By Jo Best, 27 September 2004 12:15
NEWS The concerns of shoppers, civil liberties groups and privacy advocates over the implications of RFID seem to have finally registered with some tech vendors.
While most RFID watchers say that it will be cost not privacy worries that will slow down adoption of the technology, SAP is hoping to soothe the doubters with a series of talking shops.
SAP will be attempting to bring vendors, political groups, industry figures and civil libertarians together at CeBIT 2005 and other trade shows to try and get the two sides to find common ground.
It also intends to start an online forum aimed at those with a business interest in the tracking chips, but open to those who want to spread the technology as well as those who would rather see it stopped altogether.
The forum should be up and running in October of this year, according to the company.
SAP executive board member Claus Heinrich said that for RFID to take off, the public at large must be convinced it has benefit.
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1. Marty Quantz
Digital Angel (DOC-AMEX) leader in RFID animal applications and Applied Digital (ADSX-NASDAQ) the leader in the human implantable RFID market are the big winners in this space. They are both due to receive huge royalties from their patents in the RFID field.
2. Thomas OZENNE
Rfid is Good :-)
ROFL , I am laying on my bed next to my D&D books , and I was just thinking about the high level skills one of my character has a High Master in Weapons , the power my character has is Signing Items, think back when I woke up of the bed I thought of RFIDs, basically chip been use to distribute informations , but I think we should use also RFIDs to tag the name of the maker but not only , the current owner of the object - ok you're with stupid probly many of you thought about Location based and so on, mobile phone item locator helps you track your items :-/ hmm I may think too much this is becoming thrilling :)