I got assualted in Tesco!

m.colak

Just thought i'd open your eyes what could be going on through the back door if you know what i mean;) . Have include the appropriate part of the act relating to serveillance now in previous post.

Butlers1982

What an annoying person you are. Wish i was there, id have showing you where to put the Banana!

m.colak

How many people are in your position that they know that this is going on sky and pinky i doubt many at all.

pinkshoes

m.colak wrote: »

How many people are in your position that they know that this is going on sky and pinky i doubt many at all.

I dunno... I think people know about it, but maybe not the extent of the Big Brother issues.

I mean, most people who use their Tesco card (see, it's ALMOST relevant to the thread) will notice that their offers they get in the post are relevant to what they purchase in store. i.e. if you buy alot of BANANAS, you'll get money off banana coupons! It's just a small step in the RFID world...

RFID will eventually sell itself to the consumer as a benefit, and given how lazy most people are, consumers will think of it as revolutionary!! :rotfl: I guess it comes down to whether people mind being monitored for the sake of pure laziness and convenience!?

m.colak

Tesco Card Utilise's checking your previous purchase's against current stock levels and then producing vouchers on either surplus stock or stock which is reaching it's shelf life.

RFID works like product placement and the subliminal ordours pumped out by most supermarkets (fresh bread near bakeries). Identifying people's progress through stores and able to identify common area's where large traffic passes through putting their best deals (for them) this reduce's the choice of people by usually natural herd reactions of people to sublimally insure that they get the most money out of every customer. For example have you noticed that all offers are usually in the centre aisle of a supermarket where most traffic occurs. Sounds simple but if you can add 5% extra turnover wouldn't you use this new technology.

Surveillance of people allows supermarkets inheritally coerce and manage the way people into thinking into the way most profitable for them (supermarkets).

Busybody

Labman wrote: »

OP

You picked up a bag of bananas & took one out.....why? Why did you pick up that bunch?

They are called Hands of bananas.

superscaper

pinkshoes wrote: »

RFID will eventually sell itself to the consumer as a benefit, and given how lazy most people are, consumers will think of it as revolutionary!! :rotfl: I guess it comes down to whether people mind being monitored for the sake of pure laziness and convenience!?

Although as far as the technology goes it's already in use. Security, keys, public transport payment, pet ID, libraries, cataloguing, hospital asset tracking, early earthquake detection, building structural fatigue, lost golf balls.

The application of the technology is genuine and wide and those examples don't have anything to do with collecting personal data at all (certainly not in the way they've been applied in real life so far). As I said it's about appropriate use of the technology, the technology itself isn't inherently bad or invasive.

uktim29

m.colak wrote: »

So far in this thread we have covered several infringes of civil libaties and human rights from the assault on a customer, false imprisionment and also the use of CCTV's. However i don't think many people are aware of a new infridgement which has been recently added to TESCO store's (at the moment from what i've read it's only the cambridge store but yours might be yours too). I'm talking about RFID. By these means the shop is able to tag certain products and follow their progress around the store picking up patterns in shopping trends or how the public utilise the shop also to follow the product from shelf to door. The wonderful thing is not many people are aware of this or aware that shops whom use this (like TESCO) are by law oblidged by law to state or tell customers that they utilise the system. The problem is there is still no legistration preventing shops from using this technology and therefore gaining information about you and your shopping habits for free before selling it on.

Next time you go into a supermarket or store as if they use this process as they are legally oblidged to tell you and if they do immediate report them as they are carrying out illegal surveillance without information ie (CCTV is in operation in this store).

Matt:mad:

What distress is this physically causing you though? The information gained would just be a path you've taken to go round a shop, there would be no information as to who actually took any particular path. So I can't see any mental distress/invasion of privacy issue.

superscaper

uktim29 wrote: »

What distress is this physically causing you though? The information gained would just be a path you've taken to go round a shop, there would be no information as to who actually took any particular path. So I can't see any mental distress/invasion of privacy issue.

That's what I don't understand because the Data Protection Act only protects personally identifiable information. And security surveillance as far as Regulation of Investigatory Powers goes I didn't think applied to your own private premises, in this case the supermarket. E.g. you can put up as many cameras as you want in your own home. I guess that doesn't cover things like observing tenants etc.

m.colak

The data protection act does deal with the use of CCTV and the invasion of privacy. Your right you can have as many camera's in your own home however if anyone comes into your home you actually have to inform them by law same again. The RFID system is actually linked into the camera system is you read the information about its use in the TESCO supermarket so therefore the CCTV camera's are now recording the person taking the item and therefore again is intrusive. Think how embrassed men used to get picking up a packet of condoms and now imagine there is a camera recording the fact that you picked up the packet and are walking round the shop. Your choice whether you like it our not am just pointing that this is a start. You son't have to be a weather man to determine which way the wind is blowing. Neither do you have to stand there when someone is p***ing on your toes.:D