Thursday, January 27, 2005
Tweet[IWS] New! RADIO FREQUENCY ID Usage in WORKPLACE-Case Studies from RAND [January 2005]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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RAND Corporation
9 to 5: Do You Know if Your Boss Knows Where You Are?
Case Studies of Radio Frequency Identification Usage in the Workplace [January 2005]
by Edward Balkovich, Tora K. Bikson and Gordon Bitko
http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR197/
or
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2005/RAND_TR197.pdf
[full-text, 38 pages -- scroll down 2 pages to start]
Abstract:
Describes a case study of six enterprises that use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to control access in the workplace to understand their policies about personally identifiable records obtained by sensing RFID-based access cards. These policies have a number of common features, but the policies are neither documented nor shared with employees. While employees ought to be informed about uses of access control system records, implementing traditional fair information practices for such records would be impractical in some situations.
CONTENTS
Preface.................................................................................................................................. iii
Figure and Tables .................................................................................................................. vii
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction..........................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER TWO
Privacy in the Workplace.........................................................................................................5
CHAPTER THREE
Methods................................................................................................................................7
CHAPTER FOUR
What We Found.....................................................................................................................9
Architecture of the RFID Systems Studied..................................................................................9
Responses to Interview Questions............................................................................................10
CHAPTER FIVE
Results ................................................................................................................................15
CHAPTER SIX
Discussion...........................................................................................................................17
Recommendations .................................................................................................................17
Reality Versus Recommendations ............................................................................................19
Conclusions ..........................................................................................................................20
Appendix: Interview Questions ...............................................................................................23
References............................................................................................................................27
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky *
Director, IWS News Bureau *
Institute for Workplace Studies *
Cornell/ILR School *
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor *
New York, NY 10016 *
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Telephone: (607) 255-2703 *
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies
School of Industrial & Labor Relations
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10016
________________________________________________________________________
RAND Corporation
9 to 5: Do You Know if Your Boss Knows Where You Are?
Case Studies of Radio Frequency Identification Usage in the Workplace [January 2005]
by Edward Balkovich, Tora K. Bikson and Gordon Bitko
http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR197/
or
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2005/RAND_TR197.pdf
[full-text, 38 pages -- scroll down 2 pages to start]
Abstract:
Describes a case study of six enterprises that use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to control access in the workplace to understand their policies about personally identifiable records obtained by sensing RFID-based access cards. These policies have a number of common features, but the policies are neither documented nor shared with employees. While employees ought to be informed about uses of access control system records, implementing traditional fair information practices for such records would be impractical in some situations.
CONTENTS
Preface.................................................................................................................................. iii
Figure and Tables .................................................................................................................. vii
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction..........................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER TWO
Privacy in the Workplace.........................................................................................................5
CHAPTER THREE
Methods................................................................................................................................7
CHAPTER FOUR
What We Found.....................................................................................................................9
Architecture of the RFID Systems Studied..................................................................................9
Responses to Interview Questions............................................................................................10
CHAPTER FIVE
Results ................................................................................................................................15
CHAPTER SIX
Discussion...........................................................................................................................17
Recommendations .................................................................................................................17
Reality Versus Recommendations ............................................................................................19
Conclusions ..........................................................................................................................20
Appendix: Interview Questions ...............................................................................................23
References............................................................................................................................27
_____________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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