Good grief.
Before we do anything specific depending on the RFID tags, we'd like
to know whether they are useful for the stated purpose. If they don't
give us the information we need (if they can't be relied on to be read
correctly by the RFID reader, which records the RFID tag, which can
later be associated with a database entry containing the information
you gave when you registered), they can't replace the blue sheets or
do anything else that is useful. If they are functional, we can go on
to rehash a discussion that has happened on this list many times -
replace the blue sheet, or do other things with it.
We're not selling your souls. We're not taking pictures of you with a
view to putting you under a spell. We're not selling your passport
data to witch doctors. We're not doing a whole long list of things.
We're seeing if the RFID system in question works. Nothing more,
nothing less.
And BTW, the blue sheet gave a key (your email address) that could be
associated with the information you gave when you registered, or could
be looked up in google to find other interesting things about you.
Chill Out.
Go ahead and opt out. PLEASE opt out if you you can't deal with
technology that might change - as all IETF technology does over time.
Leave Alexa out of this.
On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:15 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:06:31AM +0200,
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote
a message of 17 lines which said:
Any statement somewhere explaining what will be done with the data?
Since you talk about "electronic blue sheets", I assume there will
be many sensors, at least one per room so, in theory, the readers
may be able to gather a lot of data about attendees.
OK, the complete lack of answer is in itself a good indication. I will
opt out.
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