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Privacy and Security
by Anita Campbell on December 16, 2005

Using Obivision's technology, the concept is simple: RFID tags would freely transfer data while an item is in the supply chain. However, once the item goes to the consumer at the point of sale, the tags would be switched to "privacy mode" and the consumer is in control. The tags broadcast no data unless the consumer wants them to.
Stephan Engberg, the head of Obivision, makes the point that the privacy debate does not have to be an either/or kind of debate: either RFID or privacy. Instead, he says that we can get the business benefits of RFID while still allowing consumers to protect themselves from the threat of invasion of privacy that might come from uncontrolled RFID tags.
Recently he pointed me to a European Union Commision working group that sought comments from around the world on RFID technology and privacy.
Stephan submitted his own Comments to the working group and noted to me: "I think you will find my input interesting. I honestly don't see, what the privacy fuss is about. *** As Nike say - Just do it (right)."
Read his comments to the EU working group on RFID and privacy (PDF).
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Response from:
Drug Rehab
(05/30/07 7:41am)
You can achieve all the benefits of the integrated networked economy. Security, business value, convenience and basic freedoms .. simultaneously! It's all about designing with the right frame of mind.
Response from:
vitamins
(06/28/07 9:43am)
The privacy of people is very much visible to others. It is very beneficial to gain more privacy by taking course into action, and insisting into doing that.
Response from:
National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
(08/13/07 8:39am)
Biometrics and RFIDs can be spoofed and faked. In the future criminals will not use anonymising
gloves; they will use your fingerprints, relay/fake your RFID keys and use other means to prove
they are you. The value of being you is access to everything you own, have security clearance to
and the ability to create crimes and assume debt in your name.
gloves; they will use your fingerprints, relay/fake your RFID keys and use other means to prove
they are you. The value of being you is access to everything you own, have security clearance to
and the ability to create crimes and assume debt in your name.
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