Posted on 02/12/2006 4:28:09 PM PST by wagglebee
An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.
Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries.
RFID chips – inexpensive radio transmitters that give off a unique identifying signal – have been implanted in pets or attached to goods so they can be tracked in transit.
“There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered,” said Liz McIntyre, who campaigns against the use of identification technology.
But Sean Darks, chief executive of CityWatcher, said the glass-encased chips were like identity cards. They are planted in the upper right arm of the recipient, and “read” by a device similar to a cardreader.
“There’s nothing pulsing or sending out a signal,” said Mr Darks, who has had a chip in his own arm. “It’s not a GPS chip. My wife can’t tell where I am.”
The technology’s defenders say it is acceptable as long as it is not compulsory. But critics say any implanted device could be used to track the “wearer” without their knowledge.
VeriChip – the US company that made the devices and claims to have the only chips that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration – said the implants were designed primarily for medical purposes.
So far around 70 people in the US have had the implants, the company said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549425/posts
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Parents Protest School Mandate That Students Wear Radio ID Tags
Posted by BenLurkin
On News/Activism 02/09/2005 8:29:20 PM EST · 152 replies · 1,792+ views
Associated Press ^ | -02-09-05 1927EST | Lisa Leff
SUTTER, Calif. (AP) - The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their children of privacy. The badges introduced at Brittan Elementary School on Jan. 18 rely on the same radio frequency and scanner technology that companies use to track livestock and product inventory. While similar devices are being tested at several schools in Japan so parents can know when their children arrive and leave, Brittan appears to be the first U.S. school district to embrace such...
Hmmm, kind of like the SS "not to be used for identification" cards.
How is the state expected to be able to inventory its property?
The "VeriChip" which is what the article is referring to has recently been proven it can be cloned.
"I will briefly describe the steps that I went through to duplicate an ID-only RFID tag using my proxmarkii device. We will be cloning a Verichip, which should not rationally make any of this more interesting but does."
http://cq.cx/verichip.pl
Apparently the company that just had two of their employees 'chipped' was not aware of that fact.
"No one I spoke with at Six Sigma Security or at CityWatcher knew that the VeriChip had been hacked," said McIntyre, author of a chapter titled "Hacking the Prox Card" for Simson Garfinkel's recent "RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy."
"They were also surprised to hear of VeriChip's downsides as a medical device," he added. "It was clear they weren't aware of some of the controversy surrounding the implant."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48760
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1577265/posts
The End of the American Way
This goes a bit beyond that. Implied in having an employee 'mandatorily comply' with having an implanted chip is that the employee is the property of the employer.
The United States fought its bloodiest war in history over that concept.
Creepiness ping.
Actually, there is even more problems then identity threft and theology.
All of your data goes into a corporate digital library by Monsanto Company.
http://nationalpropertyowners.org/nonais.html
Monsanto also enjoys patenting genes.
Funding for all these new microchiping is made possible by UN granting.
Grant monies give ownership to the NGOs for everything their monies touch.
Monsanto Foundations are one of the funders of the NGOs.
That is why I won't own a cell phone.
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"I think its an excellant idea for the illegals, muslims and sex offenders."
Mega dittos
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"No, it will be termed 'mandatory compliance'. This is something for which there needs to be a Constitutional amendment. There will be too many ways to weasel around the 13th."
Yeah, people will find all kinds of excuses (concienteous objection, etc.) to not comply. This has to be absolutely obligatory for ALL US citizens, then there will be no confusion - and HUGE advantages on the battlefield, reduces friendly fire incidents dramatically they say. Anyway, be prepared for the ACLU to find LOTS of BS excuses why people should not submit, but let's separate the wheat from the chaff ONCE AND FOR ALL.
I've read it...now I'm thinking about it.
Man there are a lot of ACLU people on this thread. HOW THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO SEPARATE OURSELVES (REAL AMERICANS) FROM THE ILLEGALS AND "STUDENT" TERRORISTS? You are playing right into their hands. Don't fall for the liberal claptrap. How does a chip hurt the law-abiding AMERICAN? Answer: Not one bit. How does is hurt the evildoer? Answer: Really really bad.
Same funders of the invasive species
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576897/posts
ping
>>>How does a chip hurt the law-abiding AMERICAN?
Are you a US Citizen? Or a UN Citizen?
Get used to it.
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