Rfid Tags: A Personal Analysis

Using this wireless technology makes it harder to control the content viewed, especially when personal computers can access the network. RFID can typically be a more expensive technology than your normal barcoding system. You can choose between using active RFID tags or passive RFID tags. Passive tags are very similar to a barcode; however active tags can be activated to track movement and count in a quick manner. Active tags are more expensive, but certain types can be reused. RFID tags can also be larger than a regular barcode and can be more difficult to understand than a typical system. Also, “Some common problems with RFID are reader collision and tag collision.” (What is RFID?, 2012) These types of collision occur when multiple readers or tags are in one area making it difficult to pick up the correct signal.

Should students be tracked with Radio Frequency ID Tags? The same technology that is known for tracking packages in the mail; cars during the production progress; and clothes, and other products to ensure a steady supply chain management, also has been tracking students' whereabouts on k-12 campuses. Schools should have the choice to have “RFID” tags or not, but more importantly parents should have the choice to have their children tracked like cattle or not.

As we can see now RFID technology is becoming very popular around the world. However, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID tags pose a risk to personal privacy. RFID tags easily to be stolen by hackers. They could steal your personal information such as your credit card or your passports. For example, now in some states of the U.S, the government allows the citizen to use RFID passports. However, many citizen still disagree to apply RFID passports because they think it contains many issued such as it is vulnerable to wireless attack by hackers (it can be read up to 30 feet away and copying without permission from the RFID owner). In addition, it is even more dangerous when the RFID passports can contain information that is corresponding to the photo of the RFID tags owner. So just think what will happen if someone hack your passports and what they can do with its information from that RFID passport? Therefore, even RFID tags is becoming popular and can be the next generation technology in the real world, but now, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID still contains many problem that can harm to personal privacy.

Some schools are using RFID tags as a security measure to confirm that all students are within the campus , during school hours.

Using RFID chips in school is a bad idea because the parents don’t like that their kids can be tracked during school. They are also upset that they weren't told about the chips. Michele Tatro, a mother of one the students that got a badge, said, "This is not right for our kids,.. I'm not willing to track me and I don’t think my children should be tracked either." (Zetter) What she is saying is that she doesn’t like her daughter being tracked around the school. They can be even tracked when they go to the bathroom. That is an invasion of their privacy. In other words, parents don’t think that their kids should be tracked during school because it invades their privacy and their kids don’t like them as

One of the main and most controversial issues with the RFID chip is that it poses as an invasion of privacy (Freeman, 2007). According to Freeman, “security and privacy experts agree any new technology is always one step ahead of their best possible efforts to secure it.

Another side of this issue deals with the cons of getting an RFID implant. With any new technology, it takes a while to work out all the bugs and kinks. When putting so much information and dependence on a single chip it makes it a perfect target for hackers. In addition, if the information is writable or readable, there is also the likelihood of impersonation or data corruption(6). It is easy to hijack data off of an RFID chip. Anyone with an RFID scanner can connect to the implant and access the signal information and intercept the code that is being broadcast. This means anyone with a scanner can easily access and scan implants without anyone realizing it and steal their banking information and other identification information in a split second. Digital mimicry is a real-world likelihood, meaning

There might be some potential issues that may arise during the implementation. Using RFID tags and readers widely requires installing hundreds of WLAN access points in order to pick up the signals from the bar-coded products. As a result, this could cause electromagnetic interference with other medical devices, which may affect the outcomes. Also, the competitors in producing and purchasing drugs may gain unauthorized access to customer preferences and use the data in competitive marketing scenarios. Additionally, the tags might be disappeared and lost from the products when the patient accidentally knocked the tagged objects to the floor. When the customer purchase the drug, his identity regarding with the provided prescription is linked with the , and this electronic serial number of the product. This can be accessed thorough unauthorized users that may use the customer’s private information in bad things.

One potential application of RFID is human and animal implantation. An RFID chip is permanently injected into the skin, such as under the wrist of a person. Currently, this is a very rare practice in humans. In animals, it is frequently used for many scenarios. It is common for pet owners to have chips implanted in their pets to aid in recovery of lost animals. Outside of the home, animal implantation is a very useful tool for tracking livestock.

The website that I found list some interesting pros and cons about the RFID chip. It mention about how the chip could be used to track pets, which I've never really considered before. But the main con was that there very easy to get your hands on and unauthorized users with scanners can gain access to sensitive information fairly

Major Issues include: Effect of metal on RFID tags, RFID tag read distance, effect of materials in-between RFID tag and scanner, best tag type for readability, and importing tag information into database.

Using the RFID chip in school is a bad idea because parents don’t like the idea because parents don’t like the idea that their kids are being used as a guinea pigs to test the product. According to Michele Tatro a mother of a student who was told to wear an RFID chip in her ID badge. " So I didn’t even fathom the tracking (aspect). I had never heard of RFID until it came to my doorstep." (Zetter) In other words Michele Tatro had no idea about this RFID chip in the students ID badges until her daughter told her about it. The parents of these students should've been informed/consulted about the RFID chips before the school took on with the RFID chip project because its their right as a parent. Not informing/consulting the parents of these students

RFID, or radio frequency identification, is the new system that is replacing the use of barcodes. RFID tags allow users to more quickly obtain information from the object that the RFID tag

Often there is no record of the speed of the vehicles and also keeping a track of the vehicles

Some of the disadvantages of the RFID technology are that it is expensive to install. Small and medium scale enterprises find it costly to use it in their firms and offices. In the case of Harley Davidson, getting products from many different suppliers’ would mean that the tags may have to be installed in liquid and metal products. The problem is that the liquid and metal surfaces tend to reflect the radio waves, which makes the tags unreadable. The tags have to be placed in various alignments and angles for taking proper reading. This is a tedious task when the work involves a large organization like Harley Davidson. Another disadvantage of the technology is that interference has been observed if devices such as forklifts and walkie-talkies are in the vicinity of the distribution centers. The presence of mobile phone towers has been found to interfere with RFID radio waves. Wal-Mart, the retail sector giant, has installed billions of RFID tags in their products throughout the world and they have encountered such problems.