RFIDNews | RFID Concerns, Tag Blockers

Thursday, September 9, 2004

As you may know there are a number of weblog format RFID websites, RFID News amongst them. Some are targeted: RFID Concerns and Tag Blockers both focus on overcoming the social problems to be caused by RFID. The related sites share categories such as “Opposition,” “First Page” and “Advertisement,” and both apparently walk a tightrope between irrelevant and bizzare.

From Tag Blockers:

“With blocking tags, we now seem to be developing dubious high-tech solutions for a problem we wouldn’t have had if we hadn’t already over-extended high-tech solutions to simple problems.”

Editors urge readers not to over-extend.

EarthSearch inks deal to curb oil theft, Nigeria

EarthSearch Communications has entered into a partnership agreement with Cynox, the Nigerian technology solutions provider, to monitor fuel levels in oil tankers.

In Nigeria, the cancellation of government oil subsidies has lead to increasing concerns over oil theft. EarthSearch’s integrated RFID and GPS product, together with level sensor technology will be used to monitor sudden drops in fuel level to detect the unauthorized siphoning of oil from the top of tanker.

FTC wants comments on facial recognition

Federal Trade Commission staff is seeking public comments on the issues raised at a FTC workshop exploring facial recognition technology and the privacy and security implications raised by its increasing use.

NXP leads the contactless ticketing market, according to ABI Research

In ABI Research’s newest market study analysis, NXP Semiconductors has reportedly claimed the top spot in the contactless ticketing market with 74% of the market share.

New survey shows over half of retailers rely on passwords for POS logins

Authentication and access provider DigitalPersona released the results of a survey that found more than half of retailers rely on passwords for point-of-sale system login in, even though they also have great concerns over passwords being shared and misused.

Target, Walmart et al. to make their own mobile wallets

Some two dozen retailers, including heavyweights Walmart and Target, are preparing their own mobile wallet services in lieu of existing solutions like Google Wallet, Isis and PayPal, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Report: NFC payments here to stay for 9 out of 10 users

Nine out of 10 previous users of contactless mobile payments are likely to use the technology again in the near future, according to eDigitalResearch’s new Mobile Payment Index study.

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