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Consumers have plenty to say to Gillette about its RFID spy chips. Add your message by writing: Dick_Cantwell@gillette.com Sorry Mr. Cantwell... ...but my privacy is much too important. I am now in my second month of boycotting both Gillette and Walmart, and have told dozens of other consumers of your exploits. A complete PUBLIC RENUNCIATION by Gillette of this outrage is what it will take to win me back. A little respect please?? Jack B.
Mr. Cantwell, I was shocked to hear that Gillette was using RFID devices
to photograph consumers without
permission. Please be advised that I will no longer
purchase Gillette products until I have
assurance that this ridiculous violation
of my rights has been stopped, and some form of apology issued.
Sincerely, Dear Dick You have lost me, a customer of 20 years, due to your policy of spying on consumers. I'm trashing my Gillette products. Adios amigo, I have always bought Gillette products. However, after reading about RFID, I will no longer buy your products. This is a invasion of my privacy. You do have the right to keep track of your product on the shelf. You do not have the right to photograph me and track me through a store. You do not have the right to photograph or track me after I leave the store. I am now going to my bathroom to remove your products from my home...maybe you will get a kick out of following your products through my trash, which by the way, is my personal business that you do not have permission to photograph! Done with you, Dear Mr. Dick Cantwell, This is to let you and your stockholders know that I am boycotting your products immediately. Thanks to Mary Starrett's article: http://www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett21.htm I imagine you value your privacy as much as I do mine, so I'm sure you'll understand why I don't want to be photographed when picking your product up off the store shelf! I suppose the technology is there now to know when I'm actually using the razor or deodorant or any of your other products. Put yourself in my shoes, for a moment if you will: I have no paid servant who can go to the store for me anonymously to purchase photographable items for me. In the name of technology and corporate greed, only God knows who you will sell information like that to! I hope you all will change your mind, because if you don't - I won't. Gillette will be a nasty word in our house until the day comes when you stop playing candid camera with unsuspecting comsumers' privacy. Susan C. N.... Dear Mr. Cantwell, I will boycott all Gillette products until RFID project is ended I am appalled by Gillette's entry into the field of Big-Brother-type spying on citizens with RFID. You may be assured that I have ceased buying Gillette products and will continue to boycott the company until such time as these intrusions cease for good. Yours truly,James S.... Escondido, CA RFID is a violation of consumer rights!!! The Auto-ID center EPC Symposium which will discuss "The Best Thing Since The Bar Code" is only a way to get corporations to utilize an "ear-tag" for humans to track us and follow our habits against our will and without our consent. I hope that your attendees will be smart enough to know they'll be tracked as well when these microchips are inserted into their clothes and shampoo bottles. That when they don't want to be seen or known, they'll be tracked by "Big-Brother." -A very UNHAPPY consumer, which will no longer be buying products used by corporations that utilize RFID chips on their products I already have to drive past 4 supermarkets to avoid the ones that require "club cards". Now I have to cross Gillette (as well as Duracell, Oral B and Braun) off of my shopping list. I understand that your tracking, picture snapping system is of value to deter shoplifters but I now feel as though I cannot purchase your products because, IMO, you are watching me. I have been purchasing your products for over 30 years, but I will no longer buy your merchandise. I know losing customers here and there is not what you care about. Corporations are just about maximizing profits and do not care about consumers or employees. Shame on you! IMO, corporations such as Gillette by implementing ideas such as your spy chips are a bit too similar to Big Brother from Orwell's 1984. I urge you to reconsider implementing your spy technology. Your misguided effort to deter theft is more than I can stand and reminds me of the RIAA actions against teenagers. Corporations already have the reputation of being quite dishonest (most of the thinking people I know think of corporations as being crooked) and now they want to be spying on individuals too? You have the opportunity to help preserve privacy in America. You must choose wisely. Choose to preserve individual rights or choose to allow individual freedoms to be taken away, one