Hong Kong airport picks RFID baggage tracking “[Hong Kong Airport] announced that to “improve customer satisfaction” a baggage tracking infrastructure using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will be installed. The baggage tracking system, which will be the single largest RFID deployment in Asia, will be provided by Matrics Inc., a large designer and manufacturer of EPC […]

Digital Angel Corporation, an advanced technology company in the field of rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets, today announced that it is well-positioned to participate in the EU-mandated pet passport program slated for implementation on October 1, 2004. Regulations issued by the European Parliament and the Council of the […]

Precisia LLC, a developer of advanced printed electronics technologies, announces that it is the first company in the world to produce fully functional radio frequency identification (RFID) tags with high-speed printed antennas in one location. This breakthrough will hasten the implementation of RFID technology for major retailers and their suppliers. In synthesizing printing and electronics […]

< ? $key="2718"; ?> The media and consumer advocate groups have criticized RFID as a threat to personal privacy for years. The industry is beginning to respond in forms of conferences, research and most importantly, corporate policy. This first issue of the RFID News monthly magazine provides a context of the debate through historical references, […]

It’s clear that unresolved privacy issues hinder the widespread adoption of retail RFID systems. But another major market, the library, has also been touched by controversy. As a historical battleground for intellectual freedom and privacy, libraries serve as a cultural litmus test for technological development. Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), was quoted […]

Katherine Albrecht is the Founder and Director of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) What factors have contributed to the news media’s negative portrayal of RFID technology? By its very nature, RFID technology is disturbing to people. According to Procter & Gamble research published in January 2003, 78% of people surveyed respond negatively […]

Individuals are the subjects of accelerating commercial data collection. When two parties transact, a record of the meeting is formed. Technology allows broad aggregation of these occurrences. An individual’s interest in controlling this information leads to an interest in preventing his own identification (by others). Thus to limit information existing outside of an individual’s domain […]

While the RFID industry has focused in the last couple of years on developing complex hardware to meet commercial demand, a group of companies are beginning to push low-end, inexpensive tags that could eventually impact the supply-chain. These products use exotic fabrications or magnetic signature techniques to provide a low-cost automatic ID alternative to traditional […]

Jack Grasso is the Senior Director of Public Relations for EPCglobal US. What factors have contributed to the news media’s negative portrayal of RFID technology? Much of the early work and publicity surrounding RFID was focused much too far into the future and on applications outside of the supply chain. Pervasive item-level tagging is many […]

Patrick Burns is a Senior Manager in Verisign’s Corporate Communications Group. What steps should companies exploring item-level RFID programs take to protect their customers from perceived or actual violations of privacy? One of the things that early developers of RFID have already discovered is that information about products is stored much better on a network […]