issues and advocacy

This page considers issues and advocacy regarding RFID technologies and applications.

It covers -

• introduction
• privacy
• crime and safety
• numbering schemes, standards and information sharing
• productivity and other issues
• frameworks and regulators
• advocacy

     advocacy

Local industry bodies include -

• Automatic Data Capture Australia (ADCA) - seeking recognition as the peak industry body representing "Data Capture Technology" (inc RFID) in Australia
• RFID Action Australia (RAA) - a new industry association to "represent any interested parties in RFID"

At a global level key industry bodies include

• EPCglobal - responsible for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) standard marketed to wholesale and retail segments of the supply chain
• Association for Automatic Identification & Mobility (AIM)
• EAN International and the Uniform Code Council (EAN-UCC), the identification standards consortium that has grown from the EU European Article Numbering (EAN) and US Uniform Product Code organisations

Public interest groups and sites with a particular profile regarding RFID practice include

• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) - the US-based privacy specialist
• the less nuanced Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF)
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC)
• Stop RFID - "spychips pose a threat to your privacy" - a US offshoot of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion & Numbering)

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