USA Today on RFID Legislation
USATODAY.com - RFID technology: To legislate or not to legislate?
“In terms of direct monitoring, the expressed fear is that someone in the manufacturing or sales chain may use information obtained from RFID systems to learn information about or track a consumer against her interests. As an example provided by the CEI, RFID could be implemented to understand a particular consumer’s purchases from a store and then ascertain when the consumer returns to the store. This type of information could lead to the store developing a “file” about the consumer and her purchasing activities.”
Nothing new- only important because it’s in USA Today and so on, but:
“it also raises privacy fears. Despite these fears, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) argues in a recent report that these fears”
fears fears fears? USA Today, call us. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/rfidnews-4.gif)
