European Commission launches public consultation on RFID data-protection
issues
19 January 2005
The following notice was issued by the European Commission:
"On January 19th, the Working Party 29 of the Data Protection group of
the European Commission adopted a Working Document on data protection issues
related to RFID technology (Working
document 105).
After outlining the potential use of RFID technology in various sectors,
the Working Document recalls the need to comply with the basic principles
set out in the EC data protection Directives (Directive 95/46/EC and
Directive 2002/58EC) whenever personal data is collected using RFID
technology. The paper also provides guidance to manufacturers of the
technology (RFID tags, readers and applications) as well as RFID
standardization bodies on their responsibility towards designing privacy
compliant technology in order to enable deployers of the technology to carry
out their obligations under the data protection Directive.
The Working Party wishes to give interested parties the opportunity to
submit their comments to the
Working Document 105 and to this end it has launched this public
consultation until March 31st, 2005. The comments received by then will
be posted on the website unless a specific request not to do so is mentioned
by the respondent.
The comments should be sent by e-mail to the following address:
markt-privacy-consultations@cec.eu.int."
Source: European Commission, Data Protection Group, Working Party 29:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/
workingroup/consultations/consultation_en.htm
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