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Recalling RFID

 

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Adi Tedjasaputra.
by Adi Tedjasaputra

Recalling RFID is a two-day public program on RFID and things to come. The seminar, workshops and smart opera were held in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 19-20 October 2007. As the fruit of collaboration between De Balie, the Institute for Network Cultures, Rob van Kranenburg and support from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Mondriaan Foundation, this event brought together distinctive conceptions of RFID and its uses, reconfiguring discourses as dialogue.

Reading the programme of the event, I could imagine how the organizer of the event creatively combined a balanced socio-technical event with an art show. Seminar, workshops and opera were put together as a package beyond any traditional event I have ever known.

After reading two reports on the event: Recalling RFID: Full Report and Reporting from Recalling RFID, I am quite sure that I have just missed a milestone in the RFID history.

The followings are several interesting highlights from the reports.

A research conducted by Rathenau Institute on the public perception of RFID revealed that many in the focus groups studied in the research said that it was only natural for personal information to be collected in a central database used by the government.

When asked if travel data should be linked to a specific person, 72% said this was okay for finding suspects of a crime, 61% went a step further and agreed that witnesses of a crime should be found, and a startling 60% said that public transport should be fully personalized - meaning that the transport companies and the government would always know who was where doing what.

When asked about using biometric data from passports, 55% said the photos could be used for investigations, 65% said the fingerprints could be used for investigation, 52% said it could be used for international data exchange, and 62% said it could be used to identify a person via security camera.

In another session, Timo Arnall further explained that the current discourse about RFID is clouded by metaphors because it does not have a single shape. Every medium has its own voice, and with the right design, different RFID hardware would become different expressions, and such visual language is formed culturally.

The writer is the Founder of RFID Asia - The Prominent RFID Community in Asia.


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