Difr demo
DIFR, the Dutch Interdisciplinary Forum on RFID, finished development of the RFID Privacy Coach. Funded by NLNet Foundation, the group ( ... . It shows that, once HF EPC tags become available, consumers can use their mobile phone to verify the privacy policies enforced by RFID tags (on the goods they buy) against their personal privacy profile [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 09:03:03
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RFID Privacy and You
RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) is a tiny wireless technology which has the potential to radically transform the commerce world ... with regard to individual privacy and corporate espionage. While barcode-type RFID tags ... with regard to RFID are important not only in the theoretical sphere, but increasingly such discussions [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 04:20:47
Federal Lawmaker Targets RFID In Privacy Push
I just wrote yesterday about the new RFID law that went into effect in California on January 1st that bans “skimming” information from RFID-enabled ... all products containing RFID chips to be marked clearly so consumers know which products contain them ... protections against various privacy threats that RFID technology poses (still to be determined).The [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:23:00
RFID Security and Privacy Cybertrust Grant
UVa Today has an article about our (myself, abhi shelat, John Lach, and Ben Calhoun) recent NSF Cybertrust grant on RFID security and privacy: U.Va ... available on common RFID tags. Providing a solution that adds virtually no cost is crucial, because ... . Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security, by Brevy Cannon, 9 January 2009 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 04:27:08
Snap! Setback for makers of RFID shield
RFID privacy sleeve-maker Identity Stronghold this week learned from NASA that the metal claps holding workers’ IDs in place can pop-out, ... .) The space agency, Augustinowicz says, has only barred the shield on badges worn in a flight area clean ... has no moving parts. NASA Security Badges are a Health and Safety Risk | Universe Today Use [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 12:58:04
SCIENCE NEWS PICKS
Here are some very interesting science news picks from one of my favorite science news sites—ScienceDaily—that I’ve recently read and want to share ... Of Going Green: Industrial Hygienists Suggest Watching Out For Mold When Going Green INVASIVE ... From Slow Water Currents RFID CHIPS: RFID Chips: A Privacy And Security Pandora’s Box? SEA LEVEL RISE [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 14:04:04
Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision
Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05
In-depth report on privacy
August 25, 2008 · Filed under Biometric identification, Privacy, RFID, Surveillance society, ... . Of particular interest to me was the article, How I Stole Someone’s Identity. ThinkingShift reader, Andrew ... and invasion of privacy (well, I sure would!). So why do we share so much personal stuff online [more...]
Date: 2008-08-25 03:00:00
Sept. Scientific American: Dude, Where's My Privacy?
keyfob Gizmodo.com A new generation of RFID-enabled credit cards, like this Mastercard Paypass keyfob from Citibank, ... of privacy, to RFID chips that can track more than inventory. Here's an RFID chip reader used ... stranger than fiction in How RFID Tags Could Be Used [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 17:18:58
Society's Secrecy Fetish
A hot topic of conversation at last week's CRN/IEET seminar on Global Catastrophic Risks was the whole issue of privacy, ... , you're already using RFID. Your Speedpass contains a microchip and a small antenna that allows ... . The title was Privacy and Accountability: "You need not be paranoid to fear RFID," says an op-ed piece [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 17:57:10
RFID, Privacy and the Surveillance Society
If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed ... and civil liberties: * Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 13:40:25
RFID & Biometric ID cards
RFID & Biometric ID cards June 17, 2008 at 3:22 am · Filed under On Anti-Corporate Personhood, On Body & Health, On Education, On Politics, ... . The interrogator, an antenna packaged with a transceiver and decoder, emits a signal activating the RFID tag ... implemented and potentially poses a severe threat to our right to privacy. RFID is short [more...]
Date: 2008-06-17 07:29:34
Google + P&G = RFID + data mining
Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement. All in it together. CC/Kenneth Lu This item ( ... to bear RFID tags, which for the first time will match each of us to the individual items ... Media Info Center Posted in Big Brother, Globalism, Homeland Security, Personal tech, Privacy, RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 22:43:56
Local Library uses RFID to Manage Materials, but Privacy Concerns Abound
Continuing the theme of privacy issues related to my new home library system ( ... Public Library is using RFID chips to help manage their collection. By including bibliographic data in the microchip, the library can automate circulation functions: books can simply be passed by an RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-07-20 19:46:34
You've already used RFID
Image via WikipediaHave you ever walked out of a bookstore and walked between the unassuming shoulder-height bars at the door? ... (or security guard) will approach you to see what set it off.Guess what? That was an RFID tag printed ... higher for barcodes. What's keeping RFID from replacing barcodes is privacy issues and standardization [more...]
