The Use of Radio Frequency Identification in Access Cards.
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Description
Privacy in the Workplace
Case Studies on the Use of Radio Frequency Identification in Access Cards
Proposed retail uses of Radio Frequency
Identifi cation (RFID) tags have generated
privacy concerns, which, in turn, have
spurred legislative proposals to limit their
use in six states. Such concerns center around uses
of RFID tags where an individual does not know
that he or she has been associated with the tag
or who may be reading the data gathered and for
what purpose.
Although such “non cooperative” uses of RFID
technology have yet to be deployed, let alone
understood, cooperative uses of RFID are wide-
spread in workplace access cards, credit cards, and
toll tags. What can we learn from that experience
that is applicable to the current debate?
RAND Corporation researchers sought to
answer this question by undertaking a replicated
case study of six private-sector companies with
1,500 employees or more to understand their policies for collecting, retaining, and using records
obtained by sensing RFID-based access cards.
