The European Commission has recently released a study by its
Joint Research Centre (JRC) titled "Security and privacy for the citizen in
the Post-September 11 digital age: A prospective overview." The report was
commissioned at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on
Citizens Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs.
The report is available at
http://www.jrc.es/home/publications/publication.cfm?pub=1118
and the Commission press release is at
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/0
3/1344|0|RAPID&lg=EN
RFID is a key element of this report. To quote:
"Regarding the role of regulation, a more proactive integration of new
technologies under the umbrella of the existing regulatory framework might
be enough in most cases to fulfil privacy requirements. For example, if RFID
tags are identified and classified as an independent identification system,
they would then be regulated by the identity-related framework."
The FTP server ftp.jrc.es seems to be down - it's not accepting connections. Does anyone have an alternative source (or a copy) of the full report?
Thanks
-A
Posted by: apapadop at October 13, 2003 05:53 PM