rfid, books Index

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous as businesses seek to streamline supply chains and respond to mandates from key customers. But RFID and other new wireless ID technologies raise unprecedented privacy issues. RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy covers these issues from every angle and viewpoint.

This is a very rich collection of articles contributed by people with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints, and stances. It was just published from Addison-Wesley this summer and includes a number of fresh topics that are highly relevant to the ongoing debates on RFID technology and its implications for all facets of our lives. There are overlaps and discrepancies between some chapters, which actually made my reading experience exciting and fun rather than confusing and frustrating. This book may not be for people who are looking for predigested information about how to build RFID applications, how to address RFID privacy issues, etc. However, anyone who actively thinks about the issues around RFID technology would find this book highly valuable: I believe this is the best book published so far for this reader population.