Innovative Automatic Identification and Location-Based Services

Michael, Katina; Michael, M.G.

doi:10.4018/978-1-59904-795-9

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“…This is especially true of automatic identification and location-based services which can be considered as both a product and process [15]. Consider what happened in the case of Baja Beach Club in Spain.…”

Section: The Commercialisation Of Complex Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The diffusion of RFID implants for access control and epayments: A case study on Baja Beach Club in Barcelona

Michael

2010

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society

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RFID implants for humans have been used in a variety of contexts since their commercial inception in 2003. The VeriChip product which typically carries a 16 digit number was first marketed as an identification device in the ehealth space (e.g. for emergency response), then as an access control mechanism (e.g. security), and finally as an epayment solution (e.g. the purchase of drinks at clubs). This paper investigates the story behind RFID implants for club patronage access control and epayment. The study uses a two-fold qualitative approach in the collection of data for the single case study of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain. A single semi-structured interview was conducted with the IT Manager who created the application at the club that utilised the human chipping product. The full length interview was conducted in Spanish, translated into English, and analysed using content analysis. The interview was supported by an exhaustive search online for documents that met the criteria "Baja Beach Club + implants". The documents returned by this search included academic articles, government policy documents, publicly accessible blogs and media commentary. Search engine results online uncovered one other dominant document type-that of popular religious literature linking implantable microchips in humans to end-time prophecy in the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament. The findings indicate that despite the successful application of RFID implants for club patrons, the complexity of the technology during trialability led to its stilted diffusion. The paper draws on Roger's (1995) diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory to describe the poor uptake of the technology for access control worldwide but points to the possibility that this is only a short-term trend. The paper also ponders on whether the slow rate of adoption of humancentric implantables will continue and what factors might need to be overcome before widespread diffusion can occur.

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Section: The Commercialisation Of Complex Productsmentioning

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The diffusion of RFID implants for access control and epayments: A case study on Baja Beach Club in Barcelona

Michael

2010

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society

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“…The existence of big data will change, in both small and large ways, how we live. When devices are implantable or embedded, they can supply corporations with intimate details about our personhood, such as when our pulse rate begins to race and when our temperature rises; even the intonation in our voice can speak volumes if these data are being tracked continuously [16].…”

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Überveillance, the web of things, and people: What is the culmination of all this surveillance?

Michael

Perakslis

2015

IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.

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H istorically, telecommunications companies have measured voice and data traffic for reasons related to service dimensioning and engineering management. Today, personalized devices make it possible to understand not only the requirements for the capacity needed in a network but also household and individual usage patterns. This has changed the way that companies now market their products and services and sell directly to individuals. Beyond marketing is the intimate knowledge gathered of why people do things, inferred by pattern-of-life data and metadata. This is the precise knowledge of customer behaviors, traits, habits, and characteristics. The Internet of Things (IoT) promises even greater connectedness as individual items begin to come alive on a global network, each with its respective IP address. Big data will soon be able to reveal patterns and trends that were previously incalculable. We will seek even greater levels of scrutiny in the not-toodistant future, heralding in an age of überveillance. We now know much more about consumers than traditional call holding times and the location of an individual user in a mobile network. Using evidence-based approaches, we can know what consumers are thinking, how they are feeling, and even what they will do next with a high degree of accuracy. Embedded surveillance devices will likely replace clunky mobile and wearable handsets and headsets, which will introduce an ability to transcend physical boundaries.

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“…Humancentric implants are giving rise to the Electrophorus [36, p. 313], the bearer of electric technology; an individual entity very different from the sci-fi notion of Cyborg as portrayed in such popular television series as the Six Million Dollar Man (1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978). In its current state, the Electrophorus relies on a device being triggered wirelessly when it enters an electromagnetic fi eld; these properties now mean that systems can interact with people within a spatial dimension, unobtrusively [62]. And it is surely not simple coincidence that alongside überveillance we are witnessing the philosophical reawakening (throughout most of the fundamental streams running through our culture) of Nietzsche's Übermensch -the overcoming of the "all-too-human" [25].…”

Section: Dataveillance To üBerveillancementioning

confidence: 99%