Patent ID: 8681984

Claim:
A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) personal privacy control server, the RFID personal privacy control server comprising: a context-aware information collecting unit that collects at least one context-aware information about a user; a personal privacy level adjusting unit that adjusts a personal privacy level of the user based on the collected context-aware information; and a personal privacy control unit that determines, according to the adjusted personal privacy level, whether access of an RFID reader to RFID tag information is allowed, the RFID tag information corresponding to an RFID tag associated with the user, wherein the personal privacy level adjusting unit classifies the at least one context-away information according to a predetermined criterion, estimates correlation between the classified context-aware information, and adjusts the personal privacy levels based on the estimated correlation, a log audit processing unit that transmits a request for context information to the user, and receives, from a user, second context-aware information in response to the request; wherein the privacy level adjusting unit adjusts the privacy level of the user based on the second context-aware information inputted by the user and the context aware information received from the context aware information collecting unit, and wherein the personal privacy control unit determines whether the access of the RFID reader to the RFID tag information is allowed further based on the second context-aware information.