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Kenneth Farrall

Privacy and Cyber-rights
Technology Basics
Protocols (EPC, PML...)
Applications
Economics
History
Recent News
Online News Sources
Industry Sites
Standards Bodies


Privacy and Cyber-rights

General
click for full paper Tag, You’re It: Privacy Implications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology. Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. (2004, February) , Information and Privacy Commissioner Ontario.

click for full paper Position Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products

click for full paper Adopting Fair Information Practices to Low Cost RFID Systems. Garfinkel, S. (2002). Presented at Ubiquitous Computing 2002 Privacy Workshop.

click for full paper RFID Systems, Security & Privacy Implications. Sanjay E. Sarma, Stephen A. Weis, Daniel W. Engels (2002, November 1). Auto ID Center White Paper

click for full paper Privacy and Auto ID. RFIDNews, Collection of articles and debate. May 2004.


Technical
click for full paper Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing. Beresford, A., & Stajano, F. (2003.) IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2(1):46--55, 2003. 69.

click for full paper Survey on Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing. Gorlach, A., Heinemann, A., & Terpstra, W. (2004). Presented at SPPC: Workshop on Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing, April 20, 2004.

click for full paper Personal Privacy and Use of RFID Technology in Libraries. Chachra, V. & McPherson, D. (2003). White paper, VTLS Inc.

click for full paper Privacy by design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems. Langheinrich, M., In Ubicomp 2001 Proceedings.

click for full paper The Blocker Tag: Selective Blocking of RFID Tags for Consumer Privacy. Juels, A., Rivest, R., Szydlo, M. (2003). In V. Atluri, ed. 8th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 103-111. ACM Press. 2003.

click for full paper Safeguard Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing with Decentralized Information Spaces: Bridging the Technical and the Social. Jiang, X. (2003). Unpublished paper for UC Berkeley Computer Science Division.

click for full paper  Security and Privacy Aspects of Low-Cost Radio Frequency Identification Systems. Weis, S., Sarma, S., Rivest, R., & Engels, D. (2003). 1st Annual Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing.

Technology Basics
 Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds with Electronic Tags
Proceedings of CHI'99, ACM Press, April, 1999. (pdf of ppt slides)

click for full paper Infrastructure for Virtual Counterparts of Real World Objects. Romer, K., Mattern, F., Dubendorfer, T., & Senn, J. (no date)

click for full paper The Networked Physical World: Proposals for Engineering the Next Generation of Computing, Commerce, and Automatic-Indentification. Sarma, S., Brock, D., & Ashton, K. (2000). Auto-ID Center White Paper.

click for full paper Optimizing read range in RFID systems. Sorrells, P. (2000). Ednmag.com, December 7, 2000.

click for full paper Physical-Virtual instead of Physical or Virtual - Designing Artefacts for Future Knowledge Work Environments
Pederson, T. (1999). , in Bullinger, H.-J., and Ziegler, J. (Eds.): Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp1070-1074 , ISBN 0-8058-3392-7.

click for full paper Internet and Auto-ID Architecture. Yojiro UO, Yuusuke KAWAKITA, Hisakazu HADA, Osamu NAKAMURA, Jun MURAI. (October 1, 2003) Auto-ID White Paper

click for full paper Micronetwork Interfaces for RFID Tags: A New Paradigm for Reader-Tag Communication. Engels, D. (2001, October) AutoID Center Technical Report.

Protocols

click for full paper The Virtual Electronic Product Code. Brock, D. (2002). Auto-ID Center White Paper.

click for full paper The Electronic Product Code™ (EPC™) as a Meta Code. David L. Brock (2003, June 1) Auto ID Center White Paper

click for full paper A Comparison of the Electronic Product Code Identification Scheme & the Internet Protocol Address Identification Scheme. Engels, D. (2002, June 1) Technical memo, Auti-ID Center

click for full paper On the Future of RFID Tags and Protocols. Sanjay Sarma, Daniel W. Engels (2003, June) Auto-ID Center Technical Report.

Application Development (technical papers)

 Ubiquitous Computing: Why Auto-ID is the Logical Next Step in Enterprise Automation. Fleisch, E., & Dierkes, M. (2003). Auto-ID Center White Paper.

click for full paper Prediction, Detection, and Proof:An Integrated Auto-ID Solution to Retail Theft. Robin Koh, Edmund W. Schuster, Nhat-So Lam (2003, June) Auto ID Center White paper

Economics

click for full paper An Analysis of the Fundamental Constraints on Low-Cost Passive Radio-Frequency Identification System Design
Scharfeld, T. (2001) MIT Master's Thesis.

click for full paper Return on Investment Study for RFID Solution. White Paper, RFID Wizards Inc.

click for full paper Low Cost and Reliable RFID Tags for All Frequencies. Kevin Chung, Ph.D., Avante International Technology, Inc. White Paper.

History

Shrouds of Time: the history of RFID. Landt, J. (2001). Report for the Association of Automatic Identification and Data capture Technologies (AIM).


Why Technical Breakthroughs Fail: A History of Public Concern with Emerging Technologies. Brian Cantwell (2002, November 1) Auto ID Center White Paper


































RFID/electronic privacy issue space
web graph (click for detail)


Recent News
  • RFID and privacy: Debate heating up in Washington . InfoWorld   "While a number of privacy groups have raised concerns about the potential uses of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, the US Congress hasn’t yet ..."
  • 'World's smallest' RFID reader supports a magic touch. Graeme Wearden, ZDNet UK. 27 May 2004.
  • Long-distance RFID reader. Food Production Daily, News Analysis. 2004
  • RFID Tag Market Up for Grabs, says ABI Research. May 25.
  • Who's Afraid of RFID?. Jim Harper, Tech Central Station. May 24, 2004.
  • FCC Loosens RFID Rule for Homeland Security. By Kimberly Hill Wireless NewsFactor April 16, 2004 1:06PM

  • RFID news sources
    RFID Log
    RFID Journal

    RFID Standards Bodies
    EPC Global

    RFID Industry Sites
    Alien Technology (Readers, tags.)
    Matrics (RFID Readers, tags.)
    Texas Instruments (Readers, tags)
    VeriChip (human implant chips)

    Application Watch

    Electronic Toll Collection and Vehicle Registration
    see list at RFIDxchange