EU government has taken a strict stand on RFID and it is making all efforts to ensure that privacy and security is given utmost importance before its widespread adoption in EU and for this purpose it would be coming out with a set of guidelines in the later part of the year. EU has learned from the last year’s episode where the public comments on RFID which it called for displayed a lack of awareness and concern among the citizens regarding RFID.
An EU executive stated on this issue:
It would work to stress the absolute need for citizens to decide how their personal data is used in an effort to help the technology gain ground in Europe.
In the case of Europe the adoption of RFID has been quite slow and one of the reasons behind this could be that EU is giving a lot of consideration to the ethical implications of this technology. Probably EU wants to play safe in case of RFID which is termed as a sensitive technology.
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