Tesco Gillette RFID trial – privacy concerns

In January 2003 Tesco and Wal-Mart announced plans to install ’smart shelves’ to keep track of sales of RFID-tagged Gillette Mach3 razor blades.
The Tesco trial in Cambridge, UK was met with criticism, especially after the US based Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy and Invasion and Numbering revealed in July 2003 that anyone taking a pack of blades from the shelf had their picture taken.
The shelf disappeared soon after and it appears that Tesco is limiting the use of RFIDs to the less controversial tagging of whole pallets and cases, for the time being.