RFID privacy concerns are global
Dibya Sarkar writes in FCW.com:
Privacy concerns over the use of radio frequency identification technology aren't confined to the United States. Officials in Europe and Asia have completed or are developing guidelines and directives to ensure that RFID technology is used properly.
The European Commission's advisory board on data protection and privacy, known as the Article 29 Working Group, will soon release a final version of a working document on RFID. The document addresses concerns about data collected surreptitiously by tracking people's movements in public places or monitoring consumers' shopping habits.
The document is not legislation, but it could serve as a guide for member states in the European Union to writing legislation, said Florent Frederix, a European Commission scientific officer for network and communications technologies, who spoke at a recent RFID conference in Washington, D.C.
This also seems like a good time to point out (again) RFIDkills.com.
posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2005 09:01:00 AM
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