Stop Spy Chips !

VeriChip Hacked !

2006-01-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

"I wouldn't buy toilet paper that required
that kind of a disclaimer ... " -- Liz McIntyre

From
CASPIAN Newsletter January 27, 2006
VERICHIP RFID IMPLANT HACKED!

"If you look at the VeriChip purely from
the business angle, it's a ridiculously flawed
product," says McIntyre. She notes that
security researcher Jonathan Westhues
has shown how easy it is to clone
a VeriChip implanted in a person's arm
and program a new chip with the same number.

Westhues, known for his prior work cloning
RFID-based proximity cards, has posted his
VeriChip cloning demo online at
http://cq.cx/verichip.pl.

The VeriChip "is not good for anything,"
says Westhues, has absolutely no security
and "solves a number of different
non-problems badly."

VeriChip Corp has refused to answer
these questions.

Read the entire News Release

Subscribe to CASPIAN Newsletter

Get The Book
Spychips: How Major Corporations
and Government
Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID
http://www.spychips.com/

Kids As Inventory

2005-11-28T16:28:00.000-08:00

"750 cameras currently monitoring activity 24 hours a day with the addition of over 300 cameras planned"
"Automated Fingerprinting Identification"
"Random metal detector screening is conducted at least twice weekly"
"GPS tracking of students"
"Students use RFID equipped photo ID cards"
Where is this automated kinder-warehouse?
Houston Texas
Watch The Video

Is this school being bribed by feds to Spy Chip, Track, Trace
and Taser Kids?

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RFID Nineteen Eighty-Four Blog

2005-10-30T01:48:00.000-08:00

A new blog with a new view
Katherine Albrecht,
C0-Author of, "Spychips:"
makes personal observations
and comments on the
Orwellian Apparat
now being imposed
on all of us. [RFID 1984]

WAL-MART SPY CHIP

2005-10-13T21:20:00.000-07:00

Spy Chip

RFID Tracker Spy Chip found hidden
in the packaging of a Nokia cell phone
purchased at Wal-Mart
in Springfield Missouri

Have You Taken A Spy Chip
Home With You ?

PROTEST WAL-MART !

2005-10-10T22:05:00.000-07:00

Picket The Wal-Mart Spys
Dallas Texas
Saturday October 15

"RFID poses serious risks to privacy and civil liberties. Wal-Mart is the 800-lb gorilla of the retail industry, and the key force driving the use of RFID today"

"Let's send a clear message to Wal-Mart: Don't mess with Texas. We will not tolerate spychipped products."
Click for [DETAILS]
Email protest@spychips.com

pic by FoeBud

Spychips The Book Now Available

2005-10-10T09:45:00.000-07:00

The book, "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID"
by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre
Is now availble at your book store

"Albrecht and McIntyre make a staggering accusation in Spychips: that
Philips, Procter and Gamble, Gillette, NCR and IBM are conspiring with each other and the federal government to follow individual consumers everywhere, using embedded radio tags planted in their clothing and belongings.

The businesses, who form the center of the RFID industry, hope to wirelessly monitor the contents of consumers' refrigerators, medicine cabinets, basement workbenches -- even their garbage pails, the book claims."
-- Mark Baard Wired News [MORE]

Read More Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre At http://www.spychips.com/

Say NO 2 ID

2005-09-21T06:56:00.000-07:00

Say NO to ID
Say YES to privacy and real security

See The Video http://eclectech.co.uk/swizz.php

Join The Refuseniks http://www.no2id.net/

RFID: Tracking Your Behaviour

2005-08-26T10:07:00.000-07:00

Behaviour tracking - coming to a store near you

The Australian Consumers’ Association is calling for privacy safeguards in the wake of the adoption of invisible bar code technology.

Senior Policy Officer Information Technology and Communications Charles Britton said it was likely the tags, called Radio Frequency Identification Tags, would eventually become cheap enough to be embedded in practically every product a consumer might purchase.
“Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging is already all around us, for example, when you open doors by waving the entry cards at a reader,” he said.
[...]

“Universal retail tagging could create a world of behaviour tracking, privacy invasion and unauthorised acquisition of consumer information by all manner of people. Companies deploying RFID must be extremely mindful of privacy issues and the need for consumer control, “ he said.
[...]