Date: 2008-04-13 00:59:00
Regulating technology that threatens our privacy + Bad RFID News from New York
As most of the readers of this blog know, there are two critically important RFID bills on Governor Schwarzenegger's desk awaiting his veto or signature.Before I get to those bills and the broader discussion of RFID technology and the need ... reading devises. Using an RFID to trigger an alarm if someone tries to shoplift clothing is pretty [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 20:47:00
links for 2008-12-07
World's Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills ( ... mainframe desktop) Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon - Boing Boing Ten years time we could all be wearing those!!! (tags: RFID ITGS privacy security [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 04:02:46
links for 2008-12-07
World's Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills ( ... mainframe desktop) Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon - Boing Boing Ten years time we could all be wearing those!!! (tags: RFID ITGS privacy security [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 21:02:03
Two New California Privacy Protection Laws Go Into Effect
Every year the Consumer Federation of Californiamonitors, supports, and opposes numerous bills related to privacy protection ... Reading of RFID without an Individual’s Knowledge and Prior ConsentRadio Frequency Identification ... for tracking and identification purposes. When a RFID reader emits a radio signal, the devices [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 19:36:00
Privacy Issues Highlighted in the September issue of Scientific American
Via Dan Solove: Daniel J. Solove, Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy? ... Steven Ashley, Digital Surveillance: Tools of the Spy Trade Katherine Albrecht, How RFID Tags Could ... of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security Anna Lysyanskaya, Cryptography: How to Keep Your Secrets Safe [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 17:27:19
Welcome to Parallelnormal
more about “Welcome to Parallelnormal“, posted with vodpod Posted in Big Brother, Globalism, Homeland Security, Personal tech, Privacy, Propaganda, Psyops, RFID, Surveillance, Ubiquitous computing, Uncategorized Tagged: animations, Journalism, technologists, technology, Videos [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 19:40:26
Insecure by design
Despite the availability of robust and secure solutions, organizations persist in implementing insecure design in a bid to save on cost ... Nate Lawson was concerned about the privacy implications of the popular RFID-based FasTrak toll tags ... of the card is kept in backend servers, this in fact exacerbates the plight of victims. Hackers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 09:00:36
Coast to Coast AM: U.S. Privacy Update including RFID from author of “Spychips”
Monday January 5th, 2009http://www.AlienDeceptions.Comhttp://www.coasttocoastam.comhttp://www.katherinealbrecht.comhttp://www.spychips.comhttp://www.antichips.com Privacy Update First hour guest, consumer privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht ... .” Such anti-privacy trends often get their start in England, before moving over to the States [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:36:25
Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken
Filed under: transportation hacks, cons, security hacks FasTrak is the electronic toll collection system used by the state of California ... purchased a transponder to explore these privacy concerns. The transponder is an RFID device with a receive and transmit antenna, a low powered Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller, a long life [more...]
Date: 2008-08-06 17:30:00
RFID @ TechEd 2008 Update - Your/my Privacy concerns
Hi folks - over the last week or so I've had many requests about what's happening around privacy and what does it mean to get a "Tag" this year ... on a very cut down alpha variation - together we cut the code and got about 5 mins of RFID activity [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 15:11:33
Scientific American special issue: will technology kill privacy?
... policy, insurance or self-presentation. It is useful to clarify those issues before focusing on privacy ... of the government’s surveillance powers. How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People [more...]
Date: 2008-08-30 13:42:04
The End of Privacy?
I've written an article for the September issue of Scientific American magazine called The End of Privacy? ... : Tools of the Spy Trade Katherine Albrecht, How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People ... in an Age of Terabytes and Terror Esther Dyson, How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security Anna [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 03:15:52
Favorieten en bookmarks voor 21 June
Mijn favorieten en bookmarks voor 21 June: 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make - Google Is WPP, Omnicom and Publicis' Nightmare - Marketing & ... InFeite.nl/ | RFID blijft voorlopig een belofte - Mobiel + RFID + NFC + Bluetooth + Biometrie = contact op maat - Frankwatching - Great article on identification, privacy, bluetooth, NFC and RFID 10 [more...]
Date: 2008-06-22 01:14:05
Privacy Panel ALA 2008
Privacy Panel ALA 2008 Posted by: kate in search, social networking, tech, tags: , ala2008, beth givens, cory doctorow, dan roth, ... . books on privacy and identity theft. Chapter in RFID book. Frequently on the news as an expert [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 22:07:34
[Dbworld] Second call for Paper: The 3rd International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Service
From: “Xiaochun Yang” <yangxc at mail.neu.edu.cn> ... on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware Taipei, Taiwan, May 18-21, 2009 see: http ... also to discuss location privacy in various environments that include using GPS, RFID, or sensor [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 03:18:33
RFID tracking 50 foot range admitted
New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PM By: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 18:57:30
Unscientific
The current issue of Scientific American has a special section about privacy (there's a podcast with the editor here) ... of RFID tags be regulated. This seemed both too specific and somewhat out of place [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 11:56:43
Fitbit will get you off the couch
For years, celebs and CEOs have the luxury of having a personal fitness trainer shadow them, tracking their activity levels, ... corporate keycards and RFID tags that can rat you out were an invasion of privacy, those were ... parties. Can FitBit really make tracking fitness so simple that people will change [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 00:08:00
ID Scanners....at Borders...PRIVACY ALARM? TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK....
