Backlash against RFID is growing
Citizens’ rights of privacy and rights groups have voted against Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, for years. But now, researchers in the field of law and some donors at the beginning of the votes are concerns about the safety of the technology.
Last year, twenty-two countries have legislated on RFID technology, which uses tiny chips issuer, or “tags” which can be inserted in a full range of products, a pair of jeans or a passport.
The technology companies improves the ability of observation and inventory of equipment - a prospect that was for the pleasure of Wal-Mart (charts, Fortune 500), Best Buy (charts, Fortune 500), Kimberly - Clark (charts, Fortune 500 -), maker of Scott tissues and Huggies diapers-and others. A large number of high-tech firms are also behind.
However, a small but growing number of public safety technology experts and some lawmakers fear uncontrolled use of RFID will lead not only to listen, falsification of documents and piracy, but also a society in which an individual is in danger of privacy and on the stage If the reading distance of objects they carry.
For these reasons, the California State Senate is mulling legislation that will prevent the use of RFID in the licensing of drivers and public schools and drag the safety standards of documents issued in the State, RFID, as well as the prohibition surreptitious advertising.
“It’s a setback,” said California State Senator Joe Simi Tian, a Democrat and a sponsor of the legislation. “Governments are growing concern at a number of reasonable privacy.”
Simi Tian, Silicon Valley is a circle and asks himself a bekennender “Booster technology-innovation”, asked the RFID technology “big”. But he readily admits that the concerns about its use. Simi Tian said he had the problem with RFID leader, they say “in the field of long-term interest” to security.
RFID Booster are behind a $ 650 million, industry should be growing at 2.1 billion within four years, according to ABI Research. The industry has already seen being a consumer boycott of companies such as Tesco and Procter & Gamble (charts, Fortune 500)-owned Gillette on the use of RFID chips in the package, but so far the adoption of the technology has been steadily growing industry and great interest to promote.
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