by one. I do not want Gillette tracking me around any store. Ben S.... Hey Dick I am e-mailing you to ask what right do you think you have to take photos of people and track where the bought products go? Also, WHY are you doing it? What benefits do you actually get from taking stupid photos of people who buy the products. I find it very invading, and to be totally honest from now on I wont be buying any of your products, nor will any of my friends. I pay enough money as it is for shaving products, and to find out that you are spying on us is unbelievable. I am pretty sure this is illegal to do without consent from the person buying. Either way, I am going to report you to trading standards, or speak to the Citizens Advice Bureau about this one, because it is not right, especially when nothing what so ever has been mentioned. At least if you put a big sign up saying "Smile your being filmed if you buy any of these products" it would give the person the choice to buy it or not. Gary A...UK I have made an educated decision concerning Gillette using and Pushing RFID's, therefore I will not be buying any Gillette Product every again. Sir, I am disgusted with you, your company, and other companies that want to track and trace everything I do. Sir, its none of your business. No, I've nothing to hide, It's called the 4th and 5th Amendment. Gillette Products here are no longer allowed in my household. Nate L.... Sir- This is precisely the kind of ill-conceived concept that leads to a pervasive, invasive, totalitarian government. May you and your family be the first "off to the gulag" as a result of this dim-bulb program. Tom G.... I say no to spy chips. Leave our privacy alone. My shaving and other personal needs have most always included Gillette, but not any more. I will use other brands that respect their customers. Gary in Missouri I'd rather look like a hairy French whore than purchase any further products from your company. Consider me not one of your 'satisfied customers' I can't wait for a Harris Poll with Gillette to come my way. Lisa As the Title says, we're very dissapointed. http://www.boycottgillette.com/spychips.html Scott Those who live in fear of dying, die in fear of living.
Will not buy your products any longer, including Duracel, etc. Shame on you for spying. Craig C.... I was able to confirm existence of smart tracking technology and smart shelf technology in several products, and I will refuse to buy any products from gillette until I can confirm that this technology has been removed. Dear Mr. Cantwell, I have recently discovered your Gillette spy shelf and the associated hidden camera used to track customers. I want you to know that I will be boycotting Gillette products including your Oral-B toothbrushes, Braun appliances, Right Guard, Soft and Dry, Dry Ideas and Duracell batteries. I will not allow a company to invade on my personal shopping habits. I want to assure you that I will be letting everyone I know about this and encourage them to also boycott your company. Please reconsider putting customer privacy first. Mike O'M.... Mr. Cantwell, I am appalled that a company like yours, (of whom I have bought many products and am a huge fan of) would stoop to such a degrading level! How dare you think it is legal and moral to spy on the unwitting consumer. What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of the answers given by simply having an employee ask legitimate questions of consumers in person? When you invade my civil liberties, you go TOO FAR! I would urge anyone to boycott your company! You clearly are not interested in the privacy of your consumers. What would you do if we as consumers chose to spy on you? What if we went through your financial records and see who you have been in bed with? I had hoped a company that has existed as long as you have, would utilize their brains for better endeavors. If you want the truth, ASK FOR IT, don't try to sneak around so you can run if the truth hurts. Schuylar W. C...., N.C.M.A. Dear Dick, I am a retired police officer in good standing from a large
police department. Some one emailed you on the boycott website wanting to
support you and wondering why everyone else was feeling so violated about
the spy cameras etc. PJ. S...., VBPD. ret. Dear Sir, It has recently been brought to my attention the fact that
you have started to incorporate Radio Frequency Identification chips in some
of your products, maybe all - this is not yet clear to me. Personally
I find the prospect and the implications of such a move as threatening, disturbing
and quite possibly an abuse or at least encumbering to the freedom one should
expect to receive in a democratic (for democratic I idealistically mean
free) country. Yours sincerely, Dear Mr. Cantwell, It has come to our attention that Gillette is placing RFID chips in their products, ostensibly to: A. Keep track of purchases?
