Katherine Albrecht
Katherine Albrecht
Katherine Albrecht is the founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She is a consumer privacy advocate and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification. Albrecht devised the term "spy chips" to describe RFID tags such as those embedded in passport cards and certain enhanced United States driver's licenses. Katherine Albrecht holds a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University. She is a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire...
aware call consumers data help people understand vulnerable
This is kind of a wake-up call to help people understand what's out there. I think consumers are increasingly aware of how vulnerable their data is in these databases.
link paycheck wrong
It's wrong to link a person's paycheck with getting an implant.
crossing line
That's where Pfizer is crossing the line here a little bit.
benefits consumer inventory issue managing poses serious
While we do see the benefits of RFID to managing inventory for retailers, we think the item-level tagging poses a serious issue for consumer privacy,