Food and Drug Administration Propose to Track Medicine with RFID
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the use of radio frequency identification tags to help fight counterfeit prescription drugs, privacy advocates are cautiously watching to be sure consumer privacy isn't lost in the process. The problem is that the FDA is considering more than just tracking large shipping containers or crates of medicines with RFID tags; it could also use the tags to track individual medicine bottles or even individual tablets.
Privacy groups question RFID use in medicine tracking, ComputerWorld, October 14, 2005.
