The tags also have no power to emit a signal and only release their unique identification number in the presence of a Marks & Spencer scanner. Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of the controversial radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking tags in clothes...
Along with scanners, VeriChip also sells complementary security systems for opening or shutting doors after the identification process. VeriChip, the company that makes RFID tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into...
Nokia has begun selling a product that turns one of its mobile phone models into a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag reader. The Nokia Mobile RFID Kit is aimed at enterprises in the security, services, utilities and health care sectors...
California's Senate this month approved a ban on the use of RFID tags in driver's licences and other state-issued forms of identification. Radio frequency identification is becoming increasingly popular inside the US government but agencies have...
Privacy and data protection concerns arise when RFID tags relate to people, according to the consultation background document - not only when people use RFID tags for identification and access to services but also when products with RFID tags are...
Connecting for Health (CfH) said the NHS was also looking at using RFID tags to track shipments in NHS logistics and to improve other services. The misidentification of people, supplies, medicine and medical devices is a very real issue for the...