Fear RFID

Understand the Impacts of RFID on Your Privacy

• SpyChips Web Site
  Spychips "make[s] a stunningly powerful argument against plans for RFID being mapped out by government agencies, retail and manufacturing companies." -Evan Schuman, CIO Insight

• RFID Shield
  The RFID Shield is a protective sleeve that prevents anyone from reading private information stored on your RFID cards and passports.
• The Envelope
  The Emvelope® Wallet Insert is an innovative, patent-pending product that provides a simple, convenient, and easy way to contain the wireless signals being emitted by RFID chips.
• DIFRWear
  Our RFID Blocking Wallets ensure that cards with RFID tags within the wallet can NOT be read while the wallet is closed. This gives you the ability to control when, how and by whom your cards are accessed. To allow the RFID tag in the card to be read

• The Government, National ID
  Currently, RFID is most likely the technology that will be used to support the requirements of "The REAL ID Act" passed in May of 2005. Within 3 years all forms of national identification will requre the ID to use a common machine readable technology
• EPC Global
  MIT/University of Cambridge
• Verichip
  They will sell you RFID implants for your own protection and security. Patient Identification, Infant Protection, Wander Prevention, Asset Tracking (etc).
• Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility
  AIM is a global trade association comprising providers of components, networks, systems, and services that manage the collection and integration of data with information management systems. Serving more than 900 members in 43 countries, AIM is dedica
• CheckPoint Systems
  Promoting the use of RFID tags in situations, like item level tagging, which is not recommended by privacy experts.
• Reva Systems
  September 2006, REVA systems named one of the top ten companies to watch.
• Compex Inc.
  Take a look at the SCARY implications of RFID techology. Follow their Solutions link and select RFID technology.

RFID Publications and Web Sites

• RFID Journal
  Claims to be "THE WORLD'S RFID AUTHORITY". The site has a lot of information on RFID Technology.
• More RFID
  MoreRFID, one of the leading RFID information portals, announced to introduce a free digital magazine, Digital RFID Magazine. It is a next generation digital magazine using latest rich media technology. The magazine is published bi-monthly and reader
• RFID Gazette
  Radio Frequency Identification news and commentary.
• NIST RFID Secuirty
  If you are going to use the technology, be sure to review the National Institute of Standards and Technology's "Guidelines for Securing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems" document.

• Insight
  The Ultimate Privacy Argument Against RFID By Evan Schuman, Ziff Davis Internet October 21, 2005
• RFID SwitchBoard
  Privacy, Ethics and Regulation By Rakesh Kumar Courtesy Wipro Technologies.
• Center for Computing and Social Resonsibility
  Tag Ethics Originally published as ETHIcol in the IMIS Journal Volume 14 No 5 (October 2004)

• Insurance Industry
  Will you need to have an RFID implant to get insurance in the future?
• Want to Keep Your Job, Get Your Implant
  The company now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data center.
• RFID Tracking Newborns
  RFID is being used to keep track of newborns, another good reason to choose a home-birth. So far the technology is used on the bracelets for now.
• RFID Tattoos
  Now testing process on cattle. Possible uses? Tag military members.

• RFID Credit Card Flaws
  Vulnerabilities in RFID-enabled credit cards
• e-passports Flawed
  Critics state the new e-passports are flawed.
• RFID Kills .com
  More commentary on the dangers of encoding personal information using RFID technology.
• Problems with RFID
  An overview of technical, privacy and ethical problems with the technology.

RFID FAQs

• Wikipedia RFID
  If all else fails, check wikipedia.com
• Spy.org RFID FAQ
  Answers to frequent questions.

RFID Hacking - Don't Feel so Secure

• Hacking RFID
  Just because they told you your information is safe, don't believe them.
• RFID Hacking Tools
  RFDump is a backend GPL tool to directly interoperate with any RFID ISO-Reader to make the contents stored on RFID tags accessible.
• RFID Guardian
  Technology to spoof or block RFID transmissions.

Concerned? Take Action - We all have a voice.

• CASPIAN
  CASPIAN has proposed legislation, The RFID Right to Know Act, that would require mandatory labeling to inform consumers when a product contains an RFID tag. It would also prohibit companies from linking the chips with personally identifying informati
• ACLU's View of the REAL ID Act
  Inform yourself about the implications of the REAL ID Act.