Boycott Benetton
I've seen some recent articles about the clothing manufacturer Benetton, using embedded ID chips in their products to facilitate tracking of the articles of clothing through a new model of information gathering for inventory, security and customer purchasing demographics. Tiny tags, "somewhere between the size of a grain of sand and a speck of dust" are to be built directly into consumer products including clothes, food, drugs, auto-parts etc. during the manufacturing process. What I want to know is, why do these tracking devices remain active after you leave the store?