Use of RFID in Libraries
This coming Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about radio-frequency identification (RFID) in libraries. While the technology might make some tasks, like inventory or self-checkout, much easier, privacy advocates worry that anyone with the proper device can learn what someone’s reading, even through a backpack or book cover. It also might be possible to follow someone carrying something with an RFID tag just by tracking the signal. There are many retail applications of RFID, too.
