RFID Privacy and Security in Drug Track and Trace ...

From Importation of Prescription Drugs, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Testimony of Philip Lee, M.D., Former Chancellor University of California, San Francisco, Professor Emeritus, San Francisco University, and Former HHS Assistant Secretary for Health ...

... "add a word of caution about the track and trace technologies. These are based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging of products by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. This appears to be the best approach available and there is an enormous literature on this topic. A web search of this issue for pharmaceuticals leads to more than 100,000 hits, and there are professional journals and trade publications solely devoted to RFID. I believe two issues still need to be fully addressed: (1) security and (2) privacy, particularly when large databases link products purchased by individual patients. I am not an expert in either of these areas, but this committee may wish to review the whole matter after it receives the Secretary's report on importation." ...