The head of an independent administrative body in Norway has flagged concerns with the imminent launch of Norway's ePassports. Anders Jacobsen from RFID Buzz points to this interesting bit of...
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People are most concerned about misuse of data in connection with RFID identification cards -- and not about RFID technology itself. That's one of the conclusions reached in a recent survey...
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Hat tip to the Open Society Paradox......
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A Danish privacy consultant and a security company have joined forces on a novel approach to RFID tag security in the retail supply chain. Stephan Engberg of Open Business Innovation has developed...
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I am impressed with the better job the U.S. government departments are doing with their RFID communications outreach these days. When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced a...
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RFID was the subject of a claimed world record this year at the Defcon hackers conference. Some young men from a company called Flexillis claimed to have set a world record when they read RFID tags...
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Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson comes out and promotes Americans getting chips implanted under their skin in order to alert healthcare workers about medical...
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Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWatcher outlines the challenges faced by the industry in fighting legislative attempts to limit RFID usage: "Technology companies however, are generally lousy about...
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Engadget cites a Ubiks report about Omron's employee monitoring system. I quote from the Engadget article: "This new bit of 'production management' technology in use by Japanese...
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There they go again in California! A bill is quickly moving through the legislature there, proposing to limit RFID tagging in state identity documents. Banned uses for RFID would include student...
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Here's an intriguing idea: instead of RFID tag data being in the control of the manufacturer or retailer after the tagged item is sold to the end consumer, why not have ownership of the RFID tag...
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Did you know that the CIA forsees a time when ubiquitous computing will be part of the fabric of our lives? A report by the CIA (yes, that CIA -- the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency), outlines a...
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The California school that was testing an RFID-badge system to track students, has halted the program. The company developing the system -- that had asked the school to beta test for them -- has...
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The RAND Corporation, a research think tank, has issued a paper outlining privacy concerns about RFID-enabled access cards in the workplace. The paper, entitled "9 to 5: Do You Know if Your Boss...
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School kids in Japan have been wearing RFID-tagged identification devices. Now the first elementary school in the United States, in the rural town of Sutter California, has adopted RFID-enabled...
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is going to test RFID tags at border crossings in Arizona, Washington state and New York. RFID is designed to track visitors to the U.S., and will match up...
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Here's an interesting suggested solution to the RFID privacy concerns: give consumers the ability to disable or mask output from RFID tags on consumer goods at home. That way consumers will have...
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More voices are now being heard in the privacy debate over RFID. The Free-Marketers have jumped into the fray. Sonia Arrison of the Free-Market think tank the Pacific Research Institute, has written...
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