The Times reports on the drive of Katherine Albrecht, leader of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion as well as Numbering (CASPIAN) to safeguard the privacy of consumers. Albrecht, who has already saved consumers from Gillette’s “smart shelf” which photographed those buying razors, has decided to brand Marks & Spencer her side yesteryear side target because of their proposed purpose of “smart tags.” The tags, affectionately known to Ms Albrecht every bit “spy chips” are embedded into goods or their packaging as well as tin travel tracked yesteryear scanners connected to the internet. As good every bit allowing thefts as well as counterfeiting to travel to a greater extent than easily detected, the tags allow companies to locate stock that has been misplaced or wrongly shelved. However, they boot the bucket on transmitting until they are “killed” as well as according to Albrecht:
“Everything from your earnings to what’s inwards your briefcase would travel sending out information…My describe of piece of occupation organization is that this volition travel tied inwards amongst Britain’s CCTV surveillance system, as well as you’ll travel literally nether surveillance at every turn.”
Albrecht’s mission is biblically inspired. She claims to travel fighting against the scenario envisaged yesteryear the Mark of the Beast inwards Revelations xiii, where it is said that in that location would travel fourth dimension when people would non travel able to purchase or sell nutrient without a number.
says: “The protection of mortal belongings rights yesteryear minimising theft as well as counterfeiting is a laudable objective but consumers’ privacy should every bit good travel protected. The simplest trend to strike a residuum betwixt the ii would travel to ensure that the tags are “killed” 1 time a consumer buys tagged goods.”
Spy chips here
Mandatory Big Brother references here, here as well as here
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