[Surveillance-Studies-l] STOA-Report zu RFID

[Eric Toepfer]

Hallo Liste, 

das Technikfolgenabschätzungsbüro des Europäischen Parlaments hat kürzlich
einen Bericht zu RFIDs veröffentlicht, der von Interesse sein könnte.

Grüße
Eric

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EU: RFID and Identity Management in Everyday Life: 
Striking the balance between convenience, choice and control:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/aug/ep-stoa-report-on-rfid.pdf

STOA report for the European Parliament. Amongst 
its conclusions is that in the near future:

"Once RFID systems work exclusively with RFID it will become easier to
aggregate and
analyze the data on the level of the whole user population. Further, once
different RFID
systems might become connected to each other, or other technologies such as
GSM, GPS,
CCTV and the Internet, a much richer image of its users will appear. This
opens up many
opportunities for maintainers of the RFID settings to gain control over
their users and
governments to use RFID data for police investigation. Meanwhile, for the
users it will become
much less clear who is actually managing their identity in which setting,
upsetting the power
balance in the digital public space."