That almost happened with "cookies" a few years ago. Know-nothing members of the European Parliament wanted to outlaw cookies, which are records created by your Web browser that permit sites to look the same during your next visit. The Interactive Advertising Bureau UK had to launch a "Save Our Cookies" campaign, and in the United States, class-action lawyers began filing lawsuits of dubious merit against targets such as Excite@Home. The cookie bans failed when saner heads prevailed--but not until after software companies spent considerable effort providing evidence to politicians that cookies weren't Big Brother in tiny packages. Now the RFID industry is being forced to beg legislators to back off.

"We feel presidio sport case for apple iphone 7 plus and 8 plus - black/slate that any efforts to prematurely legislate or regulate the technology before it has a chance to be implemented really will prevent industries from unlocking the benefits of the technology," said Jeff Oddo, a spokesman for the Uniform Code Council, which oversees bar codes and an RFID association called EPCglobal, "A lot of the work that we're doing is to address any concern that (would) prevent this technology from being deployed responsibly, Privacy is as important as anything else we're doing."..

One way to eliminate most privacy concerns is to disable RFID tags after they leave the store. Standards organizations such as EPCglobal have specified a "kill command," and 13 companies, including Philips Semiconductors and Texas Instruments, elaborated on it in their own proposal, which would include a 32-bit kill switch. (Except in some pilot projects, RFID tags aren't being placed on individual products, just on pallets used inside stores.). EPCglobal has published a set of substantial public-policy guidelines that say consumers should be informed of RFID tags and given the option to disable them. The guidelines take effect on Jan. 1, 2005.

In other words, the RFID industry already is responding to consumers in a responsible manner, knowing that retailers will lose business if Americans aren't reassured, Just don't expect the modern-day Phil Donahues to admit it, Industry deserves a chance to act responsibly, CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says, before ill-informed legislators step in, In 1974, the TV talk show host presidio sport case for apple iphone 7 plus and 8 plus - black/slate denounced the Universal Product Code, better known as the bar code, as a dastardly plot that would let grocery stores trick consumers, Grocers would replace price tags with bar codes and confuse shoppers, Donahue informed his viewers repeatedly..

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