Best Practice Guidelines for RFID Announced
Some of the opponents in the debate over the potential privacy abuses of identification and tracking systems using tiny radio tags have come together to draft best-practices guidelines that are to be released today at a technology trade show in Las Vegas. Among other things, the guidelines say that consumers should be notified when goods have radio tags, which can be invisibly buried in labels, packaging or the goods themselves.
Guidelines for Radio Tags Aim to Protect Buyer Privacy, New York Times, May 1, 2006.
