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WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!

 
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Bullshit.

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Not going to argue. I've said pretty much all I'm going to say.

Take it or leave it.
 Quoting: Pole Cat


You are right. That is what my husband said, too.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Companies also use them to track fraud.


and no...didn't watch it on youtube.

I don't post much and the only reason I posted on here is because I have seen the data myself. As mentioned a company I used to work for used these for many reasons and yes...you can pinpoint these with gps.
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Prove it...bring a link to a company selling these that show specs citing GPS location...NOT SOME DAMN U-Tube Crapola.

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09/11/2015 08:14 PM
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Re: WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!
Very common theft prevention tool. You will find them in the tags or sewn into the garmets of most clothing and permantently affixed to other high value portable items here in the USA.

They don't transmit anything without an RFID reader nearby.
 Quoting: Taewen


You are talking about those heavy plastic things on items of value that if not take off, will make an alarm sound when you try to leave.

This is different. It looks like a small circuit board.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Everybody knows what you're talking about and all saying the same thing.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69263183

OK...we had never seen one before, and I don't like it. It violates my human sovereignty. It is an invasion of privacy.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Been seeing them since before the internet, like 1993-1994 at least.
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They are trackers. My husband is an electrician, and he destroyed it. He told me it was a tracker...freaked us both out.
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What kind of product was this in, MW?
 Quoting: mehitable 3687021


It was taped to the back of a book I ordered. It freaked me out.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


They have been putting those in books for years to curb theft.
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Re: WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!
these are also in shoes! I don't recall where purchased but the insole was loose and when I lifted it there this thing was, my spouse is a electronic tech and knew right away what it was, it had a sticky back and I took it into town and stuck it to a car in a parking lot. maybe not the right thing to do but it rid me of it. at the time I was in a custody battle and we didn't know if it came in shoe or was placed there as daughter had worn my shoes to her fathers home. wont ever forget it no matter where it came from, was a very odd feeling that it was in my shoe.
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these are also in shoes! I don't recall where purchased but the insole was loose and when I lifted it there this thing was, my spouse is a electronic tech and knew right away what it was, it had a sticky back and I took it into town and stuck it to a car in a parking lot. maybe not the right thing to do but it rid me of it. at the time I was in a custody battle and we didn't know if it came in shoe or was placed there as daughter had worn my shoes to her fathers home. wont ever forget it no matter where it came from, was a very odd feeling that it was in my shoe.
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It is spooky to me to find one of these in your home.

It looked kinda like these at this link:

[link to www.tiny-circuits.com (secure)]
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09/11/2015 08:28 PM
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Very common theft prevention tool. You will find them in the tags or sewn into the garmets of most clothing and permantently affixed to other high value portable items here in the USA.

They don't transmit anything without an RFID reader nearby.
 Quoting: Taewen


You are talking about those heavy plastic things on items of value that if not take off, will make an alarm sound when you try to leave.

This is different. It looks like a small circuit board.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Everybody knows what you're talking about and all saying the same thing.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69263183

OK...we had never seen one before, and I don't like it. It violates my human sovereignty. It is an invasion of privacy.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Don't be silly you got your parcel now chuck the chip in the bin and it's gone. It's not like Amazon didn't have your address to deliver too. They made sure they knew where your parcel was till you got it. That's it. You would have been the first to complain if your parcel didn't turn up, and they couldn't tell you where it was.
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You are talking about those heavy plastic things on items of value that if not take off, will make an alarm sound when you try to leave.

This is different. It looks like a small circuit board.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Everybody knows what you're talking about and all saying the same thing.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69263183

OK...we had never seen one before, and I don't like it. It violates my human sovereignty. It is an invasion of privacy.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Don't be silly you got your parcel now chuck the chip in the bin and it's gone. It's not like Amazon didn't have your address to deliver too. They made sure they knew where your parcel was till you got it. That's it. You would have been the first to complain if your parcel didn't turn up, and they couldn't tell you where it was.
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If I had failed to take it off the book, and I went somewhere carrying the book, they would have been able to track my whereabouts. That is an invasion of my privacy!
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If I had failed to take it off the book, and I went somewhere carrying the book, they would have been able to track my whereabouts. That is an invasion of my privacy!
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Why would you not take it off. First thing anyone would do surely.
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Re: WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!
the one in my shoe was green and was like a electronic board not like the big anti theft devices that they take off and not like the little anti theft stickers in like a bottle of over the counter meds... a circuit board without question, thickness like paper with copper colored areas in the board, a very odd feeling no matter where it originated at or what its purpose.
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I'm surprised this is the first you've seen of them. They've been all over since the 90s.
Who has won when nothing remains?
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Re: WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!
the one in my shoe was green and was like a electronic board not like the big anti theft devices that they take off and not like the little anti theft stickers in like a bottle of over the counter meds... a circuit board without question, thickness like paper with copper colored areas in the board, a very odd feeling no matter where it originated at or what its purpose.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70305923

This is exactly how I feel about it, too.

