Consumers who buyRFID
-enabled goods should have an automatic veto against their personal
details being collected and associated with the device, says
the
European Data Protection
Supervisor.
Responding to the European Commission's communication on Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) in Europe, Peter Hustinx said
self-regulation might be enough to start with, but that new privacy
legislation may be needed.
He called for the commission to give clear guidance on how to
apply the current legal framework to the RFID environment. He said
there should be European Community legislation to regulate RFID
usage in case the existing legal framework failed.
Such measures should lay down the opt-in principle at the point
of sale as a precise and undeniable legal obligation, he said. He
called for the identification of best available techniques to
enable manufacturers to build in privacy in their system
designs.