s this article goes to press, the Cambridge Analytica scandal is dominating the headlines, with much handwringing over its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election and Facebook's irresponsible data-sharing practices. Amid all the media hysteria, however, lies an uncomfortable truth: while technology has enabled more sophisticated ways for partisans to manipulate the electorate, it alone isn't the problem; to find the real source, we must look deep within ourselves.
NEW TECHNOLOGY, OLD STRATEGYThe Cambridge Analytica story begins in 2014, when data scientist Aleksandr Kogan (aka Aleksandr Specters) and a few others variously connected with Cambridge University set up a company called Global Science Research to market a Facebook app, "thisisyourdigitallife," that harvested personal information from participants who thought they were taking some sort of personality test, and leveraged that information to derive other politically useful intelligence on an estimated 50 million people. 1 This information found its way to the clandestine political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which has worked with Republican politicians in the US since 2012 and claims to have played a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump. 2 The story was made public by whistleblower Christopher Wylie.The degree to which Facebook was aware of the use of this information from 2015 to early 2018 remains in dispute, as is the degree to which the 2016 US presidential race was influenced. Accusations of collusion between Cambridge Analytica, the Canadian data analysis firm Aggregate IQ (associated with several Brexit referendum
This paper describes different aspects of a typical RFID implementation. Section 1 provides a brief overview of the concept of Automatic Identification and compares the use of different technologies while Section 2 describes the basic components of a typical RFID system. Section 3 and Section 4 deal with the detailed specifications of RFID transponders and RFID interrogators respectively. Section 5 highlights different RFID standards and protocols and Section 6 enumerates the wide variety of applications where RFID systems are known to have made a positive improvement. Section 7 deals with privacy issues concerning the use of RFIDs and Section 8 describes common RFID system vulnerabilities. Section 9 covers a variety of RFID security issues, followed by a detailed listing of countermeasures and precautions in Section 10.
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