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"While the tags can be removed from clothing and packages, they can't be turned off, and they are trackable. Some privacy advocates hypothesize that unscrupulous marketers or criminals will be able to drive by consumers' homes and scan their garbage to discover what they have recently bought."
Isn't a "unscrupulous marketer" already a criminal? What's also scary about this is the advent of the 'Enhanced Driver's License' (or EDL) http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/new...licenses-.html which are a another bullshit sell proved by the bigger bullshitting Department of Homeland Security to be used in lieu of a passport (especially between Canada and the U.S.) If you get your driver's license renewed as a EDL Wal-Mart can scan that, too from the time when you walk into the door and set prices almost instantaneously by your age, product purchased and estimated income and the number of times you have shopped there knowing that a EDL RFID won't be tossed. So I may be getting a little paranoid here but this seems to be a dress rehearsal for something bigger. -
I don't shop at WalMart, but if other stores follow this lead, then the RFID tags will go through the shredder like anything else I have with personal info on it does, before it gets thrown away/recycled.
As for Wally World being able to scan your enhanced drivers license, there are ways to prevent that.....
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And for those of you with passports.....
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Things were cool here for a few months till they let FORD out of the Faraday Cage...Comment
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I haven't set foot in a Wal-Mart in 12 years.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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All new passports now are RFID equipped. "Security" was the excuse given for the change, of course. The enhanced drivers licenses now available in many states will get you back and forth across either the northern or southern borders of this country without a passport. I actually thought about getting one last time I renewed my license, since I'm in a "border state", but then Little Stevie Wonderbush got re-elected up there, and I'm not in a big hurry to go to Canada as long as neocons are in charge. It used to be the place where I could go to escape right wing bullshit.
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RFID tags do NOT transmit unless you vibrate them with the correct frequency, within a short distance!
What's so NEOCON about the automation of data? Tell me! I want to know if you've ever had a job CLOSE to doing inventory, managing a database or had to reiterate the same data manually, over and over all fucking day long.
RFID is error-free, it means when scanned at the airport I'm not gonna get confused with a terrorist or some other nutjob one letter away from the same name, or getting my last name input as some nut jobs' first name or any other which-way wrong data could get you flagged off your flight: wrong address, wrong ID number, wrong anything.
I love RFID. Why don't you stick with attacking the actual, true NEOCON stroke job of The SoCalled Patriot Act, and DHS implementation instead of an automated mechanism designed to speed things along?
It's not like the Treasury is implementing some unusual reason for RFID such as, tagging the US money supply so you you'll get pulled off your flight to a Swiss banking institute with all that Democratic campaign cash.. especially if you privately-chartered a flight to dodge customs!
But I bet Tax-dodge Tim Geithner has that planned in the works, too. Sure, just pull out the security strip, and stick a super-thin RFID thread in its' place huh..
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