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  2. Anti-theft system - Wikipedia

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    Anti-theft system. Anti-theft systems protect valuables such as vehicles and personal property like wallets, phones, and jewelry. [1][2][3] They are also used in retail settings to protect merchandise in the form of security tags and labels. [4] Anti-theft systems include devices such as locks and keys, RFID tags, and GPS locators.

  3. Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia

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    Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder called a tag, a radio receiver, and a transmitter. When triggered by an electromagnetic interrogation pulse from a nearby RFID reader device, the tag transmits ...

  4. Wireless identity theft - Wikipedia

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    Wireless identity theft is a relatively new technique for gathering individuals' personal information from RF-enabled cards carried on a person in their access control, credit, debit, or government issued identification cards. [6] Each of these cards carry a radio frequency identification chip which responds to certain radio frequencies.

  5. Protection motivation theory - Wikipedia

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    Protection motivation theory (PMT) was originally created to help understand individual human responses to fear appeals. Protection motivation theory proposes that people protect themselves based on two factors: threat appraisal and coping appraisal. Threat appraisal assesses the severity of the situation and examines how serious the situation ...

  6. RFID credit cards: Should you worry about protection? - AOL

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    RFID credit cards are considered to be as safe as EMV chip cards, and data theft concerning RFID cards is uncommon. This is because of how these cards transmit information and what information is ...

  7. RFID skimming - Wikipedia

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    An RFID Blocking Card is an RFID-blocking device that operates without a battery by receiving the RFID signal from a card reader or skimmer and it scrambles the RFID signal making it unreadable by any device. Most RFID Wallets try to stop the electromagnetic fields interacting with RFID cards whereas RFID Blocking cards use 'Active Jamming ...

  8. Surveillance - Wikipedia

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    RFID chip pulled from a new credit card. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging is the use of very small electronic devices (called "RFID tags") which are applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. The tags can be read from several meters away.

  9. Defence mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalysis. In psychoanalytic theory, a defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors. [1][2][3] According to this theory, healthy people normally use different defence mechanisms throughout life.