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Some useful sites covering the privacy issues of RFID.
| 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. |
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