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Revision as of 18:01, 30 September 2006
The debate surrounding RFID is one that hits close to home for UW students. The CSE building is currently going through a large scale RFID deployment, foreshadowing what is to come in shops, offices, homes, and cities. In this whitepaper, we explore the broader practical, legal and sociopolitical implications of the technology.
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RFID overview
Technical questions and answers
Legal questions and answers
Sociopolitical questions and answers
RFID Resources
Ongoing academic research
Deployed or on the horizon RFID applications
Government
- Passports (trial programs in a few countries, e.g. US)
- Encryption on the passports Wired article
Commercial
- supply-side tracking of inventory (e.g. walmart)
- gathering more detailed information about consumers (increasing information asymmetry between sellers/buyers)
- enabling buyers to gather more information about products (decreasing above information asymmetry)
Security concerns
- hacking Dutch RFID passports
- RFID viruses (many say the claims are exaggerated)
Privacy & Surveillance concerns
- article expressing concern about being tracked everywhere...
- Anti-RFID site
- Privacy and RFID
Laws regulating RFID
- Wisconsin law bans forcible implanting of RFID tag
- (old) proposed legislation in California that would attempt to protect consumer privacy