RFID Promoter GMA Hires World’s Dumbest Intern

Coca Cola, Proctor and Gamble and Gillette, as represented by the RFID tag promoter Grocery Manufacturer’s Association (GMA) have been caught trying to dig dirt on lead privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht. The firm sent Albrecht, the head of the Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (Caspian), an email asking her for her biography. When she asked why they wanted the information (as one might expect a privacy advocate would do) an intern reportedly sent an accidental reply, apparently intended for his or her boss and not Albrecht:

“‘I don’t know what to tell this woman! ‘Well, actually we’re trying to see if you have a juicy past that we could use against you.””- Wired News

This might be a good case for firing the intern’s superior as well as the intern.