Author
Balkovich, Edward ; Bikson, Tora K. ; Bitko, Gordon
Year
2005
Publisher
RAND Corporation
Language
English
Pages
5
ISBN
978-0-83303-719-0
Last Update
10-Oct-2024
Keywords
Technology
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 decisionmaking 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...
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