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| China to issue 1.3 billion RFID identification cards
(ComputerWorld) posted 03/09/2006 ... to issue more than 1.3 billion second-generation resident identification cards based on RFID (radio frequency identification) chips, according to an industry analyst at I ... US.gov tunes out scathing RFID privacy report (The Register) posted 11/02/2006 ... Homeland Security has produced a highlight critical report advising against the use of RFID technology in government documents. But the scathing analysis remains st ... E-Passport: Doorway to the Panopticon (Strike The Root) posted 11/22/2006 Several years ago word got round that the US government was going to put an RFID chip into a passport. Privacy advocates rallied and ranted about the insecurity of the t ... Spanish Military RFID Tagged (Red Herring) posted 08/10/2006 ... U.S. retail giants have been slow to come around to radio frequency identification tags, RFID chips are now marching into the military—in Spain, said an RFID suppli ... BT: Don't worry about 'RFID Luddites' (ZDNet UK) posted 11/07/2005 The 'one man and his dog' organisations that are opposed to RFID are not worth worrying about, according to BT BT has claimed that companies interested in deploying RFID ... German Company to chip US passports (EFY News Network) posted 08/22/2006 Infineon Technologies, a Germany based company will be providing the electronic RFID chips that will be used in the new U.S. passports. The RFID chips digitally store each pas ... Wisconsin law bars forced RFID implants (Computerworld) posted 06/13/2006 ... of the first states to ban the forcible implantation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into humans. The ban begins on Wednesday, when legislation signed ... How to Kill RFID Tags with a Cell Phone (Scientific American) posted 02/15/2006 Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags--tiny wireless circuits that derive their power from radio waves and cost just pennies to make--have quickly found their way into id ... Casinos Gamble On RFID Gaming Chips: Casinos increasingly are turning toward RFID to protect against patrons trying to cash in counterfeit gaming chips and to stop cheaters at blackjack, poker, and other card tables. (Informationweek) posted 11/16/2005 ... said it has secured a major contract with Galaxy Resorts to supply more than 600,000 RFID gaming chips to the new Rio and Grand Waldo casinos scheduled to open in Macau, ... Two Victories for the Anti-RFID Crowd (Canadian Press) posted 06/06/2006 'Your industry is sick.' This was the opening line of an email received last week by RFID Update in reference to a televised interview on the Fox News Channel with VeriChip ch ... RFID chips embedded into collectable videgame cards (Pocket-lint) posted 10/25/2006 ... Innovision Research and Technology to create a new games platform that incorporates RFID technology into collectable cards. Hyperscan combines video games with ... Tracking Chip Implants Proposed for Legal Immigrants (Newsmax) posted 06/01/2006 ... Beach-based VeriChip Corporation, said in a 'Fox & Friends” TV interview that its RFID implant could be used to register workers at the border, and then verify thei ... RFID plane tickets to track travellers (Vnunet.com) posted 09/07/2006 ... London (UCL) are developing a system that combines radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and high-definition CCTV cameras to track passenger movements in busy airpor ... Europe tagging along on RFID (The Register) posted 03/10/2006 Viviane Reding yesterday reeled off a sheaf of figures on RFID’s expected growth over the coming years. The European Commissioner for Information Society and Media recko ... RFID Is Fit to Track Clothes (RFID Journal) posted 03/14/2006 ... in the price of tags necessary before widespread use can begin. Speaking at the RFID Forum, organized at CeBIT by GS1 Germany and German IT trade association BITKOM, ... Ontario Privacy Commissioner issues RFID guidelines (Globe And Mail) posted 06/21/2006 ... Commissioner. Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has announced that manufacturers of RFID technology must build privacy into their RFID designs. RFID tags, a next-gener ... Coalition objects to RFID chips for driver’s licenses (Government Computer News) posted 01/24/2006 ... licenses. In a letter to Secretary Michael Chertoff, the groups assert that RFID costs a lot, lacks standardized technology and poses potential dangers to privacy fr ... Scratch-off spy chips (P2pnet.net) posted 11/08/2005 ... often called spy chips. Under the 'clipped-tag design,' consumers could shorten a RFID tag's read range by simply scratching off the antenna, 'just as someone would ... |
