Unfortunately, businesses and governments are not the only ones interested in RFID. Civil liberties groups, hackers and criminals are also keenly interested in this new development, albeit for very different reasons. Civil liberties groups are concerned about RFID technology being used to invade people's privacy; RFID tags enable unethical individuals to snoop on people and surreptitiously collect data on them without their approval or even knowledge. For example, RFID-enabled public transit tickets could allow public transit managers to compile a dossier listing all of a person's travels in the past year -- information which may be of interest to the police, divorce lawyers, and others.
Following possible threats from use of RFID are listed as below:
1- Infringement of the right to privacy and data protection”
Identification and profiling of a person
Unnoticed remote reading without line-of-sight
Use of RFID for law enforcement purposes
2- Infringement of the right to personality
3- Infringement of the right to human dignity
4- Unfair competition
5- Labor law violations
In next posts I’ll try to describe these threats in a detail.
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