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August 30, 2006
Procter & Gamble Products You May Want to Avoid
No more waking up to Folgers for me! I mistakenly bought this Procter & Gamble brand coffee at the store the other day because the label indicated it is was made by the Folgers Company. Turns out that P & G owns the Folgers brand.
CASPIAN does not currently have a boycott against P & G, but like many of you, I have decided to avoid purchasing its products because of its involvement in promoting item-level RFID. (We do have a boycott against its recently acquired company Gillette! See www.boycottGillette.com.)
Procter & Gamble was instrumental in starting the ball rolling on item-level tagging, and it was involved in the notorious Lipfinity RFID spying at a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Wal-Mart. What's more, P & G has a patent pending titled "Systems and Methods for Tracking Consumers in a Store Environment." Need we say more?
Since reading fine print on product labels may not always reveal their connection to P & G, one of the world's leading spychippers, here's a table that you can take with you when you shop. It comes straight from P & G's 2006 annual report:
--Liz McIntyre
Posted by liz at August 30, 2006 12:08 AM