Results: RFID and Identity Management in everyday life - ITAS
Results: RFID and Identity Management in everyday life - ITAS
Results: RFID and Identity Management in everyday life - ITAS
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ID issue Implement<strong>in</strong>g <strong>RFID</strong> technology <strong>in</strong> a place where users have no choice to use it or not, br<strong>in</strong>gs about<br />
controversy. Also, because policies on data shar<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> protection rema<strong>in</strong>ed unclear for a long<br />
period, as well as the actual occasions a ticket would be read, privacy groups could cause a lot of<br />
negative publicity.<br />
In addition, the widespread <strong>and</strong> thorough implementation of the technology makes it quite likely<br />
that it will be ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed at the stadiums <strong>and</strong> used on regular matches after the World Cup event.<br />
Sceptics th<strong>in</strong>k the World Cup serves as a test to see how the technology works out <strong>in</strong> practice <strong>and</strong><br />
as a mean of justification afterwards.<br />
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(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/world_cup_rfid/, visited 26 July 2006)<br />
6. http://www.foebud.org (visited 26 July 2006)<br />
7. http://www.datenschutzzentrum.de (visited 26 July 2006)<br />
8. http://aktive-fans.de (visited 26 July 2006)<br />
9. Ermert, M., ‘World Cup 2006 ‘abused for mega-surveillance project’.’ 08 February 2005.<br />
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/08/world_cup_2006_big_brother_charges/, visited<br />
26 July)<br />
10. http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/tickets/overview.html (visited 09 July 2006)<br />
11. Best, J., ‘3,2 million World Cup tickets <strong>RFID</strong> chipped.’<br />
(http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39159715,00.htm, visited 07 July 2006)<br />
12. ‘Philips ticket technology opens the doors of the FIFA World Cup’, 14 June 2006.<br />
(http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/news/content/file_1245.html, visited 28 August<br />
2006)<br />
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