Walmart uses RFID in some stock to track customers around store

[sharingwisdom]

Full article can be found from DailyFinance: https://srph.it/a0RTEA (https://srph.it/a0RTEA)

Walmart (WMT) uses data-mining services to collect and store information for all its customers in a central location. This allows it to determine the purchasing behavior of people who shop in its stores or on its website. It also optimizes inventory distribution by determining which products people are most likely to buy in the future. In August, Walmart began installing Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) in their underwear and jeans, which lets them track items and customers around the store. This means they are able to determine how much time someone who buys a specific pair of pants spends in each aisle. Walmart plans to use this data to reorganize displays and further control inventory. The retail giant also sell this information to thousands of other businesses, who use consumer profiles for advertising and demographic research.

[podfish]

... Walmart began installing Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) in their underwear and jeans, which lets them track items and customers around the store. .... If you want to be paranoid about RFID, there are a lot of bad scenarios that are possible. Imagine someone with a scanner hanging out at the exit to the mall, scanning people as they leave so he can do his "shopping" by following someone home. Actually, the RFIDs may well be left in the product, so the miscreants can just drive around neighborhoods scanning for targets.

<disclaimer: I don't really think this is all that scary a threat - it's less of an issue than identity theft, for example. But it's not imaginary, either>

[sharingwisdom]

Paranoid because I am saying what is going on in this country. That is your term, and mine is educating. I have known about this RFID technology for over 10 years. They aren't "left" in the products. They are purposely put in the products. And if you happened to actually read the article, you would have seen all the different ways our security is majorly being tampered with. I'm glad Miles posted about the anti-war activists, on Democracy Now, being arrested because on that page was a link about RFID chips used on children in CA which I posted a couple months ago. Happy that Democracy Now has brought it up too. https://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/9/concerns_raised_over_use_of_computer
It's wake up time unless you want "Minority Report."



If you want to be paranoid about RFID, there are a lot of bad scenarios that are possible. Imagine someone with a scanner hanging out at the exit to the mall, scanning people as they leave so he can do his "shopping" by following someone home. Actually, the RFIDs may well be left in the product, so the miscreants can just drive around neighborhoods scanning for targets.

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