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Intressant, weis jemand ob das vorerst nur fuer Ontario gilt, oder auch fuer andere provinzen?

"Ontario's high-tech driver's licences pose privacy risk: watchdog


The technology behind Ontario's new enhanced driver's licences will allow people to secretly track other people's activities and movements unless privacy protection is added, warns the province's privacy commissioner.


13/05/2009 1:28:27 PM




CBC News

"The radio frequency identity (RFID) tag that will be embedded into the card can be read not only by authorized readers, but just as easily by unauthorized readers," Ann Cavoukian said in a statement accompanying the release of her 2008 annual report Wednesday.

Cavoukian called on Ontario's minister of transportation to include an on-off switch that will provide better privacy protection with the new licences, which are scheduled to start rolling out June 1.

On that date, the U.S. will start requiring a passport for all Canadian visitors entering the country at land crossings without an enhanced driver's licence.

According to the Ontario government, the RFID microchip inside the licence contains only a unique identification number and no other information. The licence will come with a sleeve that will protect it from being read.

However, Cavoukian suggested that because people are often required to produce their licences in many contexts away from the border, such as while banking and shopping, most drivers will abandon the use of the protective sleeve.

She favours including a feature that will prevent the RFID switch from being read unless it is turned on.

Cavoukian made recommendations about two other issues in her report. She said:

- Fees charged to patients for access to their own health records should be regulated. The privacy commissioner's office said it has received a number of complaints about the fees currently charged.

- All publicly funded Ontario universities, including affiliated universities, should be covered under the province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The recommendation came after the University of Toronto tried to block access to information about its affiliate, Victoria University, because it is not explicitly and separately named in the act".


SOURCE:
http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/N...c=abc&date=True

Hallo coffee bean

Enhanced drivers license: Pilot-Projekte in BC, Manitobe, Ontario und Quebec.
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/whti-ivho/edl-pcp-eng.html

(Bravo) Saskatchewan, die entsorgten das Projekt.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/st...s-scrapped.html

Ich bin nicht sicher, ob die Sicherheit im Sinne von Wahren der Privatsphäre (Verfolgen des RFID-Chips, der auf der Karte ist) schon gewährleistet wird (überhaupt gewährleistet werden kann). Es gibt ja immer noch die Idee, irgendwie einen On-/Off-Schaltermechanismus anzubringen, allein der politische / technische Wille scheint zu fehlen.

Gruss,

tomaha

Genau so denke ich auch darueber, tomaha. Das dieses bald ueberall zutrifft, wie auch auf kreditkarten und fuelcards zum teil jetzt auch schon.... also, a la Zeitgeist? Gut finde ich es nicht, es wird allerdings nur noch schlimmer werden, da bin ich mir ganz sicher! {Brrrrrrrrrr......schuettel).
Von Alberta finde ich nichts darueber, vorerst! Mal sehen.........

Zitat

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a la Zeitgeist?

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...it is just the beginning! Big Brother loves you....

...um die RFID auszukanzeln, solange sie im Portemonnaie stecken, kann man einen kleinen Alu Folien Umschlag machen in den man die Karte einsteckt.
Soll genug abschirmen um eine klare Lesung zu verhindern.

Schlimm wird es wenn wir alle zwangs ver"chip"t werden...
Happy V. W. E.

Alu- gute idee, danke!