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EU: RFID and Identity Management in Everyday Life: Striking the balance between convenience, choice and control

01 August 2007

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STOA report for the European Parliament (pdf)

Amongst its conclusions is that in the near future:

"Once RFID systems work exclusively with RFID it will become easier to aggregate and analyze the data on the level of the whole user population. Further, once different RFID systems might become connected to each other, or other technologies such as GSM, GPS, CCTV and the Internet, a much richer image of its users will appear. This opens up many opportunities for maintainers of the RFID settings to gain control over their users and governments to use RFID data for police investigation. Meanwhile, for the users it will become much less clear who is actually managing their identity in which setting, upsetting the power balance in the digital public space."

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