The IHT reports “the European Commission said Thursday that it would not curb the growth of the tiny radio transmitter tags that transportation companies,retailers and manufacturers use to track goods and purchases,saying it was confident that the RFID tags could be designed to protect consumer privacy.”I know that most of you are wondering what new regulation I am going to propose today,”said Viviane Reding, the European commissioner responsible for Internet and communications, at a news conference at the Cebit technology convention in Hannover.”Well, today I am here to tell you that on RFIDs, there is not going to be a regulation,”she said, referring to radio frequency identification tags”.

No regulations planned for radio ID tags, EU says