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Post by veggiewoman on Nov 26, 2006 8:33:11 GMT
I had an impulse buy this weekend when I saw this: www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9781843537922,00.html?sym=SYN The rough guide to Ethical living. By Duncan Clark. has a lot of interesting facts , some as you can imagine are very contraversial , but all the same an eye opener. One I did read which , imo , is totally ridiculous - saying people should boycott Gillete razors blades becuase it used "spy chips" ina certain make of blades becuase they for a time were popular with shoplifters! IMO that is NOT a valid reason to boycott something , shoplifters are criminals. I am def getting this book for a few people for christmas lol. Makes for fab readng and a great eye opener imo. www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9781843537922,00.html?sym=SYN
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Post by astrocat on Dec 24, 2006 14:13:26 GMT
www.boycottgillette.com/aboutrfid.htmlI reckon that if people don't want to buy a product which might negatively affect their own, and others' health, while invading their privacy, then that's fine by me. From what i gather most people are very laid back about that which is their deal (although I'm not wild about it since it could harm others' health to actively support this type of electromagnetic radiation by buying the products, and not just their own) , but conversely I can;t see the issue if people opt not to buy RFID-chipped products. "it's to stop shoplifting" is the 'official line' , but to me it seems like they want to be able to sneak in these devices without any consumers knowing their photo etc is being taken... I'm not in favour of a hidden-cameras society, but Gilette clearly is. Even though they clearly make a huge profit despite the shop-lifters. That group sent them this letter, which they apparently did not respond to - www.boycottgillette.com/letters.htmlThat said, a better reason to boycott Gilette is because they abuse animals in order to "test" their razor blades. RFID technology is by definition rather feeble right now.... they can;t simply track people as they go about, it only works at very close range..... but I could believe that it could easily be the first step on a downward slide.... as technology develops i could easily see a society where every product just comes with an integrated RFID chip rather than a barcode, where companies keep close track of who buys what, where, and what they do from day to day, and perhaps uses that information to bombard them with junk-mail, or passes it onto the government in exchange for extra subsidisation.... I'm not rabidly against it or anything, personally i think they would have an amazingly tedious time trying to track my daily habits as any adverts go in the bin, and I have M.E so i only rarely go out anywhere. If the technology became strong enough to track people, then I suspect that a lot of people would try to bugger up the system by tying RFID-chipped things to baloons and setting them free... so it's not the most practical way to track a populace's movements anyway. But, I'm just saying that I can understand why people feel uncomfortable with meekly accepting RFID technology, and wouldn;t have a problem with people who try to avoid buying RFID-chipped products.
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