Retailers Plow Ahead With RFID Chips

iwon news ^ | May 20, 06 | BRIAN BERGSTEIN

[mylife]

bingo!

But hey..Ive been thinking of marketing an RFID "disabler" to the tinfoil crowd

[mylife]

Intermec

[Blueflag]

Thank you for the ad hominem attack. Now, please explain why RFID chips in pallets and some packages are a risk to the citizenry AND add power to the State.

Also, please explain HOW this passive RFID chips work.

Either reply with substance or go away.

The knowledge your credit card company has about you DWARFs anything that could be gained form an RFID inventory tracking wafer.

[FranklinsTower]

Zebra Technologies. They make the printers that print RFID tags. Check out it out at Zebra.com.

IMHO, it would be a good buy now that RFID is moving away from the early adopters into wide spread use.

The stock took a few hits recently as they did not have the kind of growth rate some investors were looking for.

To me it is more of an issue of how long it takes to roll out RFID integration projects.

I have owned the stock for years. It is a great company.

Good luck!

[Blueflag]

Dude, start here for example.

http://www.rfid.averydennison.com/us/rfid_faq.php

[Blueflag]

Zebra, got its start in BARCODES which were even more sinister than RFID - they were feared by some as the mark of the Beast. A zebra has stripes, and so do barcodes, thus the old company (which name I forget) re-branded to Zebra Tech.

I think you'll find Zebra is big in BARCODE printers, not RFID wafer or chip technologies.

[Enterprise]

I've merely expressed my dislike for them and an opinion. Don't call me dude, and YOU go away.

[mylife]

Dont make me seperate you two! ;-)

[freedumb2003]

If the legislators are not going to ban them, then at least, they should require manufacturers and retailers to inform the customers where the chip is placed with instructions on how to remove or disable it after they leave the store.

Why? They don't transmit. Do you cross of the UPC bars on your cereal packages? Because RFID is just as dangerous as a printed UPC code.

[FranklinsTower]

Yes they are big in bar codes. Go to Zebra.com and type RFID in the search and see for yourself.

They have been RFID players for years.

It's funny how nobody really seems to complain about bar codes anymore!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

The next step is in restocking the consumer directly. Imagine an intelligent pantry, that issues restocking orders when things get low.

[mylife]

I think many are under the impession that RFID transmits, and indeed those systems exist for semi trucks to be tracked.
But RFID at retail level is a passive system as you say no more intrusive than barcode but a LOT easier to inventory!

Active RFID would be cost prohibitive on retail items.

Also the entire idea that gubmint is tracking our everymove is silly. Its like the phone records thing.
The gubmint simply doest have the power of the will to track all the mundane details of our daily lives

[freedumb2003]

The gubmint simply doest have the power of the will to track all the mundane details of our daily lives

My life ALONE would set a big part of the Gummit complete asleep from boredom ;)

[durasell]

THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS ON MY CREAMED CORN!

[mylife]

It's funny how nobody really seems to complain about bar codes anymore!

Complacency..Thats how they getcha! /sarc

Funny no one gives a toss about posting on the net when it comes to privacy. do a google on you screenname to see what I mean

[mylife]

perzactly

[Enterprise]

Then we're all in agreement then, that at the time of purchase there should be instructions to the purchaser on how to remove or disable the chip. That's all I'm really asking for. Is that too awful much? Hmmmmmm?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

LOLOLOL

[freedumb2003]

No, since it is benign. An RFID chip DOES nothing.

Like I asked -- do you take a marker and black out UPC codes on your groceries?

[durasell]

I'm almost afraid to say anything, but have you ever looked into the tagants?