New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PMBy: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 00:21:00
Cavoukian Warns of ID Card Threat
The Toronto Sun reports that Ontario Privacy Commissioner has warned about the privacy risks in the planned enhanced provincial drivers' license that will contain RFID technology. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 18:19:19
Industry experts: RFID policy must be measured
Industry experts: RFID policy must be measured Industry representatives, government officials, and consumer advocates discuss how to encourage growth of the identification technology while addressing privacy concerns. Wednesday, September 24 2008 10:40 AM Find more stories in: RFID, Policy [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 11:34:41
Shift in budgets by IT companies
New study from Forrester Research Inc. stated that It companies will spend more and increase their security budgets in 2009 as compare to 2008 ... Privacy Problems! Why don’t companies do resonable security? I wonder if you ever heard about RFID ... . The change will result from a shift in security strategy from computer security threat defense [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:54:41
Privacy and public safety
... with an RFID chip in it might have an identity that’s far more extensive than the Digital Native who is further ... people using this system. However, by putting information together via Google, people can be found [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:23:48
Enhanced licenses a privacy risk, says civil liberties coalition
Toronto, Ontario - Ontario’s proposed enhanced driver’s licenses (EDLs) and enhanced photo I.D ... The current DHS standard for the RFID chip on enhanced I.D. cards is without security protections ... . cards are a waste of money, pose significant privacy risks, and establish a de facto national [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 00:13:30
Alien Squiggle
PingMag has a piece about RFID chips, but, of course, being PingMag, they are less concerned with the technological possibilities, say, or privacy concerns, than with the crazy designs of the chips [more...]
Date: 2008-07-05 20:29:24
Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses
Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses November 4th, ... , it is a technically straightforward matter to copy the data from a Passport Card’s RFID tag into another, off ... an individual’s citizenship status. They are also equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 09:12:38
Industry experts: RFID policy must be measured
Industry representatives, government officials, and consumer advocates discuss how to encourage growth of the identification technology while addressing privacy concerns. [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 19:31:00
Privacy in an age of terabytes and terror
Scientific American magazine (SciAm) devotes the whole September issue to privacy in an age of rapidly developing technology ... surveillance: tools of the spy trade Night-vision cameras, biometric sensors and other gadgets already give snoops access to private spaces. Coming soon: palm-size “bug-bots”. How RFID tags could be used [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 06:47:44
Going Green Means Going R
By Robert Atkinson President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Cross-posted as part of our Breakthrough Special Innovation Issue Global warming may finally get the political attention and action it deserves. Indeed, it’s hard to go a single day without reading something about the crisis and what we should do about it [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 23:52:16
Barker’s gift … funds chip research?
The Daily Progress has an rather odd article juxtaposing our RFID research with a donation from Bob Barker (”Price is Right” host) ... when implanting RFID tags in animals. … “Animal law is a growing area that is in much discussion ... for RFID chips, which are commonly found in remote car-locking systems and touchless debit cards [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:06:14
Military challenge: Make spy data more accessible
Here’s an idea: Predator drones have no business being in Washington state. What they are talking about here is a total surveillance society ... analysts to detect and access sensors from different sources.” “Let’s say you’re an analyst, and you want (to find) out what’s going on in Bellingham, Wash., and you don’t know what sensors are available [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:34:06
First Links for 2009
I ignored my reading backlog last week and glommed down Tom Piazza’s Katrina novel, City of Refuge. It was nothing short of amazing ... a fabulous “year in publishing” post series. Hey you Southern localvore writer types: Michael ... director harassed for planning to implement RFID) but I’m thawing out. This post on Twitter types [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 00:31:26
The way the brain buys
Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers’ minds. Here is what they know about youIT MAY have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same. The answer is more sinister than depressing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 13:14:00
Microchip Additions to Clothing Possible
Link to Video Microchip Additions to Clothing Possible CHAN: Ever feel like big brother is watching you sometimes? ... a conference on Wednesday to confer upon the usage of Radio Frequency Identification in garments. This technology otherwise known as RFID employs tiny devices which can respond with identifying information [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 14:00:17
'Xmas futures, crystal balls?' - Festive Chinwag Live
I had a hectic day on Tuesday, as after speaking at the FreePint stand at Online Information I then headed into central London for the last Chinwag ... . He suggested that people worry about ID cards, but that nobody loses sleep over the data Tesco holds ... with an anecdote about attending a conference with 'active' delegate badges. Using RFID technology [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 08:55:12
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