Chips, tags and scanners: Ethical challenges for radio frequency identification

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-109

  Glasser, Dara J ^a   Goodman, Kenneth W ^b   Einspruch, Norman G ^a  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Ethics; Privacy; Radio frequency identification; RFID; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ETHICS; CONSUMER GOODS; ETHICAL ISSUES; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS; PRIVACY ISSUE; RFID APPLICATIONS; RFID SYSTEMS;

DATA PRIVACY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO SYSTEMS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 34848849758     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-006-9124-0     Document Type: Review

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