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Data privacy fears over RFID tags and labels gain ground.(Narrow Web Europe)

By Hunt, Barry
Publication: Label & Narrow Web
Date: Saturday, November 1 2003

Plenty has been written about RFID technology and its potential to influence supply chain management systems. Based on tiny microchips, the technology has shrunk in size and is now found in everything from swipe cards to tags to trace just about anything, including humans and animals if necessary. For the labeling industry its potential is seen to represent a huge source of new business, but we have heard little about data privacy issues. That is, until now.

In early October an IT article in the Guardian newspaper (www.guardian.co.uk/online) described a network intended

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