RFid Blog

IBM has awarded Canadian company Marnlen RFiD, a division of Marnlen Management Ltd to manufacture secured RFID tags to protect consumer privacy. The newest tag is known as Clipped Tag, which has been designed at the IBM's Watson Research Center....

So far, we have come to learn that RFID is the most controversial technology of the world due the several factors. One such major factor is privacy factor. As someone has very funnily said, 'I could track everything of you because you have been embedded..

RFID technology in USA gets a major set back with researchers of the newly set up RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy (CUSP) have reportedly hacked RFID-empowered contactless credit cards. The Research group claims the information stored in the..

The fear that RFID technology mars individual privacy needs to be removed in the minds of Europeans. Then only, European can make this technology public acceptance and implement it in various fields for the betterment of all, the EU Commissioner Viviane..

California is on its way to protect the personal information collected by using RFID tags in the government documents and ID cards. The state legislature has passed a bill, the Identity Information Protection Act 2006 last month. The prime objective..

Scientists at Amsterdam's Free University say that cheap RFID chips that are replacing barcodes are a threat to privacy and susceptible to computer viruses. Researchers there created an RFID chip infected with a virus to prove that RFID systems are...

It seems the European Union has finally got serious about RFID and Security. It has launched public consultations on concerns over RF ID tags. Actually, the EU is concerned that RFID tags not only report their location, identity and history but...