Mr Britton said many of the data issues should be covered in the Privacy Act and the Privacy Commissioner needed to be alert. Other issues are about surveillance and should be covered by Federal surveillance legislation, or at least through a uniform State approach.
[MORE]

Tracking Your Shopping Patterns

2005-08-26T07:54:00.000-07:00

Tag Team: Tracking the Patterns of Supermarket Shoppers

To the untrained eye, the data presentation looks remarkably like an Etch-a-Sketch drawing, little more than a child's randomly drawn zigzag pattern on a favorite toy.
But to Wharton marketing professor Peter S. Fader, those seemingly random lines represent a new dataset showing the paths taken by individual shoppers in an actual grocery store. The data -- charted for the first time by radio frequency identification (RFID) tags located on consumers' shopping carts -- has the potential to change the way retailers in general think about customers and their shopping patterns.

To gather the data eventually used in the Wharton research, PathTracker RFID tags were placed on the bottom of every grocery cart in a supermarket in the western U.S. According to Sorensen, these tags emit a signal every five seconds that is received by receptors installed at various locations throughout the store. Once collected, the signals are used to chart the position of the grocery cart and record its route through the entire store. This data is translated into the computerized, Etch-a-Sketch-like drawings of shopping cart paths that Sorensen presented several years ago to Fader.

More:

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1208.cfm

Tracking Gambling Behaviour with RFID

2005-08-26T06:21:00.000-07:00

Casinos Bet Big on RFID

By Rebecca Jarvis, March 23, 2005

Radio-Frequency identification technology is headed to Las Vegas, and it may just hit the jackpot. Casino chips embedded with RFID tags are being tested at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and will be on full display this month at the new $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino. The chips -- each of which will ultimately be given a unique player code to track behavior and wring more revenue out of high rollers -- could be a $100 million business by 2010.
Two Vegas-based companies own the casino-RFID game: Progressive Gaming International and Shuffle Master. Progressive's TableLink, which reads RFID chips using table-embedded antennas and records the wagers on a dealer's PC, is the system of choice at the two casinos.

Progressive and Shuffle Master have also developed optical card shoes, which hold decks and scan cards as they're dealt; Shuffle Master's Intelligent Shoe is already getting rave reviews in Australia and Asia. "With the chips, we're just scratching the surface," says David Lopez, vice president for product management at Shuffle Master. He says casinos will eventually be able to follow a chip's every move, including when it leaves the premises.

More:

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1039015,00.html

To Find A Fiberglass Moose

2005-08-25T15:23:00.000-07:00

To find a fiberglass moose these eduwonks
would take 120,00 fedbux and SPY on students

Unblinking eyes may watch school
By Chris Parker Staff Writer
BENNINGTON -- Police Chief Richard B. Gauthier and local school leaders have applied for a $120,000 grant to bring surveillance cameras to Mount Anthony Union High School.
[...]
"...said Adams. "It gives everyone peace of mind. There's no invasion of privacy."
[...]
?There are already plans to upgrade a cafeteria camera at the middle school and add an external camera on campus to prevent the kind of vandalism that occurred earlier this year when an unknown person or persons stole a fiberglass moose from school grounds."
[...]
"High school Principal Sue Maguire and Wesley L. Knapp, superintendent of the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday."
Bennington Banner

Get A Spy Doll For Your Kid?

2005-08-25T13:32:00.000-07:00

"Judy Shackelford, who has been in the toy industry for more than 40 years, has seen a lot of dolls. But none, she says, like her latest creation, a marvel of digital technologies, including speech-recognition and memory chips, radio frequency tags and scanners, and facial robotics. She and her team have christened it Amazing Amanda."

"Radio frequency tags in Amanda's accessories - including toy food, potty and clothing - wirelessly inform the doll of what it is interacting with. For instance, if the doll asks for a spoon of peas and it is given its plastic cookie, it will gently admonish its caregiver, telling her that a cookie is not peas."

"Ms. Shackelford said the chip's multidialect capacities are important for her doll, which is being manufactured in China to be sold to English-speaking markets around the world. The chip, explained Adam Anderson, one of the lead project managers, carries additional dialect references gleaned from children's voices recorded in England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand."

"And by asking children to repeat words like "pizza," the doll can lock in specific dialects, "remember" and respond accordingly, Mr. Anderson said."

"The idea that a child can be led through play, that it can be done intuitively, is so important to me," she said, adding that her doll's sophisticated technologies must be invisible."

"This doll," Ms. Shackelford said, "acts like she loves you."

More, if you can stomach it [HERE]

Now Your Grocer Wants Your DNA

2005-08-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

Lund, PrairieStone to Offer Genetic Assessments

EDINA, Minn. (August 23, 2005) -
Lund Food Holdings here, in addition
to PrairieStone Pharmacies, Minneapolis,
which operates in its stores and in which it
has a partial ownership, will provide customers
with Cellf Genetic Assessments from
Sciona, Boulder, Colo.

