WAL-MART SUCKS AND SUCKS

From the Register:

Have you ever wondered what it's like to buy lipstick while in a petri dish?

Consumers in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma know this experience all too well. They were part of a real-world RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) experiment conducted earlier this year by Wal-Mart and Proctor & Gamble. The two U.S. giants placed hidden RFID tags inside of Max Factor Lipfinity lipstick with little mention of the affair to consumers, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

A disgruntled P&G employee informed the paper of the study, which is one of the first of its kind in the U.S.

Needless to say, such technology strikes me as being easily abused, and any evil, prehensile entity like Sam Walton's foul offspring that routinely peddles its corporate home-spun image as being somehow benign is not to be trusted. I, for one, do not want Wal-Mart spying on me through an electronic device embedded in a wad of Charmin during my quality time in the bathroom.

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Thanks to J. Orlin Grabbe for the link.

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