The latest news about the Fair Tracing project was reported in a brief “Fair Tracing project chosen for Impact! Exhibition” article by principle investigator Dr Apurba Kundu that appeared in the Anglia Ruskin University Bulletin of January 2010, 7:1, p 9.
The appearance of the article has already led to a colleague in the Anglia Law School contacting Apurba to see if the project’s research outcomes are relevant to the rule of nemo dat quod non habet (i.e., that no one can pass title to goods they do not already have), and its potential solution via unique identification marks on goods, thereby allowing a chain of title to be validated. Watch this space!