Posted on 02/20/2007 5:09:22 AM PST by Calpernia
It would be positively Orwellian if corporate America was using high technology to track your whereabouts without your knowledge. Welcome to "1984."
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can be thought of as a next-generation bar code. A simple RFID tag consists of a microchip and antenna, which when stimulated by a remote "reader," sends back information via radio waves. Like a bar code, an RFID tag identifies the product it is attached to for inventory or purchasing purposes; but an RFID tag can do more. For example, RFID tags can hold information related to the expiration date of a product, record whether a product has been exposed to excessive hear, or could be used to assist with product recalls. An RFID-tagged product can be tracked as it moves in commerce, providing better ways to identify and meet consumer demand for products.
"If the device remains on the item," says Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman, "it can also track the whereabouts of the individual who purchases it and I believe that's an invasion of privacy." Surely such technology is reserved for only hi-tech gizmos and the most expensive wares a store has to offer, right? Wrong? Watson Coleman says, "RFIDs are in your clothing, in your underwear, in your razor blade packages, any item that you purchase."
The purchaser of the item is usually unaware of the presence of the tag and unable to remove it. The tag can be read from a distance without the individual being aware that it is being read and if an item is purchased using a credit card or a loyalty card is used at the time of purchase it would be possible to tie the unique ID of the tagged item to the identity of the consumer.
The majority leader is sponsoring a bill would require businesses purveying items with RFID tags to post notices on their premises and labels on the products and would also require the removal or deactivation of the tag at the point of sale. 14 other states have similar legislation pending.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/index.html
Research is all there for the reading.
Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.
But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.
IBM's Hollerith punch card IBM's subsidiary, Dehomag in Berlin, Germany
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VeriChip Corporation's VeriMed(TM) Medical Solution Is Now Integrated Into the Hospital Demonstration Area of the IBM Solutions Experience Lab Located in Austin, Texas
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2005--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), a leading provider of identification and security technology, announced today that its implantable RFID healthcare system, VeriMed(TM), is now a component of the Hospital demonstration area of the IBM Solutions Experience Lab located in Austin, Texas. The IBM Solutions Experience Lab conducts approximately 260 tours annually for corporations and government agencies wishing to see demonstrations of functional, integrated hardware and software solutions for specific market sectors. The Hospital area demonstrates currently available technologies compatible with IBM healthcare solutions that provide integrated, state-of-the-art capabilities in the healthcare environment.
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About VeriChip - "The First RFID Company for People" VeriChip is a subsidiary of Applied Digital and the only company to provide both implantable and wearable RFID identification and security solutions for people, their assets, and their environments. From the world's first and only FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID microchip to the only patented active RFID tag with skin-sensing capabilities, VeriChip leads the way in next-generation RFID technologies. Today, over 4,000 installations worldwide in healthcare, security, industrial, and government markets benefit from both the protection and efficiencies provided by VeriChip systems. For more information on VeriChip, please visit www.verichipcorp.com.
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http://news.com.com/RFID+chips+used+to+track+dead+after+Katrina/2100-11390_3-5869708.html
RFID chips used to track dead after Katrina
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I want a rifid for my 1) car keys; 2)wallet; 3)cellphone; 4)TV remote; 4)slippers and especially 5)eyeglasses.
I have wasted half of my life looking for these things.
That would be a good thing if you were the one allowed to track those items.
As if the various other permutations and teensyness of RFID weren't wild enough, here comes Hitachi with its new "powder" 0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips. The new chips are 64 times smaller than the previous record holder, the 0.4mm x 0.4mm mu-chips, and nine times smaller than Hitachi's last year prototype, and yet still make room for a 128-bit ROM that can store a unique 38-digit ID number. The main application is likely to be anti-counterfeit, but since the previous mu-chips could be embedded into paper quite easily enough, we're fairly certain Hitachi is just doing this for bragging rights and potential pepper shaker mixups. Hitachi should have these on the market in two or three years.
This was an action of trespass against James Van Dyk for breaking and entering the plaintiff's close, and cutting down and carrying away his grain, grass, wood, hay, corn, &c. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for $60, and there are nine reasons offered for setting the judgment aside; but the last eight being unsupported by the record, and in no wise verified, the first reason is the only one to be considered; and this is because the declaration is wholly informal, and wants substance.
Now informality has been settled repeatedly to be no good reason for reversing the judgment, provided it is good in substance. And it contains the following charge: that 23d of July, 1817, the defendant, with force and arms, broke and entered the plaintiff's close and barn, at Bloomfield in the county of Essex, and the grain, grass, wood, hay, corn, boards, apples, and garden vegetables of the plaintiff then grown and growing, did cut down, carry off, waste, and destroy, to the plaintiff's damage one hundred dollars. Here is substance enough. Had it alleged the quantity and value of each article it would have been more formal; but the uttermost form of the book alleges quantity and value under a videlecit, and then they are not to be proved as laid, but are left open to any evidence that the plaintiff may be able to adduce at the trial. The declaration is sufficient in substance.
Let the judgment be affirmed.
