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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RFID Site Begins Damage Control
As Auto-ID Center pulls docs, CASPIAN directs citizens to mirror site
July 7, 2003 15:51 EST
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) revealed this morning that anyone could download documents labeled "confidential" from the home page of the MIT Auto-ID Center. The Auto-ID Center is the organization entrusted with developing a global Internet infrastructure for radio frequency identification (RFID), online at http://www.autoidcenter.org.
"In a damage control effort, the Center appears to be pulling embarrassing documents," says Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN Founder and Director. "Within hours of our press release, a search for 'confidential' documents returned only 13 unremarkable items. This number has been fluctuating throughout the day as the Center scrambles to plug its security holes. Prior to the press release, 68 'confidential' documents were available."
Several members of the Internet community mirrored the documents found on Center's web site at www.autoidcenter.org before the site was secured. One such mirror can be found at:
http://www.cryptome.org/rfid-docs.htm.
"It's about time for the Auto-ID Center to secure its web site," says Albrecht. "Hundreds of confidential and embarrassing internal documents have been readily available at the web site at least since March when we first stumbled onto them."
The original press release is at:
http://www.nocards.org/press/pressrelease07-07-03_1.shtml
along with links to the mirrored versions of the referenced internal documents
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a grass-roots consumer group fighting retail surveillance schemes since 1999. With members in all 50 U.S. states and 15 nations across the globe, CASPIAN seeks to educate consumers about marketing strategies that invade their privacy and to encourage privacy-conscious shopping habits across the retail spectrum.
For more information about CASPIAN, visit http://www.nocards.org.
Katherine Albrecht, CASPIAN Founder and Director: (877) 287-5854
Mary Starrett, CASPIAN Media Associate: (602) 315-6193
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