Hi Mark,
Last year at De Balie public centre in Amsterdam we organized a
seminar on aspects of RFID ("Recalling RFID"). One of the speakers
Christian van 't Hof of the Rathenau Institute (a thinktank advising
the Dutch parliament on technosocial issues) presented a new research
of the institute into the public perception of RFID in The
Netherlands. Perhaps this research might provide some interesting
comparative material into the mindframe of citizens in the
Netherlands, since it was less expected what focus groups said about
RFID after hearing details on what it exactly is and what it enables:
1. Many in the focus groups said it was only ‘natural’ for such
information to be collected in a central database used by the
government.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Here's a report from the seminar:
http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2007/10/25/recalling-rfid-full-report/
The Rathenau Institute's research of public perception of RFID can be
downloaded from this page (unfortunately, only in Dutch):
http://www.rathenau.nl/showpage.asp?steID=1&item=2271
All best,
Richard
Op 6-feb-2008, om 18:13 heeft Mark Ballard het volgende geschreven:
> Interesting to note from the ICO research on attitudes to listening
> CCTV...
>
> (23 page .pdf)
> http://www.icmresearch.co.uk/pdfs/
> 2008_january_info_commission_cctv_poll.pdf
>
> That roughly 30 per cent of Brits actually "support the use of
> Close Circuit Television cameras that can record your conversations".
>
> The ICO has made much of the fact that around 70 per cent of pepole
> were opposed. But this 30 per cent is much more interesting, IMHO.
>
> Can anyone suggest any sources of information that might provide an
> insight into why certain people think this way? Other studies?
> Interest groups in support of such things?
>
> Mark.
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