Policy, data privacy  

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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