Privacy questions arise as RFID hits stores
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BALTIMORE--Proponents of radio frequency identification used to have a quick and easy response to consumer advocates charging that the technology posed an alarming threat to privacy.
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A new RFID-chipped passport card that can be read up to 30 feet away -- and on which the data's not encrypted -- has drawn censure from the Centers for Democracy and Technology, which foresees covert location tracking and an increase in ID theft on the horizon. (If you filed an objection to this program already, by the way, the government says you just don't understand it.)
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IBM (Quote, Chart) has launched a suite of RFID (define) services for mid-market businesses and industrial sectors. The new services are geared for companies that typically employ 1,000 workers or less.
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As retailers collect more personal information into databases, computers are handed increasing power to make decisions about consumers' lives.
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Long ago, when businesses kept sensitive information locked away in file cabinets and safes, it was relatively cheap and easy to store valuable data and control who had access to it. Today, enterprises invest millions in security, storage, and compliance technologies -- all in the name of increasing visibility into where vital electronic information lives and how it is being defended.
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Itâs never too soon to worry. And when it comes to RFID and its related technologies, you might want to start now. Between private sector and government mandates, both large and midtier companies can count on being required to have what some call âedge-to-edge visibilityâ for any shipped product in the near future.
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Imation today announced it will begin selling special tape cartridge labels that contain an RFID chip that can be scanned and used to track tapes through inventory lists and alerts. A GPS location system is soon to follow the initial RFID label product.
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Companies brace for privacy debate as potentially intrusive applications arrive faster than expected.
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Despite speakers at the EPCglobal US conference talking up the benefits of radio frequency identification, many US companies are still waiting to see a clear reason to adopt RFID technology.
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The U.S. government's plan to use RFID chips in a proposed passport card program for U.S. citizens is drawing fire from certain groups concerned it could undermine security and privacy.
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The United States plans to issue passports with personal data stored on radio frequency identification chips. The documents would be harder to forge, but might leave holders vulnerable to identity theft. By Ryan Singel.
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A dispute about the security of RFID access techniques - and how to hack them - is heating up at a government-themed trade show.
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Sun, an early leader in support of RFID, announced today the creation of a retail compliance test center that will simulate a Wal-Mart distribution center in order to evaluate RFID tag compliance for vendors.
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This company has just started using some new RF guns in its warehouse. Workers use the handheld terminals to scan RFID tags on the conveyor -- or at least they're supposed to.
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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Big companies exploring ways to verify identities online
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As a standards-setting body readies a protocol for radio frequency identification, known as RFID, a bid for royalties from a holder of critical patents has threatened to disrupt the smooth rollout of a technology that could spawn one of the decade's biggest industries.