Computerworld reports on a press briefing at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, where Viviane Reding, European commissioner for information society and media, declared that:
"RFID is very important to businesses and it is very important to citizens, but it also raises concerns about trust. (...) Citizens have to be sure they are in control of their data, and to have this control we must have worldwide legal certainty."
The bottom-line is the EC will consider revising the existing directive on e-privacy if new threats to EU citizens' privacy are identified.
