Posted on 01/12/2007 6:55:05 PM PST by Esther Ruth
A US company has launched a chipless RFID (radio-frequency identification) Ink that can be used to track both animals and humans.
Visible or invisible Ink "Tatoos" can be applied to the skin and tracked by RFID readers positioned a few feet away.
The Company, Somark...said it had successfully tested it's Biocompatible Chipless RFID Ink product....
(Excerpt) Read more at computerweekly.com ...
Invisible ink tracking devices. Impressive.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
Who will watch the watchers?
~ Juvenal, Roman poet, first century A.D.
Gives a paranoid schizophrenic one more thing to worry about...
That said, I can see the many useful applications and the many more sinister and less ethical applications.
(Perhaps it is time to get an RFID tattoo that transmits an "F*** YOU!!!" in plain text to all scanners.)
Technical progression for the MOTB.
The mark of the beast?
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Rev/Rev013.html#17
Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Never again? Will everyone sleep for awhile through this tagging also?
Looks like it might help track soldiers and equipment.
Somark Innovations, Inc.
4041 Forest Park Ave., Saint Louis, MO 63108
http://www.somarkinnovations.com/
Somark is a technology company that is developing a proprietary ID system based on a biocompatible ink tattoo with chipless RFID functionality. When applied, the ink creates a unique ID that can be detected without line of sight. The technology will be initially leveraged to the livestock industry to help identify/track cattle and thus mitigate export trade loss from BSE (a.k.a. Mad Cow Disease) scares. Secondary target markets include laboratory animals, companion pets, and potentially prime cuts of meat.
http://www.somarkinnovations.com/markets.html
To ensure a safe food supply all livestock need a secure identification and traceback system. Consumers are demanding more information about ingredients, additives, source, and the production process of food they eat. Source verified food garners a premium, while unverified products face boycotts, embargoes, and discounts.
Somark’s technology will be initially leveraged to the livestock industry to help identify/track cattle and thus mitigate export trade loss from BSE (a.k.a. Mad Cow Disease) scares. Livestock producers, who will purchase the system, need a better and cheaper solution.
I love the text idea!
A really good way to separate legal residents from illegals, I might add.
They ALWAYS begin with a non-controversial application... one thay noone finds fault with. Having done that, they've established the principle that they have a right to do it. Then simply expand the categories.
Can you say incrementalism?
BTW - How long do you think it will take the illegals to figure out a way to forge these?
When they gather together capture them again..
Tat the untatooed ones...
Do it all over again..
Note: pretty soon the data gained would be invaluable.. You would not only know who was gathered how many but how often they gathered.. and possible many other indicators.. depending on whom was gathered.. Predators could gather this info.. day or night.. Bugging for sound and video recurring gathering spots when be very cool..
Ok Dr. Frankenstein, whatever you say.
Sex offender need to be in jail. Illegals on the other side of the USA border. Period. We don't need no freakin tatoos.
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