[LINK] Privacy-Friendly Tags for Retail Items

[Adam Todd]

I don't understand why the tag itself can't be totally removed by the 
cashier as the item is cleared at the checkout.

A tag that can be "torn" off by the consumer can just as easily be torn off 
by a their who intends walking out the entry just as easily.

Am I missing the point of the tag?  Is it stock management and theft 
protection or is there another motive?


At 05:24 PM 15/11/2006, Geoff Ramadan wrote:
> From press release:
>http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/2803/1/1/
>
>Marnlen Makes Privacy-Friendly Tags for Retail Items
>
>The label maker is using IBM's Clipped Tag design, allowing consumers to 
>tear off most of a passive RFID tag's antenna on items they have purchased.
>By Claire Swedberg
>
>Nov. 8, 2006—Marnlen RFID, a division of label maker Marnlen Management, 
>has licensed IBM's Clipped Tag, a design allowing consumers to tear off 
>most of a passive RFID tag's antenna on purchased items. Hangtags based on 
>the Clipped Tag design are production-ready, says Andris Lauris, Marnlen's 
>vice president of business development, and sample tags have been shipped 
>to several of IBM's 10 Centers of Excellence for demonstration to 
>prospective customers. In addition, Lauris says, Marnlen is working with 
>unnamed potential customers, such as garment retailers and the 
>pharmaceutical industry, to pilot the tags.
>
>
>
>This should help alleviate some of the privacy concerns.
>
>Regards
>
>Geoffrey Ramadan, B.E.(Elec)
>Chairman, Automatic Data Capture Australia (www.adca.com.au)
>and
>Managing Director, Unique Micro Design (www.umd.com.au)
>
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