RFID

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RFID
RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION

• Jenna Nash
• MJ Ko
• Katie Stange
• Kennedy Carruthers

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What is RFID?

• Radio Frequency Identification
• A small chip or tag that reads radio waves used
  for identification purposes
• Does not have to be in line of vision
• Can be attached to/implanted in products,
  animals, or even human beings

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How does RFID work?

• Tags (or chips) consist of two parts
• 1) Antennae
• 2) Processor/ storage
• Receives signal from reader and gives a return
  signal with ID number
• Reader sends number to database or server

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Types of RFID tags

• ACTIVE Tag signal availability of 100ft.
• HIGH signal strength
• VERY LOW required signal strength
  from the reader
• EX) Railway cars on a track
• SEMI- PASSIVE Tag signal availability only
  within field of reader
• LOW signal strength
• LOW required signal strength from
  the reader
• PASSIVE Tag signal availability lt 10 ft.
• VERY LOW signal strength
• VERY HIGH signal strength required from
  reader
• EX) Retail Checkout
• Widely used because very cheap to make

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RFID Technology A History

• WWII (1939-1945) Germans, British, Japanese and
  Americans all using radar to warn of approaching
  enemy aircraft.
• IFF Transponder Identify Friend or Foe
  (British)

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RFID Technology A History

• 1970s
• US government uses RFID to track nuclear
  materials in transit.
• US Department of Agriculture partners with
  research lab to develop a new passive RFID
  system to track cows and other livestock

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RFID Technology A History

• 1990s RFID transforms into a networking
  technology (tags like barcodes that are linked to
  an online database) used to track items in supply
  chain

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RFID Today

• Present RFID technology is widely used in
  product tracking
• Products can be scanned in mass quantities and
  tracked from manufacturer to retail to end
  consumer.
• Used by many large retailers such as Wal Mart

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RFID Today

• Its Everywhere!
• RFID tags in
• CREDIT CARDS
• CAR HOME KEYS
• PASSPORTS
• CLOTHING
• PACKAGED FOODS
• EVERYDAY PRODUCTS

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RFID Today

• AND NOW..IN YOU?
• In 1994, the FDA approved implanted RFID chips
  for humans
• Used for security and automation of daily tasks
• An extension of biometrics in theory it is more
  secure than eye scans or finger prints

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The Controversy
Do the advantages of RFID tags and implanted
chips, such as security and convenience, outweigh
its associated risks, such as breaches in
personal privacy?
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Advantages of RFID chips

• Safety and Security
• Locate/identify missing persons
• Monitor prisoners, people on
• probation, and predators

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Advantages of RFID chips

• Easy Access
• Secure entry to office and residential buildings
  other venues
• Access by authorized personnel only
• Ease security concerns

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Advantages of RFID chips

• Medical Emergencies
• Monitor/Id patients more efficiently
• Alzheimers Disease
• Quickly access patient medical records
• Allergies, current medications, family history,
  etc.
• Immediate contact with EMS

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Advantages of RFID chips

• Advanced Product Tracking
• Real- time data management
• Dramatic benefits to manufacturing process

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Advantages of RFID chips

• Quick Convenience
• Express payment more efficient check in/out
• Grocery Store, Library, Hospital
• Instant identification
• Time saver

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-ZYY85IyDNM
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Risky Business

• The Downsides and Disadvantages to RFID Technology

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Breach of Security

• Illicit use
• Hacking/viruses
• Frequencies can be intercepted and manipulated or
  counterfeited due to novelty of technology
• Physical theft
• Threat of physical harm associated with implanted
  identification information

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• Infiltrated RFID systems can mean
• Identity Theft
• Unauthorized logging of purchases
• Tracking/tracing whereabouts of products beyond
  the retail environment
• Stalking

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Technological Limitations

• RFID chips readable from ONLY 100ft. away
• Useless in terms of finding lost persons

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Invasions of Privacy

• Human Implantation
• With the widespread usage of the tags, the
  whereabouts of people with RFID implants may
  potentially be tracked
• Non-democratic governments can gain even more
  power to deprive people of freedom and privacy

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Invasions of Privacy

• Consumer products
• Spy Chips Consumer often unaware of tags
  embedded in products
• Passive tag design allows for tracking to
  continue after the purchase has been made
• Scanning conducted from far away without consumer
  knowledge
• http//youtube.com/watch?vtiOuZWZ1Dac

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• A Simple Solution?
• 1) STRICTLY ENFORCED GOVERNMENT REGULATION
  SYSTEM
• 2) IMPLANTED RFID OPTIONS
• 3) REMOVE THE SECRECY FACTOR

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Requirements for Regulation

• Authorized access to Homeland Security and other
  security companies
• Special identification codes to ensure privacy
  protection
• Tracking in emergency situations only
• Enhanced security systems

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Optional Removal

• Adults have the right to choose to have RFID chip
  implanted in them or not.
• Any children implanted with RFID should have the
  option to remove it once they turn 18.

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VeriChip Corp. Privacy Protection System

• 16 digit identification number
• Entered into secure database
• Information granted to the systems are at the
  hands of the customer

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Clipped Tagsanother way to regulate

• RFID tag designed to improve consumer privacy
  protection
• Consumers can take off a part of the RFID tag
• Only can be read at short range
• Still can be used for later purposes

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Obivision

• Open Business Innovation
• RFID tags with data freely transferable
• Privacy Mode after the sale
• Business benefit while protecting consumers
  privacy
• Without changing our pattern of thought, we will
  not be able to solve the problems we created with
  our current patterns of thought
• -Albert Einstein

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Zombie Tags

• An RFID tag that can be deactivated
• Once you leave the store, there is a special
  reader that sends a special deactivating signal
  to the tag
• RFID tag "dies."

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Remove the Secrecy Factor

• Notification on products that contain RFID tags
• Just like warning labels, ingredient lists,
  nutritional information
• Remove the notion that RFID tags are spy tags

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RULE Utilitarian decision

• Advantages
• Revolutionize inventory systems/ product tracking
  in real time
• Security
• Helpful in medical and safety emergencies
• Promotes convenience to enhance consumer
  experience

• Disadvantages
• Privacy invasion
• Unauthorized purchase logs
• Human tracking
• Extreme circumstances when counterfeited
• Surgery to replace or remove chip
• Identity theft