PRIVACY CONCERNS GROW AS RFIDs BECOME POPULAR
October 1st, 2010
BY ALAN OSBORN, KARRYN MILLER, FLORENCE LABEDAYS, GAVIN BLAIR
PRIVACY is the big bugbear for RFID tags. Sure they give retailers and manufacturers lots of excellent information, but there is a hint of Big Brother about how this automatic data collection. That's not good marketing.
But the European Union (EU) executive the European Commission seems to be brushing aside such concerns. It appears determined to push RFID technology as part of its ambition to establish the EU as a major technological power in the global market-places of the next few years. Officials ...
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