The assessments provide consumers with
personalized health and nutrition recommendations
based on their diet, lifestyle and unique genetic
profile.

Individuals collect a sample of their DNA
using a cheek swab and then complete a diet
and lifestyle questionnaire at home.
They then receive a personalized and
confidential nutrition and health assessment
based on their genetic profile to review with
a pharmacist or other qualified
practitioner in the pharmacy. [MORE]

Ozzys To Spy On Cows Too

2005-08-24T21:22:00.000-07:00

Aussie famers desperate to leave their cattle stations and nip the couple of hundred kilometres to the nearest net-enabled boozer to down a few cold ones might soon benefit from an internet remote-monitoring system which allows absent Outbackers to keep an eye on things back at the ranch. [MORE]

Government May Soon Track You by Your License Plate

2005-08-23T10:00:00.000-07:00

Government May Soon Track You by Your License Plate

By Gene J. KoprowskiUPI 08/21/05 5:00 AM PT
The reason for the concern in the legal and privacy-rights communities is that e-plates may expand the ability of police to track individuals by the movement of their vehicles. A single RFID reader can identify dozens of vehicles fitted with e-plates moving at any speed at a distance of about 100 yards.

A controversial plan to embed radio frequency identification chips in license plates in the United Kingdom also may be coming to the United States, experts told UPI's Wireless World.

[Continued]

Swallowing RFID's

2005-08-23T09:45:00.000-07:00

Vikings Consider Giving Players Heat-Sensing Pills

(AP) Eden Prairie, Minn.

Four years after Vikings offensive lineman Korey Stringer died of heatstroke, the team is exploring the use of a "radio pill" [RFID] that would allow trainers to monitor players' body temperatures while they practice. "We've been discussing it for months," Vikings trainer Chuck Barta said. "We've been looking at different information. We're looking to see if we'll use it this year. The system was developed by Palmetto, Fla.-based HQ Inc., and already is used by the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars. "It's been a good measuring tool for us to help prevent heat illness," Jaguars head trainer Mike Ryan said. "Any time you're in Florida in the summer, it's always a concern."

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_200212745.html

The system is already in use by the Eagles and the Jaguars.

Holy Cow !

2005-08-13T04:32:00.000-07:00

The Delhi authorities will RFID chip stray cows in an attempt to tackle the menace of stray cow fraud, the BBC reports.

The streets of the Indian capital are absolutely chokka with wandering sacred bovines - up to 40,000 of the blighters - and they pose such a risk to traffic that the Delhi High Court recently ruled that the powers that be had to offer a $45 reward for every stray brought in for later disposal to a new owner.

Naturally, there's a temptation for the new owner to then bring the cow back in and claim another quick $45, but the $11 chip put in the animal's stomach on the occasion of its first capture will nip this scam in the bud.

[Delhi To RFID Chip Cows]

Pizza Polizei ... The Movie

2005-08-12T01:23:00.000-07:00

Since the inception of the Bush T.I.P.S. (Turn In Parents, Siblings)
program that made every service person that comes to
your house a Government Spy, the Pizza retailers have
taken to ID and Data Theft with relish.

These Pizza Polizei have added a topping of RFID
[Waiter? Is That A Spy In My Pizza?]

"The first time your baby sitter orders pizza, that pizza delivery company has your phone number, address and name, and they sell it," he added. "They don't have to tell you about it, either
[Hungering For Profits, Pizza Peddlers Prostitute To Prosecutors]

In Springfield Missouri Dominos Demands Drivers License from the Elderly on Delivery.
If Grandmother cannot produce one, Dominos will gleefully accept her Social Security number.

[Now Comes The Movie... Pizza Polizei Reloaded]

Drugstore Cowboys Rustle Data Doggies

2005-08-01T09:09:00.000-07:00

Drugstore Cowboys Rustle Data Doggies
from the old Winn-Dixie spread

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (August 1, 2005) - A federal bankruptcy judge Thursday approved the $16.5 million sale of 139 of Winn-Dixie pharmacy's inventories and their records as part of the closing of more than 300 Winn-Dixie stores, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Winn-Dixie plans to eliminate 326 of its stores and under law had to sell the records of its pharmacy patients to other pharmacies. CVS Corp., Woonsocket, R.I., paid $6.4 million for the inventories and records of 64 Winn-Dixie pharmacies...
More [HERE]

Do you know which rustlers have your medical records?
See also this previous post [HERE]

VetZine's Blog ConcateNation

2005-07-25T01:14:00.000-07:00

For More Posts On The Globalist New World Order
And To Subscribe To VetZine
For Daily Dispatches From The Trenches
Click [HERE]

Flush Police

2005-07-17T12:14:00.000-07:00

Did You Forget To Flush?
There Is A Flush Quota You Know!

