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Guidelines for RFID released

April 30, 2006

New York Times: Some of the opponents in the debate over the potential privacy abuses of identification and tracking systems using tiny radio tags have come together to draft best-practices guidelines that are to be released May 1 at a technology trade show in Las Vegas. The guidelines are the work of a group of businesses and consumer advocates. Among the participants who are expected to endorse the guidelines are Procter & Gamble, I.B.M., Microsoft, Visa USA and the National Consumers League.

However, some participants in the drafting are not endorsing the result, including the National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retailing trade group, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that was the most vocal privacy advocate.

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