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EU: Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on RFID chips

01 December 2007

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Press release (pdf) and Full-text of Opinion (pdf)

The EDPS says that with the commonplace use of RFID chips: "the risk increases that the Information Society moves closer to a situation where automated decisions will be taken and where technology will be abused in order to regulate the human behaviour." He goes on to observe that "Self-regulation alone may not be enough to meet the challenge" and that legislation might be needed if self-regulation fails and that such "measures should notably lay down the opt-in principle at the point of sale as a precise and undeniable legal obligation"

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments:

"To wait to see if self regulation fails before laying down the opt-in principle at the point of sale as a precise and undeniable legal obligation should not be an option. The great majority of commercial companies will not voluntary do this as it is not in their interests and will cost them money"

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