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CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering RFID chips, tiny tracking devices the size of a grain of dust, can be used to secretly identify you and the things you're carrying--right through your clothes, wallet, backpack, or purse. Have you already taken one home with you?
CNET RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages (1/03) Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future? I'm not talking about having a microchip surgically implanted beneath your skin, which is what Applied Digital Systems of Palm Beach, Fla., would like to do. Nor am I talking about John Poindexter's creepy Total Information Awareness spy-veillance system. Instead, in the future, we could be tracked because we'll be wearing, eating and carrying objects that are carefully designed to do so.
EFF RFID Privacy Libraries, schools, the government and private sector businesses are adopting radio frequency identification tags, or RFIDs - a technology that pinpoints the physical location of whatever item the tags are embedded in. While this may seem like a convenient way to track items, it's also a convenient way to do something less benign: track people and their activities through their belongings...
Junkbusters RFID and Privacy Junkbusters opposes the leakage of live RFIDs into the consumer world because such information would certainly be collected and used by marketers in ways that people would not want if they knew about it. To protect privacy, any business selling an articles to consumers containing an RFID device should permanently disable them at the point of sale. Alternatively, the device should be attached with an explanatory warning to a tag that the consumer would typically remove prior to use, such as a price tag on a garment. Businesses that allow RFID devices to escape live from their premises are recklessly endangering the privacy of their customers.
RFID Talk Privacy and other Impacts of RFID Privacy, consumer protection, regulation and other policy issues here.
RSA The Blocker Tag: Selective Blocking of RFID Tags for Consumer Privacy The RSA Blocker Tag is an invention of RSA Laboratories scientists in conjunction with Prof. Ronald Rivest. Consumers will almost certainly wish to possess live RFID tags in many of their belongings - for "smart" appliances, prescription refills, automated payment, store returns, and so forth. At the same time, they do not want their RFID tags to be scanned indiscriminately. The RSA Blocker Tag is itself a RFID tag -- in size and cost much like a conventional RFID tag. The RSA Blocker Tag, however, helps consumers to manage their live RFID tags in a privacy-protecting manner.
Spychips RFID Privacy Issues And News. How "spychips" pose a threat to your privacy.
TechWorld RFID tags make it into bank notes (9/03) Imagine a world full of money that can tell you where it’s been spent. Hitachi has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip that requires no external antenna and makes possible the embedding of tracking and identification chips in bank notes, tickets and other paper products. As with competing chips, Hitachi's Myu chip requires antennas through which data can be received and transmitted to a chip reader, all of which draws power. In the case of the current generation Myu chip, this antenna can be between five centimetres and seven centimetres long.
Yahoo! Groups Underground_Economy A list for those who are interested in learning how to fly under the radar net of TIA, customer tracking, "know your customer" credit card and bank records tracking, RFID, Digital Angel, ID chips, biometrics and other violations of human rights (specifically the right to privacy) by the functional merger of government and business.
ZDNet Subcutaneous RFID tags upset privacy advocates (10/04) The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a plan to allow hospitals to place RFID tags under patients' skin, much to the chagrin of privacy advocates. Privacy advocates are outraged at the US Food and Drug Administrations' approval of using RFID chips inside humans for medical purposes. The VeriChip, which is about the size of a grain of rice, is designed to be injected into the fatty tissue of the arm. Using a special scanner, doctors and other hospital staff can fetch information from the chips, such as the patient's identity, their blood type and the details of their condition, in order to speed treatment.

 

Privacy Headlines

ZDNet UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC
The European Commission is pursuing privacy-infringement proceedings against the government, saying UK privacy law does not comply with European legislation

ZDNet ICO: Companies hiding behind privacy policies
Firms need to make privacy notices accessible and not pepper them with legal jargon, according to the ICO

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