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Describes a case study of six enterprises concerning their policies for collecting, retaining, and using personally identifiable records obtained by sensing access cards that contain radio frequency identification tags. Describes a case study of six enterprises that use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to control access in the workplace to understand their policies about personally identifiable records obtained by sensing RFID-based access cards. These policies have a number of common features, but the policies are neither documented nor shared with employees. While employees ought to be informed about uses of access control system records, implementing traditional fair information practices for such records would be impractical in some situations.