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Micro-chipping humans no longer the stuff of science fiction novels
"Invisible tracking brings to mind science-fiction- inspired uses, or even abuses, such as unknowingly getting sprinkled with smart-tag powder for Big Brother-like monitoring,” Associated Press said. The prediction that microchips will be able to interface with nerves and implanted in the brain in the next 30 years was recently put forth by a UK government think tank. The microchips predicted would be able to give sensory input, allow a sort of mind-to-mind communication (like an implanted cell phone) and allow direct to the brain marketing. This Orwellian prediction opens the door for direct mind control in true 1984 fashion.
"Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) are finding their way into and onto humans in many ways. There are several ways government and commercial entities are looking to profit through impressive ID and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies. Verichip Corp. successfully marketed “Hugs” Infant Protection System to hospitals in 2005. Since then, infants at many major hospitals receive ankle bracelets something like what many people on probation are currently required to use.
The ankle bracelets were marketed as a remedy for hospital infant abduction. When a child is removed from the infant care area of the hospital, an alarm sounds. About 230 infants are abducted every year from U.S. hospitals. The Hugs system saved one child in 2005. This may be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety reasons.” Some unverified Internet sources report that U.S. and European governments have plans to implant RFIDs in every newborn instead of using ankle bracelets.
A Rhode Island school plans to electronically track the movements of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID). Microchips will be attached to the students’ backpacks next year. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other civil liberties groups say the RFID chips are an invasion of privacy. “Encouraging the placement of RFIDs on young children, even in this limited and questionable context, can only have the unintended effect of acclimating them to being monitored by the government in other contexts and wherever they go, as if it were perfectly normal and appropriate,” the ACLU said.
The RFID chips will be accessed via satellites through tiny GPS systems within the chips. The school will be able to follow the children anywhere. It is likely, though, that young people will just choose to leave their backpacks at school when they do not want to be followed. School officials may then contend for further invasion of privacy, and require RFIDs to be worn on clothing, or possibly injected.
In 2007, about 200 Alzheimer’s patients were implanted with non-GPS RFIDs in a market test done by Verichip. The devices held medical information that could be scanned with a special reader. Many more Alzheimer’s patients and people suffering with dementia have been implanted since the 2007 pilot program. Soon after the market testing by Verichip, sample RFIDs were handed out at the Alzheimer’s Community Care 2007 Educational Conference. In a 2007 Fox News report Verichip offered free RFID tagging for any interested party that wanted to tag an elderly parent."
By Mike Finch "Invisible tracking brings to mind science-fiction- inspired uses, or even abuses, such as unknowingly getting sprinkled with smart-ta... more -
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London's Oyster Card system grinds to a halt
"There was a technical problem with the Oyster card computer system yesterday morning, Saturday 12 July, until around 9.30am. As a result card readers across the TfL network were not accepting Oyster cards for parts of the day yesterday."
"A number of cards used on London Underground before 9.30am yesterday may not be working as a result of yesterday's technical problem. Customers who topped up their cards at Oyster Ticket Stops during the day may also have been affected. Customers whose cards are not working are advised to go to their nearest London Underground ticket office where they will be able to exchange their card for a replacement."` "There was a technical problem with the Oyster card computer system yesterday morning, Saturday 12 July, until around 9.30am. As a res... more -
U.K. to begin microchipping prisoners
The British government is developing a plan to track current and former prisoners by means of microchips implanted under the skin, drawing intense criticism from probation officers and civil rights groups.
As a way to reduce prison crowding, many British prisoners are currently released under electronic monitoring, carried out by means of an ankle bracelet that transmits signals like those used by mobile phones.
Now the Ministry of Justice is exploring the possibility of injecting prisoners in the back of the arm with a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that contains information about their name, address and criminal record. Such chips, which contain a built-in antenna, could be scanned by special readers. The implantation of RFID chips in luggage, pets and livestock has become increasingly popular in recent years.
In addition to monitoring incarcerated prisoners, the ministry hopes to use the chips on those who are on probation or other conditional release. By including a satellite uplink system in the chip, police would be able to use global positioning system (GPS) technology to track subjects' exact locations at all times. According to advocates of such a measure, this could help keep sex offenders away from "forbidden" zones like schools.
Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, blasted the measure as degrading to the people chipped and of no benefit to probation officers.
"Knowing where offenders like pedophiles are does not mean you know what they are doing," Fletcher said. "Treating people like pieces of meat does not seem to represent an improvement in the system to me."
Shami Chakrabarti of the civil rights group Liberty had even stronger words:
"If the Home Office doesn't understand why implanting a chip in someone is worse than an ankle bracelet, they don't need a human-rights lawyer; they need a common-sense bypass."
by: David Gutierrez
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U.S. school district to begin microchipping students
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.
Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus’s current location as provided by the GPS device.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has criticized the plan as an invasion of children’s privacy and a potential risk to their safety.
"There’s absolutely no need to be tagging children," said Stephen Brown, executive director of the ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter. According to Brown, the school district should already know where its students are.
"[This program is] a solution in search of a problem," Brown said.
The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parents to monitor their children’s school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children’s attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger.
Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but "it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves." He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students’ private information and monitor their movements.
Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.
It appears the British Government has their own form of indoctrination planned for it's kids 5 and under. - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/educati...
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Real 'snail mail' delivered by snails
Don't you love it when figurative language is taken literally? A group of artists from Bournemouth University in the UK, have created a project called Real Snail Mail. They have fitted RFID chips onto gastropods, that allows them to receive emails. Then the snails must cross a tank to deliver the messages. Instead of near instantaneous speed, these messages take on average 1.96 days. Don't you love it when figurative language is taken literally? A group of artists from Bournemouth University in the UK, have created ... more
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Rhode Island School District to Begin Microchipping Students
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (... more
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UK passport RFID chips cracked
UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With £174 worth of sniffer hardware, attackers can read all the personal information off of any of the three million new UK passports in circulation — and if combined with demonstrated hacks for reading RFIDs at a distance, this could happen from across the room, or even farther. You can then clone the RFID and stick it in another passport (surprise! your identity is now owned by a terrorist!).
(Source: BoingBoing)
Brilliant! And so the ‘War On Terror’ rolls blindly on, over the bodies of 655,000 Iraqi dead and the rights and safety of Britons. Blair’s shiny new RFID passport has already been cracked.
If you read the Guardian article linked from BoingBoing, the Home Office plays down the dangers. But what they can’t deny is that information can now be sucked straight off your passport, at a distance, without you even knowing it. Listen to this genius:
“This doesn’t matter,” says a Home Office spokesman. “By the time you have accessed the information on the chip, you have already seen it on the passport. What use would my biometric image be to you? And even if you had the information, you would still have to counterfeit the new passport - and it has lots of new security features. If you were a criminal, you might as well just steal a passport.”
(Source: The Guardian)
Hello? Are you awake? The difference is that you would know if your passport had been nicked! With RFID data theft, you’re completely unaware of any risk.
More than that: if it “doesn’t matter” that the data is stolen, why bother putting it on an RFID in the first place? Just to waste millions of our taxes?
I am so angry right now. Just like our illegal invasion of Iraq, the UK government is now herding us all in the wrong direction and won’t brook any logical criticism. We’re being forced to pay for expensive new passports which are less secure than the old ones!
Is there any end to this government’s stupidity and lunatic dis-regard for our safety? UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With £174 worth of sniffer hardwa... more -
I biglietti per le Olimpiadi riporteranno passaporto e indirizzo su chip RFID
Gli spettatori delle prossime Olimpiadi di Pechino troveranno una sorpresa nei loro biglietti: le informazioni sul loro passaporto, indirizzo e email. Dettagli che verranno inseriti in un chip RFID presente su ogni biglietto. Gli spettatori delle prossime Olimpiadi di Pechino troveranno una sorpresa nei loro biglietti: le informazioni sul loro passaporto, in... more
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Missouri law will fine employers for requiring microchip implants
Your bosses can still make you work weekends and give you projects you loathe. But Missouri lawmakers have voted to make it a crime if they order that a microchip be implanted in your arm.
Forcing someone to get a microchip implantis already barred in California, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Legislation awaiting Gov. Matt Blunt’s signature would make it a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1,000 for a boss who demands that a worker get an implant.
Katherine Albrecht, an expert in consumer privacy and radio frequency identification, acknowledges that microchip implants might sound like “black helicopters and tin foil hats.”
But Albrecht, the founder of AntiChips.com, and other critics argue there are tangible medical, privacy and religious worries driving attempts to pass laws banning forced implants.
“The people who oppose it don’t understand how real the threat is, and the people who are gung-ho don’t understand its power,” Albrecht said.
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Practical tips for destroying RFID
"In this Instructable I will describe different ways to block or kill RFID tags. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. If you do not know about this technology yet, you should definitely start familiarizing yourself with it, because the number of different devices that utilize these types of tags is growing exponentially.
