IBM's 'clipped' RFID tag technology should pacify the privacy fanatics

Here's news that should make the RFID privacy fanatics rest easy... IBM has developed a "clipped tag" technology, offering consumers the ability to tear or scratch off RFID antennae, eliminating the threat of an un-authorized reading of the tag.

The really clever part of this is that if a person brings the item back to the store for a refund, the tag still works if held directly to a reader. But without antennae, no one in the street is going to be able to know which shade of lipstick Betty Bob bought in the first place or is returning.