Thursday, 8 March 2007

RFID debate by Berkeley students (2005)

Whilst researching some areas on RFID, I bumped into this well-written and articulate debate by Berkeley students. The document was jointly authored by Professors Hal Varian and Michael Franklin. The debate touched the issue on RFID and privacy. The points have been carefully divided into these positive and negative point of arguments. The positive carries: security check, counterfeiting, accuracy, innovation/business opportunity, homeland security, item/personal retrieval, privacy protection and general efficiency. The negative carries: privacy, anonymity, misusing RFID (a.k.a a false sense security), big brother, technology advancement, readiness of technology and cost. The document is readable here: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Courses/StratTech07/Debates/Debates05/F-outline.doc

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