RFID Chips

Introduction

This paper introduces the controversial issue associated with RFID chips. RFID technology has the basic feature store data and facilitates tracking where the transponder is located. The architecture of the chip technology allows monitoring both the individual as access to personal information. The monitoring of people is, in itself worrying. When a person with a chip passes for any location equipped with sensors, identification is checked automatically, and their location is confirmed. Sensors in many different places can allow a complete tracking of the activities of the person who has such a chip implanted in his body.

This technology allows us to develop a true and complete surveillance system, to be used by various institutions (police, military, medical, commercial, industrial, etc.), creating a cloud of surveillance and monitoring, policing an atmosphere, which is the basis control of society advocated. By simply crossing location data, it is possible to draw conclusions about the behavior of a person. The privacy threat comes when the electronic chip remains active even when you leave the shop. Imagine a house and all that is therein, numbered, identified, cataloged and tracked with electronic chips. A malicious person provided with a reader could, street, lift all existing assets at home and plan a visit uninvited. In this case, anonymity and privacy are gone (Radha, 2010).

Discussion

Recent years have seen considerable advances in the technology used for RFID such as reach, miniaturization, etc. However, many still need to be solved, so a wide expansion of this technology is admirable in the near future. These problems are concentrated in the very application that is made of the device, so that in certain applications RFID is already a reality whereas for others, there is only a theory since certain problems persist.

In recent news, the RFID Chips are being implanted in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The main concern of the relatives of people with Alzheimer's is their safety. As we know, those with Alzheimer's gradually losing his memory going, and the use of the RFID Chip technology allows to provide adequate treatment when they lose or if any other emergency, what usually happens frequently in advanced stages of the disease. Thus, the RFID Chip can be an effective tool when seeking to provide physical security to Alzheimer's patients and their families for emotional relief.

In this type of patient, however, risks to privacy concerns reach another level. Every person authorizing the deployment of a device like the RFID Chip must be fully aware of what he does, because of the potential harmful consequences on your individual privacy. The collection of sensitive information (medical data) of an individual cannot be done without our consent, lest the act be considered an unauthorized intrusion of privacy. Because the RFID Chip technology also matter for inoculation of an object in a person's body, this detail set another reason for the authorization of the patient. Everyone has rights over their own bodies, and only she can allow the implementation of a device under his skin. The physician, therefore, ...