RFID in new Weapons
Resolution Text
| Category: | International Security | Strength: | Mild | Proposed By: | Love and esterel |
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Description: The United Nations,
-A- Convinced that improved and efficient traceability contributes to decrease illegal arms sales worldwide,
-B- Affirming that, because of their destruction potential, the right to own weapons and its related privacy shall go along with some duties, as good conduct commitment and respect of dangerous products traceability,
-C- Desiring to help judicial process over nationals and international criminality by more accurate, faster and cost saving tracing processes,
-D- Defining a Radio Frequency Identification tag (“RFID tag”) as a generally very small electronic chip storing information about the item to which it is tagged, with an antenna which can receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from a reader - a passive RFID tag doesn't have its own power source and then doesn't send information without being requested,
-E- Fully aware of the very low cost of RFID tags:
-1- Urges members to legislate that a passive and read-only “RFID tag” with encrypted information (electronic product code, serial number, manufacturer and manufactured year) and read range inferior to 10cm, to be including in most new firearms built, along with most explosive weapons, incendiary weapons and others weapons widely considered heavier;
-2- Urges members to inform weapon’s holder of the presence of the tag, at the time of the purchase, and of the presence or the use of any reader;
-3- Urges members to maintain a secured and encrypted electronic database including electronic product code and owner information for any new weapon sold;
-4- Urges members to not provide that information to entity other than accredited national administrations in justice or law enforcement departments or other nations’ government, and to allow access to the database only by court order or reasonable and publicly established national procedures;
-5- Urges members to prohibit most arms imports and exports without “RFID tag” embedded;
-6- Urges members to cooperate with other nations in order to provide related information, when significant national security matters are not at stake;
-7- Encourages members to share related RFID and computers technology with nations having not yet access to it.
Co-authored by Biotopia
- Votes For: 4,604
- Votes Against: 8,104
- defeated : Mon Jun 19 2006
