Guidelines for Radio Tags Aim to Protect Buyer Privacy

May 1st, 2006 · No Comments

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.

Radio tagging technology, called RFID for radio frequency identification, is already widely used in wireless toll collection systems and to control access to buildings, track livestock and manage industrial assets. It is also rapidly spreading into libraries, hospitals and systems that track consumer goods through the retail supply chain. Radio tags, which are based on microchips, carry more information than bar codes, and large numbers of them can be scanned at the same time.

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. The guidelines also say that it should be clear to consumers how to disable disposable forms of the tags and that it should be easy to do so once items with such tags have been purchased. Businesses are called on to notify consumers about how information gathered from the tags will be used. Guidelines for Radio Tags Aim to Protect Buyer Privacy - New York Times

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