Those Demons at Wal-Mart Are At It Again

What's a week without at least one entree of nuts with a side of diatribe. If you don't have time to read this item, just remember these words: Don't buy the shoes.

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RFID tags in our livestock, in our pets, in our licenses, in passports, in food, in clothing and maybe someday in you. It is getting rather excessive. Fortunately there are a number of ways to kill RFID chips. See the Technical Documents section of the right hand sidebar for how to build your very own RFID bomb with which you can clear you home of unauthorized RFID chips. For the less technically inclined there is a simple device that most people already own which does a admirable job of frying RFID chips...

There is a new and more sinister reason for the vendors to be tagging your products - they are tagging you in the process. Scenario: you go to Wal-Mart and buy shoes with an RFID tag. When you check out you pay with a credit card. Using that information they link you to that RFID tag. When you return they are able to know that you walked in the store. They can then track where you move through the store and what you buy each time to learn about your interests and buying habits. This helps them target you with advertising so you'll buy more from them.

Target me with advertising? About products I care about? How dare they! They might actually have signs that tell me where in the world things are located in the store? This is getting out of hand.