Spam & spyware
Filter by...
-
Cloning e-passports
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Jeroen van Beek, a computer researcher at the University of Amsterdam, has shown in some tests conducted for The Times that the new micro-chipped passports, introduced in UK to protect against terrorism and organised crime, can be easily cloned. The researcher has succeeded in cloning the chips […]
Read more
-
Dutch University sued to stop publishing research on chip technology
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued the Dutch Computer Security Group of Radboud University in Nijmege in order to stop the publication of research results showing security flaws in NXP’s Mifare Classic wireless smart cards used in transit and building entry systems around the world. The technology […]
Read more
-
EC Draft Recommendation on RFID Privacy and Security published
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Commission published the Draft Recommendation on RFID Privacy and Security on the Your Voice in Europe-Platform for public consultation. After a public consultation on RFID Privacy Issues in 2006, some conferences and workshops and various discussions on the topic within the RFID Expert Group, this […]
Read more
-
Internet-related privacy issues on the EU institutions' agenda
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The privacy problems created by the Internet and other new technologies such as RFID have an important place on the agenda of the European institutions that seem to be more anxious than ever to tackle those issues. The hearing at the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee reported […]
Read more
-
Key privacy concerns in Netherlands 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The nominees and winners of the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2007 showed it clearly: a proper level of data protection in The Netherlands cannot be taken for granted. A number of big projects and ongoing legislative efforts threaten the state of data protection in the Netherlands. The […]
Read more
-
European Data Protection Supervisor's opinion on RFID
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In the context of increasing debates in the European Union over the RFID policy, Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supevisor (EDPS), published on 20 December 2007 his opinion on the growing use of RFID chips in consumer products and other new applications affecting individuals. EDPS published […]
Read more
-
RFID and Informed Consent – Using and removing of RFID functionality
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the the EDRi statements on RFID Privacy Issues and RFID Security Issues published earlier this year, EDRi recently contributed with a third written statement to the European Commission’s RFID Expert Group focusing on RFID and Informed Consent. In this paper, EDRi deals with the possibilities of […]
Read more
-
Lisbon Conference "On RFID – The next step to the Internet of Things"
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Last week the conference “On RFID”, organised by the Portuguese Presidency with support of the European Commission DG Information Society, took place in Lisbon. During the one and a half days of the conference a number of topics were discussed, that could be crucial for the future […]
Read more
-
Fingerprints in passports: the German population in a risky experiment
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 1 November 2007, registration offices throughout Germany will begin collecting fingerprints from all citizens wishing to travel. Two years after the storage of a facial image on an RFID chip has been introduced, the project of full biometric registration of the whole population continues. Germany’s Chaos […]
Read more
-
EDRI's contributions to the RFID Expert Group
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The RFID Expert Group created by the European Commission in order to assist in drafting the future RFID strategy had several meetings until now. European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) submitted two papers to this group on RFID Privacy and Security in order to stress that the reliable […]
Read more
-
Prague will anonymise RFID city cards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Prague Deputy Mayor announced that following the presure of EDRI-member Iuridicum Remedium and the interpellation of the member of city parliament Petra Kolinska (Green Party) the city authorities decided that RFID chips in newly issued city cards will no longer contain personal data. This move is a […]
Read more
-
RFID Expert Group – Kick Off
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following the public consultations on RFID last year, the European Commission announced the creation of an RFID Expert Group to assist in drafting the future RFID strategy. The group’s kick-off meeting was held in Brussles last week. EDRi was invited to participate in the group. The Group […]
Read more