Re: Self Check/RFID - Checkpoint/Bibliotheca

["said shafik" <saidshafik at hotmail dot com>]

I agree, because the RFID and Privacy relation goes far passing the Library 
to reach every activity in our lives as Americans.
Back to the isuue, we all know Millennium does not store patron transations 
and clear it from the system, except those areas we have idintified them 
moons back on the same list when the Privacy Act appeared.
RFID server STORES transactions, even if you ask the company to remove the 
database files, still there are daily logs are created to store 
transactions, and others for errors. This has nothing to do with Radio 
frecuancy or barcodes, it trigger alog entery once patron scans item(s), or 
an antena beeps. From the antena IP address you can know the gate which 
transaction took place.
Not trying to be funny in a time people die everywhere from terror attacks, 
but the new meaning for RFID on the internet nowadays is Round Find Identify 
Detain!
As a proud American, I am ready to give away part of my privacy to The 
Homeland Security if a situation of "Clear and Present Danger" appears and 
my patron records and transaction would help.


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Said Shafik
System Librarian
The Emirates Center for Strategic
Studies & Research
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
http://www.ecssr.com
Work Tel: ++971(0)2 6424000
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> From: "M.Yamaguchi" <m dot yamaguchi at bangor dot ac dot uk>
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> Subject: Re: Self Check/RFID - Checkpoint/Bibliotheca
> Date: Thu,  7 Jul 2005 22:40:34 +0100
>
> 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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