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Recent proposals for widespread deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have raised significant concerns about consumer privacy. With current low-cost tag technology, these concerns are somewhat unavoidable, as the tags aren’t designed to differentiate between authorized readers and unauthorized ones, and likewise the readers can’t directly distinguish between tags they’re allowed to identify and those they aren’t. Moreover, the privacy risks for consumers translate directly into the potential for industrial espionage in supply-chain implementations, undermining the competitive advantages that businesses aim to realize by deploying RFID systems in the first place. This article outlines some of the recent research results in RFID privacy that attempt to address these concerns without significantly impacting the cost of the tags.
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Kaliski, B. (2004). RFID Privacy: Challenges and Progress. In: ISSE 2004 — Securing Electronic Business Processes. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-84984-7_12
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