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The Canadian Government has put out a "Request For Information" ( RFI ) - essentially, a formal invitation for feedback on the top...

Now here's something you might not expect from UNESCO every day: The Infoethics Survey of Emerging Technologies prepared by the NGO Gen...

Oh, look. Here's yet another reason to get rid of patents: Guess what? Radio frequency identification tags are insecure. But don't ...

And talking of ID cards, here's more bad news . Update : And how could I leave out the inimitable Mr. Lettice's wise words on the ...

When will they ever learn? Unlike traditional forms of identification, the VeriChip can’t be lost, stolen, misplaced, or counterfeited. That...

For younger readers of this blog, the name Andy Tanenbaum may not mean much. But for oldies such as myself, it is highly redolent of those...

One of the areas where the commons is being increasingly invoked is that of radio spectrum, the idea being that there can be frequencies &qu...

Many people have expressed concerns about the privacy implications of Radio Frequency Identification ( RFID ) technology. But until now, RF...

Tagging objects with unique, artificial DNA sequences that act as a barcode is not new; but I had no idea that it had progressed to the poin...