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| − | The seminar will be discussion-driven, each period led by a small group of seminar participants and/or including invited guest experts. We are also going to try to produce a seminar position paper that summarizes our thoughts upon RFID and what material we've covered. The intent is that we will have | + | The seminar will be discussion-driven, each period led by a small group of seminar participants and/or including invited guest experts. We are also going to try to produce a seminar position paper that summarizes our thoughts upon RFID and what material we've covered. The intent is that we will all have something coherent and tangible to refer back to after a full quarter's discussion. The document will be collaboratively authored and all seminar participants will be required to contribute, although we intend this to be relatively low-investment attenuated over the course of the quarter. |
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Revision as of 04:50, 28 August 2006
Fall 2006: RFID Technology
The goal of this seminar will be to explore the broader legal and sociopolitical implications of radio frequence identification (RFID) technology.
Seminar organization
The seminar will be discussion-driven, each period led by a small group of seminar participants and/or including invited guest experts. We are also going to try to produce a seminar position paper that summarizes our thoughts upon RFID and what material we've covered. The intent is that we will all have something coherent and tangible to refer back to after a full quarter's discussion. The document will be collaboratively authored and all seminar participants will be required to contribute, although we intend this to be relatively low-investment attenuated over the course of the quarter.
Basic description of RFID:
- Roy Want, The Magic of RFID.
Research:
Applications:
- Government:
- Passports (trial programs in a few countries, e.g. US)
- 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
(Proposed) laws:
- Wisconsin law bans forcible implanting of RFID tag
- (old) proposed legislation in California that would attempt to protect consumer privacy
Potential speakers:
A few companies...
