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  • Heathrow Airport to get taxi-tracking RFID system

    London's Heathrow Airport is deploying radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in taxi fleets to monitor and manage demand on behalf of arriving passengers who need transport away from the airport.

  • Gillette shrugs off RFID-tracking fears

    Gillette has dismissed complaints by privacy groups that the company plans to use smart tags in its products to track and photograph shoppers.

  • Aus privacy groups demand opt-in for new ID tags

    Australian privacy advocates have cautiously welcomed news that radio frequency identification tags will be fitted with a "kill switch" to prevent them transmitting information if the owner desires it.

  • Defense Department reveals its RFID rollout plans

    The US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the details of its plans for obligatory use of RFID among its suppliers.

  • RFID passports take off

    Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the US to issue passports with radio tags are now doing so, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.

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  • RFID to track army supplies in Iraq

    Australian army troops in Iraq will use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to monitor the movement of equipment from early next year.

  • RFID tags: The people say no

    CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.

  • Dust and mirrors bring smart world closer

    New research shows how to make self-contained communicating computers the size of grains of salt.

  • Reducing equipment drift helps cut tech costs

    Disappearing equipment can eat away your IT budget, but so can the cost of some tracking and inventory solutions. Get the scoop on the challenges of equipment drift and the availability of solutions to stop it.

  • A day at the office in 2013

    Will corporate leaders broadly adopt the draconian measures in this cautionary tale? Not likely. But once RFID sensors are smart, cheap and pervasive, the potential for abuse will be significant.

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