As a comsumer, Mr. Cantwell, we, nor ANYONE with whom we have to do (which includes thousands of folks) REFUSE to be manipulated by such a dastardly scheme as Gillette, as well as, other companies, plans to perpetrate AGAINST the public. Rest assured there will be MANY more voices added to the outcry of those who've taken a stand AGAINST Gillette and ALL other companies with the audacity to play "THE SPY CHIP" game. Regards, Dear Mr. Cantwell , As the Gillette Executive and chairman of the MIT Auto-ID Center that developed this whole RFID-scheme, we d'like you to know that we rather grow beards than buying anylonger any Gillette , Duracell , Oral-B etc. products . RFID-tags everywhere , spy-cams in the shelfs to track consumers behaviours and so on - thank's a lot for this real confident treatement and stick it where you like it too, O.K. ? PS : Maybe the Iraqis don't care this much about RFID-tags at this present moment, maybe you try it once over there . If in doubt, ask Uncle Bush. For the Heyyanka Foundation Switzerland , the chairman : Jan A I am outraged to learn that Gillette is photographing people and tracking them with RFID devices. As a result, I will join millions of others in boycotting Gillette products. Sincerely, Dear Mr. Cantwell, Allow me to say that I have just recently begun using the Mach 3 Razor blades after having used Trak II and Trak II Atra for as long as they have been on the market. So far I have been pleased with the results. However, I am very disappointed to hear that Gillette is beginning to use the RFID chips and at the least condoning the secret photographing of customers. I see no need for such an invasion of privacy. Because of this, I will discontinue the use of any Gillette products until such time as the company agrees to stop using the RFID chips and vows to not do business with a supplier, distributor, wholesaler or retailer who does use RFID chips. Let us save all ourselves a lot of grief and "just say NO!" to RFID chips. Sincerely, Ray M.... I hereby declare that I will no longer be buying any products from your company including: Gillette Oral-B Duracell Batteries Silk Epil brand Deodorants: Right Guard, Soft & Dri, Dry Idea Shaving cream: Gillette Series, Satin Care The reason is because I oppose any companies that use and/or
I will also be sponsoring a test market direct mailing campaign
to further explain what RFID is, why
it is of concern for the consumer,
and your companies promotion of said RFID technology.
Dear Sir, After reading several articles alerting me to your company's use of RFD tracking devices and your refusal to answer question concerning this blatant invasion of my privacy and that of other persons. I wish to inform you of this pledge: From this date forward, I and everyone in my immediate family will REFUSE to PURCHASE or CONTINUE to USE ANY Gillette product. Also, I will inform anyone that I come in contact with, of this heinous practice of inserting tracking devices into product packaging that facilitates the collecting of unauthorized images and data from unknowing victims. Sincerely, Greg H.... Wilmington, OH I will not buy any spy chipped products! Cindy I have stopped buying your products ( NO SPY CHIPS !!!) As a consumer of Gillette products for over 40 years, I am sending you this e-mail to inform you I will no longer use ANY of your products due to your company's decision to use the RFD technology. I will not allow a company to invade on my personal shopping habits. Since you and your company have decided to use this technology, I have decided to take my business elsewhere. It is a shame that after 40 years, I can no longer trust your company to do the right thing,. Vanessa H.... Mr. Cantwell, I've been buying your products for years now, ever since I was old enough to shave. Well, until you stop your plans to implant them with chips and take pictures of those who buy them, I have stopped supporting your company through my purchases. Further, I will encourage my family, friends, and associates not to buy your products until you've stopped the plans/practice recently reported on by various news sources. Sincerely, Thomas E. R.... Jr. "Hey, GILLETTE: WE WON'T BUY PRODUCTS WITH SPY CHIPS!" Phil & Heather L....-K.... Mr. Cantwell, Your invasion of privacy in using RFD technology in your products will cause me to stop using your shaving products. Besides the privacy issue, it is certain you will pass the cost of this technology onto the consumer - for a product which is already grossly over priced. The road to hell is always paved with good intentions and your scheme is the poster child for this old adage. Benjamin Franklin stated that the people who give rights for a little safety (protection) deserve neither. Gillette does not deserve my business either. I'm changing to Schick. Darryl M.... comments: One way to fight the spy shelves used by Gillette: Hold a sign over your face that reads "Boycott the Spies at Gillette" and move the tagged items, triggering the camera. If a bunch of folks do this, perhaps they might get the idea that they are losing money. This works even better if the hand holding the sign also holds a rival product which you then purchase. When curious shoppers ask for an explanation, you can add them to the protest. Just loan them your sign. Be sure to buy other things at the store, to keep from
