— Posted by Gérald Santucci, DG INFSO, Head of unit: Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Some 80 people will attend on 8th February the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Conference that will review progress of the implementation of the PIA Framework (PIAF) for RFID Applications, which was developed by industry (January 2011), endorsed by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (February 2011) and signed in Brussels on 6th April 2011, in the presence of Vice-President Neelie Kroes.

Since last year, several seminars and workshops have been organised by industry associations in different EU Member States, often with the support of the relevant ministries. In Germany, the Federal Office for Information Security has released Guidelines for the implementation of the RFID PIAF. GS1 has developed a PIA Software Tool to guide its member organisations in preparing PIA reports based on the PIAF.
Therefore, one year after its completion, the PIAF confirms that it represents a success of coregulation. Indeed, it was designed, developed and approved by all stakeholders from industry, data protection supervisory authorities, ENISA, and civil society. Read the full entry

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— Posted by Gérald Santucci, DG INFSO, Head of unit: Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

There were good reasons to believe that the Signing Ceremony of 6^th April 2011 in Brussels concerning the Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessment Framework for RFID Applications would be an historic moment. And it was one indeed! Beyond the very nice words that demonstrated the personal commitment of all participants and their collective adherence to the process and the outcome, I was pleased to hear we’d done so well and that industry players had already interesting thoughts about the practical implementation of the Framework.

While listening to the participants – Jacob Kohnstamm from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Udo Helmbrecht from the European Network and Information Security Agency, the leaders from Industry, and of course Vice President Neelie Kroes – it came to my mind that rarely in the development of a European policy approach to RFID have we faced the challenges and remarkable opportunities for progress that we face today and rarely have we had in our hands the knowledge and the cultural heritage to meet both. Read the full entry

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