watching your step

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“The ability to surreptitiously collect a variety of data all related to the same person; track individuals as they walk in public places (airports, train stations, stores); enhance profiles through the monitoring of consumer behaviour in stores; read the details of clothes and accessories worn and medicines carried by customers are all examples of uses of RFID technology that give rise to privacy concerns.”

- EU working document on RFID, January 2005, as quoted from Spychips by Katherin Albrecht and Liz McIntyre.