Van Dyk v. Dodd 1822 WL 1193, (N.J. 1822)
I have been waiting for this archaic common law theory of civil recovery to revive.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Highest RankedJacob Schlottke @ Feb 14th 2007 10:26PM
Talk about "big brother" lol.
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Highest Rankedslowerpig81 @ Feb 14th 2007 10:27PM
holy crap! so, like , could you switch this with pepper and and track someone like that? yikes
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Lowest RankedJonathan Keim @ Feb 14th 2007 10:32PM
I really want to get in the discussion of the end times here :)
How many believe this is 666?
My take is that it isn't. 666 will probably take this form, but it won't be 666 until the antichrist comes.
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Highest Rankedtiuk @ Feb 14th 2007 11:05PM
How about we just talk about gadgets and not religion? Sounds good.
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Highest RankedDave @ Feb 14th 2007 11:21PM
Cool. We're literally going to be inhaling RFID. The future is sooo cool! Now the government will know exactly where my lungs are!
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Highest RankedLeif @ Feb 14th 2007 11:24PM
Well, everybody get your shoplifting in while you still can.
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Lowest RankedKurtis @ Feb 14th 2007 11:35PM
Get a life.
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Lowest RankedJonathan Keim @ Feb 14th 2007 11:41PM
Cool with me, but this technolegy still begs to ask the question.
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NeutralCam @ Feb 14th 2007 11:46PM
How many believe we are biological computers evolved from sort of monkey and the 666 nonsense is just stuff we invented when we were gibbering with fear in caves?
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Highest RankedTim UF @ Feb 14th 2007 11:49PM
Are these going to require antenna leads? i think its hard to believe the leads are onboard with the chip... unless its working at an insane frequency...
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Low Rankedriggs @ Feb 14th 2007 11:51PM
about as many people who think that youre smart :D
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Highest Rankedriggs @ Feb 14th 2007 11:51PM
cool, now ill get my salt and coder shakers.
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Highest Rankedanonymous @ Feb 15th 2007 12:07AM
I don't think this would be very useful at all for tracking people unless there was a receiver a millimeter away... now paper and other stuff I can see an application
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Highest RankedPaul @ Feb 15th 2007 1:20AM
Does this have any medical implications?
It is small enough to be mistaken for pepper and presumably fairly safe to consume.
Would it be possible to have someone consume some, mixed with water perhaps, in order to track the digestive system, instead of barium solution and xrays?
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Highest Rankedasher @ Feb 15th 2007 1:32AM
I for one welcome... oh screw it, this is just damn unnerving.
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Highly RankedIOTA @ Feb 15th 2007 2:06AM
Ahh, where to begin.
Hitachi has had these ICs out for some time (like 2+ yrs).
It is called the Mu chip and it operates at 2.4GHz via a proprietary protocol.
While there is an antenna, it is etched into the silicon which has severe effects on operating range; it is certainly on the order of mm.
And finally, to address any discussions of eating these ICs....IT IS SILICON!! Have you ever heard about the health effects of even working in a fab?
Try chipping a piece of silicon from a chip on an old motherboard and let us know how that goes.
Good luck
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Neutralwww_rpgSE_com @ Feb 15th 2007 2:18AM
why does the military not use RFID yet for all of its equipment and personnel? How far away can you track these from?
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NeutralLTM @ Feb 15th 2007 2:40AM
Paint this RFID white, throw it like confetti or rice over the bride and groom after the wedding, track them on your rfid tracking system to the location of their honeymoon suite, get the binoculars out and gain brownie points and respect from all the other pervs on the planet for the strangest use of technology to get your rocks off!
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Highest RankedBen @ Feb 15th 2007 2:51AM
This wouldn't be able to replace the role of barium. As a radio-opaque liquid, a barium meal (or enema) is used to give an outline of the inside of the digestive tract to diagnose structural and motility problems. There may be other medical uses but if the range is in mm, as IOTA says, they're hard to imagine.
As to the dangers of silicon, it's very bad to inhale as a powder but not too bad to eat. Elemental silicon is quite inert.
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Neutrallittlepear_com @ Feb 15th 2007 2:52AM
I don't think the bride and groom would care for you tracking them from mm away on their wedding night. Say, isn't it silicone that's purported to be toxic? I thought silica was just white sand. Hey maybe I should head out to the beach and have some dude kick sand in my face. My head could use some extra memory.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/hitachis-rfid-powder-freaks-us-the-heck-out
If you bring a case to court, it would be revived.
So should government be expected to limit itself or to creak into motion to limit intrusions into personal liberty? See post 10 - it should be up to lawyers and the courts.
Oops - sorry. Lawyers are no damn good and we need tort reform.
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I couldn't help but wonder if this is what the particles were in the Snack Cake recall:
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/mckee02_07.html
McKee Foods Corporation Voluntarily Recalls Little Debbie® Nutty Bars in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia
Excerpt:
February 5, 2007 McKee Foods of Collegedale, TN., is recalling certain Little Debbie® Nutty Bars in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia because an ingredient may contain small particles of metal. These products were distributed to retailers and in vending machines on Thursday, Feb. 1 and Friday, Feb. 2.
Be scared! Be Very scared!
Lol!
I would be more worried about the government. Especially if the liberals grab power.
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