RFID chips are very similar to barcodes in the sense that a certain amount of data is contained within them, and then transmitted to a reading device which then processes and utilizes the information. The major difference is that barcodes have to be physically visible to the reading device, which is usually only able to scan them at a distance of a 12 inches or less. RFID tags, on the other hand, do not have to be visible to the reading device. They can be scanned through clothes, wallets, and even cars. The distance from which they can be read is also much greater than that of a barcode. At DEFCON an RFID tag was scanned at a distance of 69 feet, and that was back in 2005, the possible reading distance now is probably much greater than that. ..... "
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"In this Instructable I will describe different ways to block or kill RFID tags. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. If yo... more -
Government of Nunavut plan to tag 300 bears angers hunters
Inuit hunters in Nunavut, an autonomous region in northern Canada, are unhappy with the Government of Nunavut's plan to tranquilize 300 polar bears in the Foxe Basin and clip them with radio-frequency ear tags fitted with an RFID. The plan is part of a study to track polar bear movements. Hunters oppose the plan because of a Health Canada guideline that bans the consumption of meat within a year from an animal that has tranquilized.
Further, the drug itself is subject to controversy. GN wildlife workers will tranquilize the bears with Zoletil, a powerful drug cocktail composed of teletamine -- a PCP-like anaesthetic -- and a tranquilizer similar to valium. The article mentions that although Zoletil is used widely by veterinarians and wildlife researchers working with animals, occasionally the drug finds its way into the hands of substance abusers. One former GN polar bear researcher was caught injecting Zoletil in 2000. The plan has provoked opposition from Kivalliq Wildlife Board, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., and hunters in affected communities.
The Foxe Basin is a vast area that extends to Hudson Bay, Rankin Inlet, and Nunavik to the east. Inuit hunters in Nunavut, an autonomous region in northern Canada, are unhappy with the Government of Nunavut's plan to tranquilize 30... more -
RFID Credit Cards Ridiculously Hackable
8 bucks can yield credit card information you don't want other folks getting.
Maybe I selectively remember things, but when people started talking about contactless payment, I remember saying, "Uh oh!" 8 bucks can yield credit card information you don't want other folks getting. ... more -
Oyster card security cracked
There's a whole bunch of tech-talk I don't understand, but hackers can now easily hack to your Oyster card and clone it - billions of cards worldwide use the same security system, office keys, travel cards, etc.
Another reason not to get that combined Oyster-debit-credit card. Or to put more than a tenner on your Oyster at a time. There's a whole bunch of tech-talk I don't understand, but hackers can now easily hack to your Oyster card and clone it - billions of... more -
UK authorities may implant prisoners with RFID tags
im pretty sure this would completely trample basic civil liberties / human rights...and violate a number of international laws, and probably cause a few prison riots, and just seems like a reeeeally bad idea. im pretty sure this would completely trample basic civil liberties / human rights...and violate a number of international laws, and pr... more
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Video ads planned for grocery carts
The system uses radio-frequency identification to sense where the shopper's cart is in the store. The RFID data can help ShopRite and food makers understand shopping patterns, and the technology can also be used to send certain advertisements to people at specific points in the store.
I was just complaining that I don't get to see enough ads these days. The system uses radio-frequency identification to sense where the shopper's cart is in the store. The RFID data can help ShopRite and... more -
National ID: States vs. Feds
New rules on licenses pit states against federal government
"Residents of at least 17 states are suddenly stuck in the middle of a fight between the Bush administration and state governments over post-September 11 security rules for driver's licenses -- a dispute that, by May, could leave millions of people unable to use their licenses to board planes or enter federal buildings."
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Supreme Court to Hear Voter Id Case
The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year over whether Indiana's law requiring a photo id disenfranchises low income and minority voters.
Indiana's law, enacted in 2005, is the strictest in the nation, and is intended to prevent voter fraud, and the potential disenfranchisement the possibility of fraud might create. There are no known prosecutions of voter impersonation in Indiana.
Democratic and civil rights groups argue that most people who don't have photo ids are low income and minority, which means the law creates *real* (not potential) disenfranchisement, primarily of groups expected to vote democratic. Justices in the lower courts have ruled entirely on partisan lines, with one exception. And according to a George Washington University law professor, ?the number of legitimate voters who would fail to bring photo identification to the polls is several times higher than the number of fraudulent voters.?
The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year over whether Indiana's law requiring a photo id disenfranchises low income and m... more -
Why States are Resisting U.S. on Plan for REAL ID
"The federal government's efforts to create a standardized, secure driver's license that would also serve as a national ID card have hit some significant stumbling blocks.
Chief among them: Eight states have voted in the past year not to participate in the program. Nine others are on the record opposing the proposal. In total, legislation opposing the plan has been introduced in 38 states."
Who thinks the concept of REAL ID is a bad one? Personally, depending on what information is stored on it and how such information can be used, I think it could be really useful. I remember people looking at my old Michigan driver's license and being like: what is this piece of crap, if u're going to make a fake ID make it look respectable at least. And it was the real thing! "The federal government's efforts to create a standardized, secure driver's license that would also serve as a national ID card have h... more -
REAL ID Act to identify anything that moves
By 2014, anyone seeking to simply enter a federal building would have to present a REAL ID-compliant driver's license.
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