{"id":60,"date":"2005-09-07T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=60"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"rfid-at-tech-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"RFID at Tech Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robin Wilton<\/a> from Sun wrote to comment on “Just a few scanning machines<\/a>“. He says:<\/p>\n

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I was invited to attend Microsoft Tech Ed 2005 in Amsterdam this year. One of the first things the warm-up presenter told us was that we'd all been RFID-tagged. <\/p>\n

However, <\/p>\n

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  1. as I say, we were all told in the opening session;\n
  2. it was made clear to us that the RFID tag numbers were not cross-referenced to our names. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, for instance, when a couple of raffle winners were announced at the end of that session, only their RFID tag numbers were displayed on screen – it was up to us to check our own badges. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Robin then refer's to another comment on the post<\/a> by Felipe Connill:<\/p>\n

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    Pretty crazy that [the organizers of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference – Kim<\/em>] did this [tracked conference participants using bluetooth – Kim<\/em>] without notifying everyone. But it really drives the point that people [and] equipment manufacturers need to start applying the laws of identity or if not our privacy is going to be invaded at every point. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Robin concludes:<\/p>\n

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    Felipe's comment is spot on: had we not been told, none of us would have known we'd been tagged. This is absolutely a policy and implementation issue, not a technology one. Policy and implementation have to be based on a clear understanding of the subject's relevant rights to privacy and informed consent. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Robin is such a gentleman. But this kind of demonstration makes me scratch my head. What exactly were we trying to achieve? I suppose the idea must have been to show how powerful<\/strong><\/em> this new technology is. The demo sure accomplishes that! Maybe the idea was to give everyone the creeps<\/strong><\/em> so they would think about how not to use <\/strong>RFID tags. That's a novel approach for a product launch. Novelty is important. Anyway, I'll find out one day, and I'll let you know. <\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, it goes to show how much work we have left to do in getting a wider set of people to think about the relationship between identity and technology, especially tracking technologies. We haven't gotten the message out clearly enough.<\/p>\n

    To be continued…<\/p>\n

    [tags: RFID<\/a>, identity<\/a>, Tracking<\/a>, Robin Wilton<\/a>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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