RFID Privacy "Best Practices" Released

A working group made up of some of the nation's largest companies, public interest,and consumer advocates has unveiled a set of "best practices" designed to promote respect for consumer privacy in the use RFID.

The document offers guidance for companies that use RFID technology to collect data that can be linked to consumers' personally identifiable information. Drawn largely from widely accepted principles of "fair information practices," the best practices outline how consumers should be notified about RFID data collection, what choice they should have with regard to their own personal information, and how that information should be treated by the companies that collect it.

Organizations contributing to the development of the document include the Center for Democracy and Technology, the American Library Association, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, the National Consumers League, VeriSign, and Visa USA, among others.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 11:04 AM  Permalink