[WSIS CS-Plenary] RFID at WSIS - Washington Times

[Meryem Marzouki]

FYI. Meryem
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Summit group confirms use of ID chip
By Audrey Hudson and Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 18, 2003


     Organizers of the World Summit on the Information Society yesterday 
confirmed that badges worn by high-level attendees were affixed with 
identification chips some say were unknown to the forum's participants.
     However, a spokesman for the International Telecommunication Union 
(ITU), which was the host of the three-day event in Geneva last week, 
scoffed at concerns by privacy advocates that the technology could 
monitor an individual's movement or that the data it collects could be 
misused.
     Three European researchers who discovered the chips in their 
badges, first reported by The Washington Times on Sunday, said 
participants were not told about the chips. [...]
(whole article at: 
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031217-115051-5373r.htm)