[CLUE-Talk] AITP dinner - RFID

[Charles Oriez]

This Thursday, Nov 18, the Mile High chapter of the Association of 
Information Technology Professionals will be hosting it's monthly dinner at 
Executive Tower Inn.  Happy hour at 5:30 followed by dinner, and the speaker:

Keynote: RFID – the next technology revolution? by Mark Richtermeyer, 
SpitFire Group

details at http://denveraitp.org  Reservations, before COB Wednesday, are 
highly encouraged.

Recently, Walmart issued an edict that its major vendors will make use of 
RFIDs in its products. Meanwhile, the major pharm companies and the FDA are 
looking at ways to use RFIDs to track product at the wholesale level to 
help guard against substitutions of counterfeit drugs (A pharmacy in 
California recently found that it had been sold fake neupogen with the 
potential for fatal results to cancer patients).  EPIC and others have 
raised privacy concerns.

I will be registering as AITP's volunteer lobbyist for the upcoming 
Colorado legislative session and we would be interested in hearing your 
thoughts on the topic.  What if anything ought the Colorado legislature 
involve itself in within this area? What are other states doing?

Homework:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/RFID/
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=15559&c=207
http://www.cdt.org/testimony/20040714bruening.pdf
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDposition.htm  (includes CPSR position, 
among others)