October 01, 2004
Item-Level RFID Tagging Poses Privacy Threat
Retailers such as Wal-Mart have claimed that item-level RFID tagging is still a decade away and may never happen, if costs are prohibitive. But, the privacy advocate's worst nightmare may come true sooner rather than later.
According to CNet News.com:
Pharmaceutical companies are gearing up to slap tags on individual packages of certain prescription drugs within the next three years, under a mandate from the Food and Drug Administration, according to executives in that industry speaking at this week’s conference.
Retailers don’t have such a mandate but are tip-toeing that direction anyway. A Wal-Mart store in Dallas is already selling Hewlett-Packard printers and scanners with RFID tags on their boxes, said Elizabeth Board, executive director of the public policy steering committee for EPCglobal, organizer of the EPCglobal U.S. Conference 2004 trade show.
Read more: Privacy questions arise as RFID hits stores
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