My husband is a very down to earth electrician, and he had never seen them anywhere but in tech.
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They are trackers. My husband is an electrician, and he destroyed it. He told me it was a tracker...freaked us both out.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Thank you for the link.

Check out Smart Dust when you have the time Mountain Woman...
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They are trackers. My husband is an electrician, and he destroyed it. He told me it was a tracker...freaked us both out.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Thank you for the link.

Check out Smart Dust when you have the time Mountain Woman...
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You are welcome. I will right now.
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Re: WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!
same here, spouse had only seem them in high tech areas of his work, was a shock to find. I wanted to burn, he insisted that I take it somewhere else so its last location was not our address.
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Very common theft prevention tool. You will find them in the tags or sewn into the garmets of most clothing and permantently affixed to other high value portable items here in the USA.

They don't transmit anything without an RFID reader nearby.
 Quoting: Taewen


You are talking about those heavy plastic things on items of value that if not take off, will make an alarm sound when you try to leave.

This is different. It looks like a small circuit board.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Everybody knows what you're talking about and all saying the same thing.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69263183

OK...we had never seen one before, and I don't like it. It violates my human sovereignty. It is an invasion of privacy.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Sovereign is when you don't give away your power to someone who will be your master.
If you vote, you are a subject and not a sovereign.
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same here, spouse had only seem them in high tech areas of his work, was a shock to find. I wanted to burn, he insisted that I take it somewhere else so its last location was not our address.
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That is what my husband did.
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I remember one of my college textbooks had 6 of them
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[link to www.cnn.com]

Even when deployed for science or the public, some people still get a Big Brother feeling -- the uncomfortable sense of being under constant, secret surveillance -- from the idea of putting trillions of monitors all over the world.

"It's a very, very, very huge potential privacy invasion because we're talking about very, very small sensors that can be undetectable, effectively," said Lee Tien, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocate.

"They are there in such numbers that you really can't do anything about them in terms of easy countermeasures."
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I think it's time you guys change out your tin-foil.
Must be wearing thin..
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I think it's time you guys change out your tin-foil.
Must be wearing thin..
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No, we just changed to the heavy duty aluminum since finding the tracker.
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They are trackers. My husband is an electrician, and he destroyed it. He told me it was a tracker...freaked us both out.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


You and hubby better learn to get out more, or something...

These are used to track/take inventory, prevent theft, etc.

They are everywhere and simple technology that companies like Barnes and Noble put in essentially every one of their books.

Moran.
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They stick em in things like books to prevent retail theft. The make the alarm ring at the front door if the cashier doesn't "de-magnetize" it first. Amazon probably bought the stock off some book store chain that went bankrupt and they left them in.

1dpanic
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No, I know what you are talking about, but this was a circuit board. My husband said he had only seen these in electrical equipment.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Changing light bulbs at the truck stop doesn't make one an electrician. It's an RFID chip, nothing more. Sheesh.
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Not going to argue. I've said pretty much all I'm going to say.

Take it or leave it.
 Quoting: Pole Cat


You are right. That is what my husband said, too.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


Companies also use them to track fraud.


and no...didn't watch it on youtube.

I don't post much and the only reason I posted on here is because I have seen the data myself. As mentioned a company I used to work for used these for many reasons and yes...you can pinpoint these with gps.
 Quoting: Pole Cat


Prove it...bring a link to a company selling these that show specs citing GPS location...NOT SOME DAMN U-Tube Crapola.

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64052526


RFID technology acts similarly to a GPS geofence, but can be an alternative approach where a lower cost option makes more sense. Readers can be installed in your facility to track when assets enter or leave your warehouse. RFID tags are used both in conjunction and independent of GPS tracking technologies.

[link to www.apriso.com]
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Those are in library books!
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Hope there's not one of those in my foil hat!
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You probably want to take them out of your blu ray movies you buy too. They are little different looking than these though and glued to the inside of the case.
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Re: WARNING: I found one of these in something I bought from Amazon. It is an invasion of privacy!
I'm surprised this is the first you've seen of them. They've been all over since the 90s.
 Quoting: DenizenOfHell


^^^ This.
The second you showed one, I immediately knew what it was ... anti-theft RFID thingy. I used to see them all the time years ago. Like DOH said, I'm surprised this is the first time you and your husband have seen one. Now that I think about it, I haven't seen one in a LONG time. It's definitely not an invasion of privacy in any way.
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They are trackers. My husband is an electrician, and he destroyed it. He told me it was a tracker...freaked us both out.
 Quoting: ^^Mountain Woman^^


So, you have the intelligence of a ham sandwich and your husband is roast beef.

That is an RFID tag. It is only activated in proximity to a retail store's checkout counters or doors. It's for theft prevention and inventory tracking.

Be honest, now; are you mild Down's Syndrome?





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