9 TO 5: Do You Know If Your Boss Knows Where You Are? Case Studies of Radio Frequency Identification Usage in the Workplace
Abstract
New information technologies have created unprecedented opportunities to collect, store, and transfer information. Technology can be applied to make our lives both easier and safer, but it can also diminish our privacy and civil liberties. Effective decision making about relationships among personal convenience, public safety, security, and privacy requires many kinds of knowledge. Together with Carnegie Mellon University, we outlined an empirical approach to generating such knowledge (Balkovich et al., 2004). As a starting point, RAND examined a commonly used information technology-Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in access cards. Access cards are often used in the workplace to control entry to facilities. Data describing a card's use by an individual employee can be collected by an access control system and analyzed. This common deployment of RFID technology should require policies to balance the concerns of personal convenience, security, and privacy when access cards are used. This report examines such contemporary workplace policies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA430406
Entities
People
- Edward Balkovich
- Gordon Bitko
- Tora K. Bikson
Organizations
- RAND Corporation