Condom Tracking: Productive or Pointless?

At least it's not "reproductive". LOL

Sooo corny, yet hilarious xD

Pointless, as well as polluting.

Gross to much information, of course they are using condoms they gave them out at colleges ,do you really need to track that ???

You would think welfare office.

But kinda funny!

...freaks...

there's still the possibility that it'll break.

Pointless, intrusive, insulting, and more than a little bit scary, in a George Orwell kind of way.

Imagine a temperature sensitive RFID in the condom so that Big Brother can track in real time where, when and who is having sex.

Santorum would find this a great tool in battling people that don't live and act as he would legislate.

Do you think it has a tracking devise?

It doesn't but they technology makes it a possibility now.

There are RFID chips in paper money now. Look for the strip. Supposedly, if you have a large amount of cash in your house they can send a signal and note the amount of returned signal and that will let them know if you have millions in shoe boxes in your house.

I don't know if this is true or urban legend.

You said it! Hope the world realizes it before its too late...

utterly ridiculous

People would just skip the protection if they knew they were being tracked on having sex.
Knowing you're being tracked would be one way to ruin the mood and control population.

crass and absurd.

Makes me want to buy condoms and map all over Haha jk but I think they have a good idea here.

people will use condoms where people live... #duh

I don't think it would necessarily be that effective for promoting safe sex.

Good old progressives for ya. Next they will imbed a chip in so they can have a good time with ya.

Careful now Hula girl, we don't want to give the perverts any ideas!

I'm sure they already have when the sit around playing with themselves and no one will join in their fun.

People will latch onto the idea, I think... smart idea, and a nice 'tip' to condom-usage in general. ;-)

Pointless and tacky, tacky, tacky.

Loons on the loose at PP

All I gotta say is....... HUH?

Good grief.

for marketing and data tracking...

why do ppl willingly give up this information?

I stand gobbsmacked.

Why do you think it's for marketing and data tracking?

trust me, someone is already using it... data = $$$

I guess it does seem likely that they would sell the info to the condom companies.

While I laud Planned Parenthood's celebration of National Condom Week by releasing 55,000 condoms, I think tracking their use via QR codes is pretty pointless. I mean, the codes on the packages can be scanned, but the users are anonymous, so other than promoting safe sex, the tracking is rendered useless. Besides, the only thing that really counts is making sure that one's CURRENT sexual partner is using protection and/or is disease-free. And really, if I want to read about people's bodacious hookups, I'm pretty sure that Penthouse Forum would be more exciting. (Although I do dispute the claims of countless pizza delivery drivers who are met at the door by a bevy of buxom and horny sorority girls!) I'm not a big fan of having ANYBODY keep track of my sex life. I realize that Planned Parenthood's intentions are good in promoting safe sex, but lest we forget, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions!

how anonymous can they be if the scan and the phone are connected to a person.

i have serious doubts about the integrity of any marketing firm to secure personal data.

the next story you here will be about how some prominent politician scanned one of these when he was supposed to be home with his wife.

and what about the privacy of those who live at or near the places on the map?

how are they supposed to deal with rubber neckers (pun intended) driving by to see "where it happened"...

this is NOT a good idea.

I believe I already SAID that tracking condom use is pointless and rather an invasion of one's privacy, in so many words. If people are concerned about protecting their privacy, it's not like they are REQUIRED by Planned Parenthood to scan the QR codes on their condom wrappers or make bawdy comments on the map pinpoints about their sexual encounters. (Which, IMO, is extremely crass.) Also, the map doesn't provide the exact address of the person who is weighing in on this project. As I said, I support Planned Parenthood's efforts to promote safe sex, but I think this is a rather useless, even bad, way to go about it. Just put PRACTICE SAFE SEX on the condom package and call it a day. And if a prominent politician is asinine enough to actually scan a QR code from a condom wrapper into his smartphone before banging a woman (or a man!) who isn't his wife, then IMO, he doesn't deserve to be holding a public office in the first place. As for marketing ploys used for gathering personal information about users and customers, I concur. Sadly, the invasion of our privacy continues to get worse, since websites like Facebook and Google have changed their policies, and will use and disseminate your data to others, unless you jump through hoops to secure your account. Thanks for your comments, and have a great day!

so why are we arguing?

Call me clueless, but I didn't know we WERE arguing! I thought we were engaged in a simple give-and-take of thoughts and opinions, and really, we seem to be on the same page about electronically tracking people's sexcapades via QR codes on condom packages. BTW, nice use of the pun "rubber-necking!" [haha]

Why do you think the campaign is from a marketing company?

who collected and posted the data? pp?

no, they hired somebody.

I guess they probably would have.