Dan Swartwood is a Data Privacy Officer for Hewlett-Packard’s World Wide Customer Privacy Office. Should there be federal legislation limiting the use of RFID technology and the information it is able to gather? HP has been and continues to be an advocate for omnibus privacy legislation. In the U.S., we continue to legislate privacy in […]

Cédric Laurant is Policy Counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He concentrates on international privacy issues, comparative policy, as well as the legal aspects of European and US privacy regimes. What factors have contributed to the news media’s negative portrayal of RFID technology? Various recent stories in the media have revealed that RFID users […]

The goal of most RFID systems is to increase the granularity of effective inventory counts to know what items are where, and when. By grouping products and attaching a tag to a case or pallet, a number of items can be tracked simultaneously as they travel together. With all but the most advanced of today’s […]

Vendors and implementers considering even the most benign RFID programs are painfully aware of the negative portrayal of the technology in the mainstream media. Frightening articles linking warehouse inventory systems to science fiction’s visions of ubiquitous and invasive personal advertising abound. Consumer groups picket the moment RFID moves to the point of sale, whether tags […]

Verifone has raised the stakes for contactless payment support with a new module for the Omni 7000MPD family of POS terminals. The new module, offering support the ISO 14443 standard protocol, can be added to the base Omni 7000MPD and 7100MPD terminals prior to shipping or as a field upgrade after deployment. This announcement comes […]

Largest Single Order in Malaysia Sets New Record – Malaysia’s Largest MasterCard Merchant Acquirer Chooses Hypercom Terminal Technology Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) today announced another major win for its highly popular EMV-certified T7Plus card payment terminal and operating software as MBF Cards, the largest MasterCard merchant acquirer in Malaysia, agreed to […]

Offers Indala Customers Unparalleled Flexibility for New and Legacy Upgrade Applications Indala Corporation announced today its highly-flexible EM SERIES of proximity card readers, which are available with two popular, industry-standard communications protocols for three separate options–26 or 40-bit Wiegand and ABA T2–in the same reader design. For the first time, due to its open-protocol platform, […]

Aviorel International Joins Labcal’s Network of Partners Labcal Technologies Inc., a Quebec-based company delivering authentication solutions based on fingerprint, smart card and public key cryptography technologies, is pleased to announce its new partnership with Aviorel International for the representation of its products in the defence and aerospace market throughout Europe. The Manager of Aviorel, Mr […]