Who's Watching The Watchers?

Posted on Monday, July 24 at 10:53 by drcaleb
Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is surveillance technology at its finest -- cheap, invisible, infallible, ubiquitous -- and privacy advocates abhor it. Silently, without even a bar code beep, RFID reads and records people's behaviour and inventories their possessions. Benetton was the first large retailer to find out the hard way that not everyone likes being watched. In 2003, consumer outrage forced it to recall millions of garments it had embedded with microchips. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060722.wxtags22/BNStory/ [Editor's note: This was submitted by email, as it was being tagged by our filters as 'spam'. ??? Dr C] [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on July 24, 2006]

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  1. Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:01 pm
    This is old news. Forget about consumer products, implanting chips in living people is currently all the rage. And it can probably be done without individuals knowing anything about it (dentist fillings, surgery, vaccinations, etc.).

    The mark of the beast has arrived folks!

  2. by Deacon
    Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:29 am
    Provide proof please.

    ---
    "and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

    "The Weapon" - Rush

  3. Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:02 am
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    <a href="http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/mexican-implant-correction.html">http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/mexican-implant-correction.html</a><br />
    <p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />

  4. by RPW
    Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:26 am
    <blockquote>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary."</blockquote> It seems that we are well on our way to carrying enough technology, what with your article. Though whether or not we could rub two microchips together to start a fire is somewhat problematical...........<p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
    - Justice Louis Brandeis

  5. Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:01 pm
    You don't have to rub two chips to get a fire. Just power on a Dell.<br />
    <br />
    <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550">http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550</a><p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />

  6. Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:28 pm
    <br />
    Having been instilled with the Ferengi model of civilisation* (Capitalism) is a wonderful opportunity for some enterprising individual to commission an anti-RFID device or devices as a counter move <br />
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    *Ferengi civilisation was built on the ideals of free enterprise, where all other goals were subjugated to the pursuit of profit.<br />
    <br />
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID</a><br />
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    Watching the watchers is far to passive and needs to be met with active resistance by the watched, otherwise the lawyer class will drag it through the courts and the courts are really only another carnie-game where the house controls the odds. <br />
    <p>---<br>We have met the enemy and he is us<br />
    Pogo<br />
    A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.<br />
    Plutarch

  7. by RPW
    Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:19 am
    <blockquote>Having been instilled with the Ferengi model of civilisation* (Capitalism) is a wonderful opportunity for some enterprising individual to commission an anti-RFID device or devices as a counter move </blockquote> Only a matter of time.............wonder if the government will make it an offense to do so though? After all, keeping track of citizens is only being done for the safety and security of the citizens.........so I suppose it would be an act of terrorism to devise an A-RFID...... <p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
    - Justice Louis Brandeis



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