Privacy activists demand Tesco boycott over RFID

Consumer privacy advocates have launched a worldwide plan to boycott Tesco stores due to concerns over the retailer’s increasing use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) launched the campaign on Tuesday, during an item about RFID on the BBC’s Newsnight television programme.
Caspian’s director and founder Katherine Albrecht […]



Homeland Security To Test RFID Tags At U.S. Borders

The federal government will test radio-frequency identification technology at ports of entry to improve its border-management system.
As part of the project, visitors entering the country will be issued RFID tags that will track their comings and goings at border crossings, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Initially, the government will test RFID tags […]

Department of Homeland Security to start using RFID with foreign travelers

“We are driven by a vision of the way our borders can and should operate in the future, and that future is getting closer and closer with every layer of US-VISIT we deploy,” said Under Secretary Hutchinson. “Through the use of radio frequency technology, we see the potential to not only improve the security of […]

Department of Homeland Security to start using RFID with foreign travelers

“We are driven by a vision of the way our borders can and should operate in the future, and that future is getting closer and closer with every layer of US-VISIT we deploy,” said Under Secretary Hutchinson. “Through the use of radio frequency technology, we see the potential to not only improve the security of […]

Department of Homeland Security to start using RFID with foreign travelers

“We are driven by a vision of the way our borders can and should operate in the future, and that future is getting closer and closer with every layer of US-VISIT we deploy,” said Under Secretary Hutchinson. “Through the use of radio frequency technology, we see the potential to not only improve the security of […]

HP to Unveil RFID ‘Noisy Lab,’ Microsoft Deal

With more than eight months of Wal-Mart RFID experience at the pallet, case and individual packaging levels, Hewlett-Packard Co. is getting set to launch an RFID “Noisy Lab” that will enact real world RFID deployment conditions for customers.
HP plans to introduce the upcoming lab in Omaha, Neb., Monday at the National Retail Federation Convention […]

EPassport Awards More RFID Contracts

With government officials facing a March deadline for implementing a prototype electronic passport, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) this week awarded four more contracts for sample RFID computer chips to be used in the project.
Although the State Department is charged with the electronic passport initiative, the GPO will actually design and print the […]

Competitive Technologies Selected to Globally Commercialize RFID Tracking Technology

FAIRFIELD, Conn., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Competitive
Technologies, Inc. (Amex: CTT) announced today that it has signed an agreement
with USM Systems, Ltd. (USMS) to exclusively license and commercialize
worldwide USMS’s patented “event-driven” information technology. Designed to
capture “event driven” data through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as
well as other methods, USMS’s technology allows the movement of individuals or
assets to […]

Tesco stocks up on RFID tags

The European supermarket giant has signed a deal with Parsippany, N.J.-based ADT Security Systems, which will supply the 4,000 readers and 16,000 antennae by the fall of this year.
The equipment will be used in 1,300 Tesco supermarkets and 35 distribution centers in the United Kingdom.
Tesco is planning a wider introduction of the technology […]

Smaller Firms are Dominating RFID

A new study shows smaller firms have dominated some segments of Wal-Mart’s RFID roll out. Incucomm released the results in its new study, “Wal-Mart’s RFID Deployment – How is it Going?”
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 10, 2005 — The study reports some Wal-Mart suppliers are routinely achieving 100% read rates. It provides an assessment of the […]