getting tossed out as an annoyance. managers tend not to toss out folks who
are going to buy $75 worth of merchandise. Dear Dick, We have been to the boycott Gillette web site and we are not happy!! Unless CASPIAN receives a positive reply we will be boycotting
your products and advising all of our customers and employees to do the
same... Mr. Cantwell, I have just viewed the boycott gillette web site (www.boycottgillette.com). I certainly hope that this is just a ruse. If it turns out to be true, you may rest assured that another Gillette product will never enter my household. The unmitigated gall of you people never ceases to amaze me. Good Day, Dear Mr. Cantwell, It has come to my attention that Gillette is involved with putting RFID into its products to be used on the customers as a means of security. As a purchaser of Gillette products this concerns me very much since this is a surreptitious invasion of privacy. There is also the unknown health hazard on the human body if this technology saturates and permeates our living space. Therefore I must protest in the most vigorous terms that this technology not be used but be set aside in deference to our right of privacy and to avoid any potential ill effects on our health should the intensity and magnitude of them increase dramatically. I am aware that a mere protest can have little or no effect in the ocean of hidden agendas or potential profits so personally if they do insinuate themselves (RFID) into products that would be in close proximity to me and mine I will boycott them and trust those agents which have the required knowledge and sophisticated technology to keep me apprised of the various forms and hiding places wherein these chips might find themselves. Sincerely, Dear Mr. Cantwell, I will not be purchasing any Gillette products in the future.
I will not support any person or business that uses tracking chips. I support
the boycott on Gillette products, and will encourage my family and friends
to do the same. Mr. Cantwell, I believe this RFID tagging idea is a bad idea. Your company may be looking at potential lawsuits with this situation coming into the news. I myself will be throwing away my Gillette Sensor Excel for women, Satin care shaving cream, Braun products, Duracell batteries, and oral b products. I will never buy them again till you stop this RFID deal. I will also voice my concerns to my friends, family, and anyone else I talk to. Thanks, Dear Sir, What is this I'm hearing about Gillette literally spying
on consumers? What exactly is the motivation behind this? Why can't you
just make a good product and let the consumers make their own decision?
That's the basis of capitalism. The more you disrespect the consumer, the
less chance this system has of Sincerely, ps: I shave with regular old disposable razors. If you
make a decently priced razor with a narrow head, stop testing on animals
and spying on humans, you'd get a dedicated customer.
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 03:37, Michael M.... wrote: Once again an innovation is resisted. Yes, there
are some reasons to believe that the product chips may be misused,
However, there are many reasons to believe that the use of these chips
could reduce the cost of many of the products we buy. Michael K. M.... Our response: Michael: Having to "learn" to be searched, photographed, tracked, and surveilled is a terrible way for a free people to live. I will avoid Gillette products as an expression of this belief. I encourage you to make purchases based on your own
beliefs, which in With best wishes for continued freedom, Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN Dear Mr. Cantwell, My husband and I, and many friends and co-workers of us with whom we have shared the information about your implementation of Radio Frequency IDs with, are very up-set about your decision. We feel strongly that this is an insult to our privacy and even worth .... you are subjecting us involuntarily to something which is detrimental to our health. Here we try to live healthy, buy organic etc., have a regular exercise program and you don't give it a 2nd thought that all your customers out there are being treated unfairly BY YOU ! You do not even realize that you are on the wrong side because of greed. So many other companies will do the same and before you know it your own house is full of it as well .....you might even have RFID in your cheese and eat it. I suggest you make a real effort to learn that in the end you are not only hurting your helpless customers who trust you. but also yourself, your wife, your kids, your parents and so on. Mr. Cantwell, RFIDs ARE BAD FOR OUR HEALTH ! The choice to listen to us is yours. However, be assured greed always has it's repercussions. Sincerely, Helga T.... This is just a fraction of the e-mail Gillette has received
(not to mention the huge number of phone calls to Gillette's customer service
hotline). |