Re: Self Check/RFID - Checkpoint/Bibliotheca

["M.Yamaguchi" <m dot yamaguchi at bangor dot ac dot uk>]

I don't wish to start an off-topic debate but as someone on this side of the
pond who knows a number of people who work in the area of one of the
explosions, I would like to suggest that having access to people's library
borrowing records could not have prevented the atrocity that happened in London
today.

Mieko  

Quoting Elisheva Schwartz <SCHWARTZ at juris dot law dot nyu dot edu>:

> Before we bash Homeland Security too much, let us remember that they are
> there to prevent what just happened in London today. I, for one, am thankful
> that they are on the job. (And, as Alan Dershowitz, of all people, said in
> the NY Times, we have a right to privacy, not anonymity.)
> Elisheva
> 
> >>> BridgeF at chesterfield dot gov 7/7/2005 11:51:00 AM >>>
> Hello--
> 
> Perhaps I missed something.  
> 
> Virtually all of the elements below are already available in the
> Innovative Interfaces circulation control module.  So I do not seek a
> heightened privacy risk because a library has used RFID-based item
> barcodes other than there are now two servers from which an unauthorized
> person (or the Homeland Security Department) may obtain the same kind of
> data. 
> 
> As I understand RFID in a library setting, the only information that
> must travel via the airwaves (and thus can be intercepted--at short
> distances) are the item barcodes.  And these are already visible and
> available throughout the collection.
> 
> Frank

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Mieko Yamaguchi                                m dot yamaguchi at bangor dot ac dot uk
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