An international coalition of consumer, civil liberty and privacy organisations, including European Digital Rights has published a position statement on the use of RFID on consumer products. The statement formulates principles of fair information practice that should be applied on the use of RFIDs, such as transparency, purpose specification and collection limitation.

The organisations also outline which use of RFIDs is unacceptable; forcing customers into accepting RFID tags in the products they buy, human tracking and tags in currency.

The statement appeals to the industry to begin a voluntary moratorium on the item-level RFID tagging of consumer items until a technology assessment process is finished that involves consumers.

RFID position paper (14.11.2003)
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDposition.htm