Summary


By addressing security vulnerabilities and implementing privacy protection practices, businesses can create mutually beneficial relationships with their partners, vendors, and customers while contributing to the eventual ubiquity of RFID.

RFID tags are tiny microchips that hold data. This data can directly or indirectly reveal confidential and private information about people or businesses that hold, handle, carry, or touch objects with RFID tags. Securing access to the data from unauthorized access and ensuring that the data is not used in a way that violates individuals' (or businesses') rights to privacy are critical. In this chapter, we focused on assessing security vulnerabilities of RFID systems, and we offered a set of solutions to help secure RFID data. The solutions we discussed vary in complexity and cost. Therefore, we recommended that such complexity and cost be weighed against the risks associated with security breaches.

When the ultimate ubiquity of RFID is realized, many items in the world will have an RFID tag on them whose data can be compromised. This poses a tremendous privacy riskparticularly, the risk of misuse by businesses or government agencies that have authorized access to the data. To address the issues associated with this risk, we offered a very specific set of privacy best practices that can help calm many of the concerns raised by consumers and privacy advocates.

The path ahead of RFID will include many discussions, debates, and subsequent solutions to address security and privacy issues associated with the proliferation of RFID. With this in mind, we move to the last chapter of the book, which discusses some of the more impact-full trends we expect to emerge from RFID technology and its applications.



RFID Field Guide(c) Deploying Radio Frequency Identification Systems
RFID Field Guide: Deploying Radio Frequency Identification Systems
ISBN: 0131853554
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 112

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