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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Keine Zustimmung zur RFID-Folgenabschätzung der Industrie

On 13 July 2010, the Article 29 Working Party adopted an opinion on the Industry Proposal for a Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessment Framework for RFID Applications (Industry RFID PIA framework) in which it concludes it would not endorse the proposed document in its current form.

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Deutsch: Europa-Parlament für klaren gesetzlichen Rahmen für das Internet der...

In a resolution on the Internet of Things, adopted on 15 June 2010, the European Parliament (EP) welcomes the communication of the Commission on the topic and in principle endorses the broad outlines of the action plan to promote the Internet of Things.

The Parliament however takes the view that the development of new applications and the actual functioning and business potential of the Internet of Things will be intrinsically linked to the trust European consumers have in the system, and points out that trust exists when doubts about potential threats to privacy and health are clarified.

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Deutsch: Industrie schlägt einen Rahmen zur Bewertung der Auswirkungen von RFI...

Following the RFID recommendation issued by the European Commission on 12.05.2009, an informal working group on the implementation on the recommendation was set up, especially focusing on the task of creating a RFID Privacy Impact Assessment Framework. Members of the group were mainly industry representatives, some representatives of European standardisation organisations and a very limited number of civil society representatives - EDRi amongst them.

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Deutsch: EP, EDPS und EDRi über RFID und das Internet der Dinge

The European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) discussed at its meeting on 17 March 2010 the draft report by rapporteur Maria Badia i Cutchet on the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Deutsch: Gutachten zu Chipimplantaten in Deutschland

According to a survey carried out by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM, 23% out of 1000 German respondents would accept to have a microchip implanted in their body if that would bring concrete benefits from it.

The survey was meant to show the increase of the division between real life and the virtual world, as one of the themes of the CeBIT technology fair having taken place in Hanover between 2 and 6 March 2010.

However, the study findings are debatable as the respondent sample was not only small but also taken from a special pool (CeBIT visitors who are probably IT inclined anyway).

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Deutsch: „Recht auf das Schweigen der Chips“ in der neuen Mitteilung der EC

A new communication from the European Commission to the other European bodies on the RFID (radio-frequency identification) titled "Internet of Things - An action plan for Europe" was made public on 18 June 2009.

The communication builds on the work of the Recommendation on the use of RFID published on 12 May 2009 after a fifteen-month period of consultations.

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Deutsch: EU unterstützt RFID mit ausreichendem Schutz für die Privatsphäre d...

The European Commission issued on 12 May 2009 a recommendation on the use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) after a fifteen-month period of consultations with supplying and using industries, standardisation bodies, consumers' organisations, civil society groups and trade unions.

Having in view the high continuous development of the smart chips industry, the Commission drafted the recommendation to help in ensuring the protection of the citizens' fundamental rights to privacy and data protection as stipulated in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union proclaimed on 14

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Online consultation comments on the staff paper "Early Challenges to the Internet of Things". EDRi contributed to the discussion via the RFID Expert Group. The preparation of the final communication by the COM is still ongoing.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/library/index_en.h...