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Samstag, 23.11.2024
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Radio Frequency Identification

  • USA: Agencies Affirm Privacy Policies for RFID

    A panel of government officials explained how agencies are trying to build privacy safeguards into potential U.S.-issued RFID-enabled IDs.

    U.S. government agencies are trying to build consumer privacy protections into applications of RFID-based secure microchips being considered for identification purposes, representatives of several agencies said during a panel discussion sponsored by AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) in Washington, D.C.

  • USA: Authentication, ID are in the cards

    RFID, biometrics are integral to many of DHS’ plans

    Robert Mocny, deputy program manager for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, has a simple vision for making the borders more secure.

    It doesn’t have to do with 12-foot fences, or unmanned aerial vehicles or anything fancy. It is a simple card combining two technologies that have been around for decades—biometrics and radio frequency identification.

  • USA: California throws up RFID roadblock

    The California Senate has approved the first legislation in the country to block state and local government agencies from issuing identification cards containing radio frequency identification tags.

    In a May 16 29-7 vote, the senators passed SB 682, the Identity Information Protection Act, which prohibits California public agencies from issuing ID cards containing “a contactless integrated circuit or device that can broadcast personal information or enable personal information to be scanned remotely.” The description covers RFID devices and tags, among others.

  • USA: California to revisit RFID restrictions

    The California Assembly next week will begin considering a partial ban on radio frequency identification that would allow the technology to be used for certain types of identification cards, but only if shield devices and other privacy protections are employed.

    The legislation is an amended version of SB 682 that was approved May 16 and would bar all California public agencies from issuing ID cards containing RFID tags.

  • USA: California: Scare tactics limiting potential of RFID technology

    The potential uses of various radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies has created quite a bit of discussion in California among policy-makers, the tech industry and privacy advocates.

    This debate is centered on several pieces of legislation being considered in Sacramento that would ban the use of RFID, including high-security contactless smart cards, in many state government agencies and programs.

  • USA: Coast Guard secures facilities with biometrics, RFID system

    To understand the promise biometrics and radio frequency identification technology hold for the Homeland Security Department, look no further than two Coast Guard facilities—one in the District of Columbia and one in Washington state.

    At Coast Guard headquarters in D.C., a voluntary program—which both campuses use—called RapidGate lets vendors gain easier access to the facility by voluntarily registering for a biometric identification card.

  • USA: DHS Privacy Office Bashes RFID Technology To Track People

    The Department of Homeland Security's Privacy Office has issued a draft report that strongly criticizes privacy and security risks of using radio frequency identification devices for human identification. Public comment on the paper is being taken until May 22. p> The privacy office says the technology offers little performance benefit for identification purposes compared with other methods and could turn the government's identification system into a surveillance system.

  • USA: DHS privacy office slams RFID technology

    The Homeland Security Department’s Privacy Office has issued a draft report from a technology analysis group that strongly criticizes the personal privacy and security risks of using radio frequency identification device units for human identification and says the technology offers little performance benefit over competing methods.

    The Privacy Office is seeking comments on the report, which are due by May 22.

  • USA: Diabetics have got RFID under their skin

    Patients voluntarily sign up for human chipping scheme

    While the privacy debate around RFID chips still rages, 18 diabetics in the US have voluntarily signed up to have the tags put under their skin.

    The 18 were implanted with the chips by RFID company VeriChip at the Atlanta Diabetes Expo.

  • USA: DLA to deploy RFID equipment at distribution centers

    The Pentagon’s objective to have all its distribution centers capable of receiving shipments with passive RFID tags has come closer to fruition with a newly awarded contract.

    ODIN Technologies of Dulles, Va., won a Defense Logistics Agency deal to deploy passive RFID equipment at 26 facilities globally by the end of 2007. The award is worth up to $7 million.

  • USA: Funkchips für Hurrikan-Opfer

    VeriChip soll Identifizierung erleichtern

    Um die Opfer des Hurrikans "Katrina" leichter identifizieren zu können, werden die Leichen nun mit Funkchips versehen, berichtet die "New York Times".

    Das Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team [DMORT] und die Gesundheitshörden in Harrison County pflanzen den sterblichen Überresten Funkchips [RFID-Chips] des US-Herstellers VeriChip ein, gab VeriChip demnach an.

  • USA: GAO official cites privacy risk in data-mining efforts

    Federal agencies are falling short in protecting privacy when performing data mining, according to congressional testimony from a senior Government Accountability Office official.

