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October 01, 2004
 RFID proponents think tracking your purchases is a grand idea, but when it comes to tracking them, not so much.
Privacy advocates have turned the tables on RFID manufacturers, snapping pics of tracking tags (and the products containing them) soon to hit the market and posting them on the Web.
Frontline Solutions says CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) took "unauthorized" pictures of CheckPoint RFID tags at Frontline's Solutions Conference & Expo in Chicago and posted them to sites such as www.spychips.com, www.spychips.org , www.nocards.com and www.nocards.org. The company says CASPIAN head Katherine Albrecht "falsely represented [herself] as a member of the press."
Albrecht countered that she received press credentials, which she wore at all times. She also discovered tags in "diapers, tissue boxes, baby formula, cold medicine and vitamin," the paper said.
Via The Register
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