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Privacy white papers

• Proposed Substitute House Bill 1031
  Published February 2007

  The Electronic Bill of Rights, introduced by Washington Representative Jeff Morris (D), is intended to place restrictions on how RFID technology ca be deployed and used in that state.

• Privacy in Radio Frequency Identity Documents
  Published November 2006

  Written by Tres Wiley of Texas Instruments, this document describes privacy concerns regarding the use of contactless technologies in identity documents, the differences between RFID and contactless smart-card systems, and the methods available in each case to protect privacy.

• Customers' Benefits Inside the Retail Store with RFID Technology
  Published October 2006

  Authors Freddy Brofman and Luis Kluwe Aguiar provide a summary of the privacy issues raised against deploying the technology in the retail environment, suggesting that adopting the technology can create a win-win situation without gathering customers’ information.

• PCB: Physically Changeable Bit for Preserving Privacy in Low-End RFID Tags
  Published May 2006

  Author Cliff C. Zou of the University of Central Florida presents an alternative privacy protection approach for low-end RFID systems called “PCB” (Physicall Changeable Bit).

• Is the VeriChip Friend or Foe?
  Published May 2006

  Troy D. Barclay, a student at Nazarene Bible College, examines both the positive and negative uses to which the VeriChip might be used, from a privacy, technology and religious standpoint.

• The Original Spychips Rebuttal
  Published November 2005

  Written by Nicholas Chavez and Jeff Goldstein of RFID Ltd., this white paper serves as a critique of Spychips, a book by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre that attempts to build a case against the use of RFID technology.

• Scanning with a Purpose—Supporting the Fair Information Principles in RFID Protocols
  Published November 2004

  This white paper, written by Christian Floerkemeier, Roland Schneider and Marc Langheinrich of the Institute for Pervasive Computing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, proposes changes to RFID protocols to address consumer privacy concerns by appropriately supporting the fair information practices. The paper suggests new features and outline how they would allow consumer interest groups and privacy-concerned individuals to judge whether an RFID reader deployment complies with the corresponding regulations through the use of a watchdog tag.

• RFID Tags and Privacy
  Published June 2004

  Originally published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, this article by Jim Harper, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, explains the privacy concerns surrounding RFID and why market forces will resolve them.