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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11141
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) business

Radio frequency identification guarantees privacy

Brussels, 27/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - According to the European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (ANEC), the new European standards governing the chips used in radio frequency identification (RFID), just as for credit cards, are satisfactory. These standards were adopted last July and will be applied from next year.

The technology is “contactless” and data stored can be read remotely from within the local geographical environment of the...