I am putting an interest in a coming conference: International Trade and Legal Conference. The details could be found here: http://www.iltc.eu/
One of the presenters (Julie Anne Zetler of Macquarie University) will be presenting something on privacy and data protection on medical perspective (electronic health records). It seems to be interesting. Hope to be able to meeting her and exchange some of my thoughts on medical informatics and its interrelationship with RFID technology. I have registered my interest in this conference and e-mailed my abstract which is as follows:-
Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID):
Is legal risk management relevant in consumer privacy?
By Noriswadi Ismail
British Chevening Scholar, University of Strathclyde
RFID is regarded as technological perfection in many global industries; retails, logistics, libraries, passports, surveillance, healthcare and banking. RFID proponents assert that the technology has been complementing global industries’ value chain and business continuity. Global market analysis has predicted that the Return of Investment from this technology will massively attract widespread deployment by 2010. Whilst the strength of this technology remains relevant for the proponents, there remain handful debates on the weaknesses of RFID’s data surveillance. Due to the latter, this paper will reveal the weaknesses and how it leads to privacy debates in consumer privacy. Regulatory and commercial developments from the United Kingdom and European Union will be painstakingly analysed. This paper will also comparatively analyse the developments in Malaysia and Singapore. It will endeavour to outline the respective Regulators’ position and selected industries’ feedbacks in RFID on cursory note. Significantly, this paper will attempt to argue the relevance of legal risk management in consumer privacy as the key question to be answered. It will explore a potential approach that could be balanced between RFID technology vis-à-vis consumer privacy.
Keywords: RFID, data surveillance, privacy, consumer privacy, legal risk management
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