After Wisconsin, the state of North Dakota in USA has introduced legislation to ban forced RFID chip implants on humans. Not surprisingly, it is for the privacy reasons.
John Hooven, Governor of North Dakota has approved the bill that imposes...
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The proposed RFID bill that supposedly keeps the interests of the consumers has been deferred and returned to the House Rules Committee of House of Representatives because it was not tabled on the House Legislative floor calendar by March 14....
The Port of Oakland, the first major port on the Pacific Coast and the fourth busiest container port in the USA has announced that it is embracing RFID technology to make its trucking operations more efficient under a strong security atmosphere.
For...
RFID as a technology is slowly but gradually dominating the healthcare unit. We have a notion that RFID is useful in healthcare units when it comes asset tracking. However, it is now being used to treat the patients.
From this news source, I came to...
The Department of Home Security (DHS) has finally decided to postpone the controversial RFID program, which underwent in trial to track foreign visitors crossing the US borders.
DHS dropped the RFID program abruptly after realizing the technology is...
Intermec has bagged yet another major RFID deal this month. After reaching out an agreement with NASA to provide its RFID products for the test of this technology in outer space, Intermec is now selected by software giant Microsoft to supply its RFID...
EPCglobal has introduced a new global standard, GS1 EPCglobal Electronic Pedigree Document that pitches for RFID technology creating electronic pedigrees to securely track the authenticity and chain-of-custody of pharmaceuticals and other items.
The...
We don’t need to define NFC (Near Field Communications). Both RFID and NFC technology provide same services and function more or less similarly. The only distinguishing point of them is the reading range. In case of NFC, the range of reading is very...
The US government faces obstacle in its step towards the introduction of RFID enabled e-pedigrees for pharmaceutical sectors with federal court relaxing compliant of pedigree requirements for drug shipments.
A small group of pharmaceutical...
It seems that the state government of USA is now more serious on its RFID passports than before. In the backdrop of mounting pressure for the RFID passports, the government has decided to increase the deadline for public comments on the RFID-enabled...
Until now, we know Las Vegas-based Harmon Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital as one the best healthcare units of America for its highly skilled professional staffs. The healthcare unit is now embarking RFID technology for the betterment of patients....
Adoption of RFID technology is increasing at its fast. However, in terms of adoption, other countries are far behind USA and UK, even China.
In its recent study Hot Countries for RFID, the research firm IDTechEx says UK holds number two position in...
Even though, the debate regarding security of RFID technology is more vibrant in USA, the countries, which have good diplomatic relations with USA have agreed to issue the RFID-enabled e-passports to their citizens, confirms the Department of Homeland...
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 US National Guard has awarded a $4.6 million deal to Savi Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Co. to get its mobile RFID systems to enhance its real-time tracking of supplies at National Guard armories and for deployed...
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