A new law in Washington state -- the first of its kind in the U.S.-- makes it a Class C felony to intentionally scan another person's identification remotely without his or her knowledge and consent, for the purpose of fraud, identity theft or some other illegal purpose.
The increase in available RFID technology and applications suggests that the market is moving beyond traditional closed-loop application environments.
When many industry observers talk about how IT is changing security, the discussion typically reverts to the concept of hanging 30-year-old panel technology onto 10-year-old Ethernet backbones.
- By Martin Huddart
- Feb 01, 2008