Privacy threats and issues in mobile RFID

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Privacy threats and issues in mobile RFID

• FromIEEE
• AuthorHyangjin Lee,
• Jeeyeon Kim.
• Presented by Shih Yu Chen

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Introduction

• Identify objects and users.
• Automatically take advantage of contextual
  information.
• A core technology of ubiquitous infrastructure.
• Been applied to many applications.

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Applications
Retail and supply chain
Mobile RFID
Homecare
Healthcare
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Mobile RFID

• Use mobile phone as RFID reader.
• By integrating RFID and wireless sensor network
  infrastructure with mobile communication and
  wireless internet.
• Need to exist telecommunication companies between
  users and enterprise server.

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Air Interface
RFID tags
..
RFID Reader
.
Gateway
Service Provider
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Example
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Privacy threats in RFID

• Location threat
• Users
• Tagged objects
• Preference threat
• Constellation threat
• Transaction threat

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Proposed solution for privacy threats in RFID

• Killing and sleeping
• Tag password
• Verify ok ? information
• Tag pseudonyms
• Encryption
• Blocking
• Privacy bit0?public1?private

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Additional privacy threats in mobile RFID

• Tag-carrying ? Reader-carrying.risk?
• Mobility
• Unlimited collection of personal information.
• Seriously location privacy
• By mobile phone
• Service model of mobile RFID application
• B2C

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Conclusion

• Mobile RFID is a newly promising application.
• But , mobility of reader and its service model
  will cause some additional privacy threats.