There was a time when people defined privacy as the right to be left alone, spurred by Supreme Court Justices way back when who saw the need to protect from the intrusion of instant cameras, of all things. Then there was a 2.0 definition that required a person to show harm of a so-called privacy violation in such areas as intrusion upon seclusion, appropriate of name or likeness, publicity given to private life, and publicity placing a person in a false light.
A prox card is a card is a card unless you do more things with it. And that’s what is happening as radio frequency identification (RFID) in its many increasingly powerful forms becomes a diverse security and business tool to apply to people, vehicles, assets and even processes. Active or passive, more or less intelligent, contact or contactless, with ranges from inches to feet, RFID is suddenly the super solution.
While Americans are “very” seriously concerned about credit card and debit card fraud and identity theft, their overall security concern has decreased, says the most recent Unisys Security Index.