{"id":19,"date":"2003-07-09T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2003-07-09T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T13:08:13","slug":"rfid-right-to-know-act-of-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"RFID Right to Know Act of 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) has called for a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nocards.org\"> moratorium <\/a>on the use of these chips.<\/p>\n<p><i>Albrecht paints a picture of the implications: ?Imagine walking into a store and having a computer take an inventory of everything you&#8217;re wearing&#8211;right down to the size and color of your underwear. Store employees could even read the contents of your wallet to determine whether you&#8217;re a desirable customer or someone they want to ignore based on your financial value. The possibilities for discrimination are quite disturbing.? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Today comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/newsflash\/washington\/index.ssf?\/base\/washington-0\/1057754112209620.xml\">this article<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><i>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Razor blades and medicines packaged with pinpoint-sized computer chips and tiny antennae that eventually could send retailers and manufacturers a wealth of information about the products ? and those who buy them ? will start appearing in grocery stores and pharmacies this year.<\/p>\n<p>Within two decades, the minuscule transmitters are expected to replace the familiar product bar codes, and retailers are already envisioning the conveniences the new technology, called &#8220;radio frequency identification,&#8221; will bring ? even as others are raising privacy concerns.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>More information can be found<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoidcenter.org\/main.asp\"> here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/55\/31461.html\">WalMart<\/a> is supporting implementation of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) has called for a moratorium on the use of these chips. Albrecht paints a picture of the implications: ?Imagine walking into a store and having a computer take an inventory of everything &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=19\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}