Source: PC World
European Commission has formed a RFID stakeholder group, says industry must pay attention to security and privacy issues. The European Commission has formed a group to provide it with advice about RFID (radio frequency identification), which it aims to avoid regulating, according to the commissioner in charge of that area.

When was the last time big corporations and their interests have taken heed of advice provided by any stakeholder groups in an advisory role without the ability to implement consequences towards those corporations? Seems like just another ordinary day where money is spent on groups of advisories that get together with corporations and in the end accomplish very little.

The Princess Benelux has also noticed this and eloquently worded it as; “Today I got thrown into writing a story about the EU’s new RFID policy, which, like most EU policies, consists of setting up a talking shop and thinking about things for 2 years before they get back to us. However even the EU’s Imperial High Priestess of Telecoms, Viviane Reding admits that when it comes to RFID technology there is ‘a strong lack of awareness and considerable concern among citizens‘ which they are going to try and rectify.”