Consumer Privacy in a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag Populated Environment: A Classification of Threats and Evaluation of Existing Solutions

摘要

Deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology requires the attention of many parties—including manufacturers, distributors and consumers—in order to be done efficiently and safely. Although RFID technology is not new per se, the conceptual changes that wide range deployment introduces require additional measures to ensure consumer privacy. This paper proposes a classification of threats for evaluating consumer privacy issues related to RFID technology and evaluates some currently available solutions. It is shown that the currently available solutions do not adequately ensure consumer privacy in RFID populated environments.