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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165007603321

Autore

Reader Capitol

Titolo

Summary of Spychips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cork, : Primento Digital, 2013

ISBN

2-511-00165-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (19 p.)

Disciplina

323.44

323.4482

Soggetti

Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- United States

Privacy, Right of -- United States

Radio frequency identification systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Book Presentation; Book Abstract; About the Author; Important Note About This Ebook; Summary of Spychips (Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre); Tracking Everything Everywhere: The RFID Threat; The Basics of RFID; How RFID Could Change Your World Forever; Rigging Everyday Objects to Report on Their Owners; Marketers Plan to Use RFID to Manipulate and Spy on Consumers; The Future of Shopping; How RFID Could Invade Your Private Spaces; The RFID Tags You Throw Away Say as Much as the Ones You Keep; Yes, that's Your Medicine Cabinet Talking

RFID Crimes, Should-be Crimes and Just Plain SnoopingTracking People through Their Travels; Technical Fixes to the RFID Problem; How RFID Backers Hope to Get You On Board; Numbering, Tracking, and Controlling Humans with RFID; What if Hitler Had RFID?; How You Can Help Win the RFID War; Buy the Book; About the Summary Publisher; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre in their book "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID". This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre book.



Albrecht and McIntyre explain the Radio Frequency Identification technology and reveal the history and future of strategies that would be able to track even our daily life activities. More impo