[LINK] So, you're worried about RFID?

[Deus Ex Machina]

Howard Lowndes [lannet at lannet.com.au] wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 20:56, David Boxall wrote:
> 
> >  From consumers' point of 
> > view, I guess the major benefit is that purchases could be rung up in an 
> > instant instead of being dragged over a scanner one by one.
> 
> I have a problem with this.  If you have more than one instance of a
> particular product in your basket, then the only way that the scanner
> can get all of them is if their IDs are absolutely unique, not just the
> same product code.  This really does lead to tying an individual product
> to an individual person, rather than just the person buying that product
> line.  Gotcha.

so what is wrong with that?

Vic