    Both data mining—in which large amounts of data from different sources are aggregated, searched and analyzed—and radio-frequency identification technologies are raising privacy concerns, Linda Koontz, director of information management issues for GAO, said in testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law yesterday.

  • USA: GAO study of RFID technology, policy seen flawed

    A recently released Government Accountability Office study of radio frequency identity device security is flawed because it omits discussion of technologies and federal policies in the arena, according to smart-card industry executives.

    GAO defended the report, saying it relied on information provided by other federal agencies and did not delve deep into individual RFID programs that the agencies are implementing.

  • USA: Government agencies expanding use of RFID

    The U.S. Department of Defense, as well as federal and state civilian agencies are increasingly deploying or planning to implement Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies throughout their organizations. In a recent Government Computer News survey of government IT professionals, a significant number of respondents were already using, expanding or about to adopt RFID to enhance personnel ID and access control, asset management and inventory control, and supply chain logistics, among other uses.

  • USA: GSA readying RFI to figure out costs of E-Authentication

    The General Services Administration will in the next month release a request for information on the cost implications of using existing credentials in the E-Authentication federation.

    Georgia Marsh, deputy program manager for the E-Authentication initiative, one of the 25 original e-government projects, said the RFI also is asking vendors to compare the cost of issuing new credentials against bringing in existing ones from providers such as financial institutions.

  • USA: Invasive ID

    If underage drinkers find it so easy to manufacture fake IDs, what's stopping terrorists from doing the same? And why is it so simple for illegal immigrants to acquire legitimate drivers' licenses?

    These questions troubled Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., who introduced legislation earlier this year designed to keep terrorists from using drivers' licenses as identification.

  • USA: Kalifornien verschiebt Entscheidung über RFID-Verbot

    Ein Gesetzesvorhaben in Kalifornien, das einem Verbot der RFID-Nutzung durch öffentliche Behörden gleichkäme, ist erst einmal auf die lange Bank geschoben worden. Im Identity Information Protection Act of 2005 (PDF-Datei, Gesetzesnummer SB 682) ist vorgesehen, kontaktlos auslesbare Datenspeicher in von staatlichen Stellen ausgegebenen ID-Karten zu verbieten. Nach den bisherigen Beratungen wurde der Gesetzesentwurf dahingehend abgeschwächt, dass Ausnahmen auf Grund "zwingenden Staatsinteresses" möglich seien, wenn es "kein weniger stark in die Privatsphäre eingreifendes Mittel gibt", um dieses Staatsinteresse zu erfüllen. Auf Grund des Widerstands aus der Hightech-Industrie gegen den Gesetzesvorschlag, der von Datenschützern und Bürgerrechtsorganisationen in den USA unterstützt wird, verschob das Parlamentskomitee, das über die weitere Vorgehensweise zu entscheiden hatte, die weitere Diskussion des Gesetzesvorhabens ins kommende Jahr.

  • USA: Kalifornien will RFIDs in ID-Karten verbieten

    Zum Schutz privater Daten soll der Einsatz von RFID-Chips in ID-Karten untersagt werden.

    Das immer grössere Problem des Identitätsdiebstahls wird durch den Einsatz von RFID-Chips noch verschärft. Tatsächlich kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass die auf dem Chip enthaltenen Informationen auch von Unbefugten und unbemerkt vom Besitzer ausgelesen werden.

  • USA: Katrina-Opfer bekommen RFID-Chips implantiert

    Die US-amerikanische Katastrophen-Einsatztruppe DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) implantiert Todesopfern des Wirbelsturms Katrina RFID-Chips, damit die Leichen später besser identifiziert werden können. Die Technik stammt von dem Unternehmen VeriChip, das im vergangenen Jahr von der Aufsichtsbehörde Food and Drug Administration die Zulassung für das VeriChip Health Information Microtransponder System bekommen hatte. Das System besteht aus einem unter der Haut eingepflanzten RFID-Chip, einem Hand-Scanner sowie einer Datenbank für medizinische Daten.

  • USA: Keep RFID Simple

    The state of Texas is thinking about replacing vehicle inspection stickers with RFID tags [QuickLink 53621]. The state likes the idea because it would enable drive-by enforcement of insurance requirements. Privacy partisans don't, because it could expose car owners' personal information to anyone who scans their vehicles with an RFID reader.

    Sounds like a tough problem of functionality vs. privacy, doesn't it? But why? There's no compelling reason any personal information should be stored on those RFID tags -- or on any RFID tags. So why is everyone's default assumption that it will be?

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