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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The RFID technology firm, Advanced ID Corporation, has issued a progress report on its efforts to commercialise livestock-tracking and identification technology globally, concluding that the technology has already been well received in seven countries, and that the market will continue to grow. “We are very encouraged by our progress to date as we have been […]

Business and IT executives from Wal-Mart, Target Stores, HP, and Kimberly Clark are set to discuss the issues surrounding RFID with their suppliers during one of the three opening sessions at the ‘Retail Systems 2004/VICS Collaborative Commerce’ conference in a panel entitled ‘EPC Here and Now: A Fireside Chat about RFID’ on Tuesday May 18th, […]

UPM Rafsec will supply RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) label transponders to the South Korean pharmaceutical company, Unimed Pharm Co., Ltd, for the tagging of individual packages of over-the-counter drugs. The agreement consists of the delivery of 100,000 RFID labels during 2004. Unimed Pharm will use the RFID labels in an effort to identify original drugs […]