out of the store, I want them removed and deactivated. And I don't want the government thinking about tagging my wallet or anything else, either.
You think it's OK to wear a pair of shoes that maintains a working RFID tag in it, with the potential to store and transmit unique information about you and your location wherever you walk when sensors are nearby?
The RFID tag does not transmit information about 'my' location. It transmits information about my shoes. If you heard about Lo-jack(sp?) and On-Star, this is already happening with cars. Some sensitive laptops are set to beam a signal at regular intervals, showing their location. The very computer from which you are currently reading this reply can be EASILY located. And, need we talk about cell phones? All of the above are much more interesting as far as tracking is concerned than groceries or apparel and they are tracked or could be tracked today, with relative ease.
Q1 - If I wear my shoes, my wife wears my shirt (she does sometimes) and someone 'finds' my laptop and walks with it then... where am I based on RFID data?
Q2 - If my wife buys underwear for the entire family then... what are you tracking? Is she going to be at 2 different schools, out of state and at the post office at the same time?
#19. To: a vast rightwing conspirator, Artisan (#13)
The RFID tag does not transmit information about 'my' location.
Let's say that we weren't talking about RFID tags with unique signatures, as is being reported in this story. One day in the future, many tagging systems will be unique, but for the sake of argument, let's assume that the journalist in question here is somehow mistaken.
We're talking about tags that are permanently attached to products that you take with you, such as shoes. There are millions of products available on the market. However, your tag (assuming there's only one) narrows down to a particular product. You and several thousand other people bought the same kind of shoe. Furthermore, only a certain chain of stores is selling that shoe with that RFID tagging scheme. Only one location uses that scheme, let's say. Your credit card identifies you as having purchased a shoe with that scheme.
Now we have a hundred people or so. Only a few of them bought shoes with a credit card from your bank. (You were lucky, there was more than you.) However, through market profiling, and the store is cooperating in this investigation, we know that only two people match the group that would buy those pairs of shoes with your kind of card, at that location.
It's only two people, so both are now under investigation.
The crime in question is a thought crime, but the courts decide that one of you is guilty. The sentence? It doesn't matter. You're convicted.
And, need we talk about cell phones?
While committing this thought crime in question, you're free to leave your phone at home. But you need to wear shoes. By the way, the vendor does not inform you that these shoes are embedded with a chip. You may or may not be aware that your belt has another one in it.
If my wife buys underwear for the entire family then... what are you tracking?
Your wife does not match the profile of a thought criminal.
I rest my case. By the way, there will be RFID vendor immunity in the upcoming thought crime illegality hearings.