EC and RFID

Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding announced at CeBIT that the European Commission will be formulating a recommendation on data security and user privacy in radio frequence identification (RFID). For the sake of technology neutrality in legislation, I hope she won’t be tempted to go too far beyond guidelines on how to make the technology comply with existing regulation.

On the other hand, RFID and its applications (such as the E-id) may in a not so far away future bring us close to an Orwellian world. I look forward to the report of the stakeholder group the Commissioner will appoint.

~ by kristofn on March 20, 2007.