Big Brother and the water company would
help stop leaks
By Brock Parker/ Journal Staff
Thursday, July 14, 2005

Will Big Brother be your next meter reader?
The new water meters the city hopes to
install across the city this year will not
only allow meter readers to see how much
water you are using, they will also allow
them to see when you are using it.

"We could actually alert the customers
that we noticed you are using a lot of water
at night," said city Water Superintendent
Barbara Stevens. "[We could ask them] is
something leaking?"
More Click [HERE]

Get Naki For The Nice Policemans Honey

2005-07-14T05:09:00.000-07:00

Tony Blair Wants A Peek At Yer Naughty Bits Luv

Personal Tech
July 08, 2005

Body scan machines to be used on Tube passengers
By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent
TUBE passengers are to have their bodies scanned
by machines that see through clothing in an attempt
to prevent further terrorist attacks.
The millimetre wave imagers will be used to carry
out random checks as people enter stations after
services resume today
More Click [HERE]

Gov Spies Go Dumpster Diving With RFID

2005-07-14T03:03:00.000-07:00

George Bush appointed your trash man as spy
under his TIPS program (TIPS, Turn In Parents, Siblings)
Here, Bush's poodle, Tony Blair arms trash spies with
spy chips
---------
London residents whose wheely bins are operated
by Croydon Borough Council will soon need to take
drastic action to ensure their privacy isn’t compromised.

Croydon Borough Council will from this April be inserting
tiny Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) microchips
into every resident’s wheely bin. These chips, which
communicate with a reader device attached to the
refuse vehicle, will allow the Council to glean all types
of information about a household.
-----------

notags offers solution to London Council’s ‘spychip’
initiative - tinfoil

More from No Tags Click [HERE]

Intel Spy Chip Inside

2005-07-14T02:27:00.000-07:00

Intel wants to know what you are doing.

The Guide researchers are trying to create systems that
understand and interpret daily activities through
auto-identification and statistics.
To do this, they use sensor networking, RFID,
statistical programming through data-mining,
and probabilistic inferencing.
Essentially, they configure machines to guess
what a person is doing based on how he interacts
with objects around him.
More Click [HERE]

Uncle Sugar To Spy On Students

2005-07-06T13:37:00.000-07:00

Federal "barcode" could monitor college students
By Blythe Lawrence
July 06, 2005

"Big brother" is watching you, and it knows your name,
your Social Security number and whether
you passed econ last quarter.

Or at least it might, if the federal government decides to implement
a proposal that would allow it to more closely monitor
students' progress through college.

The plan would make it mandatory for colleges and universities
to provide more detailed information about its students and
would compile information in an immense database
that would be updated every few months.
More... Click [HERE]

Tracking Those Accused

2005-07-06T12:54:00.000-07:00

Are you "Pre-Criminal'?
You have committed no crime but you might?
You might be accused of commiting a crime?
Get your ankle chain.

Posted on Mon, Jul. 04, 2005
Judges use ankle bracelets to check sobriety
Associated Press

MILWAUKEE - Some Wisconsin judges are making people accused
of alcohol-related offenses wear special ankle bracelets to track
whether they are drinking.

The bracelet's maker, Alcohol Monitoring System of Colorado,
believes the device can replace random breath tests.

A couple of beers can trigger the bracelet, which measures
alcohol consumption through skin perspiration, according
to the device's maker. The bracelet takes a reading and
sends the information via wireless modem to a monitoring center.
More Click [HERE]

FedEx Rat Fink Express

2005-07-04T10:24:00.000-07:00

"FedEx has voluntarily become a government snitch by turning over to our government names, addresses, credit card information and lists of when and where FedEx customers send and receive packages. This under the guise of fighting terrorism. Now FedEx has gone a step far, too far. They have granted US Customs inspectors access to the company’s database of international shipments, including names and addresses of shippers, package origin and destination, credit card information and payment details (names of banks), all things the US government is not entitled to outside a criminal investigation. We than assume the FBI, CIA, DEA, IRS and state and local police get some of the information......"
From the International Forecaster Click [HERE]

Drugstore Cowboys Roundup Data Doggies

2005-06-22T04:59:00.000-07:00

It has been public knowledge for sometime
that the friendly neighborhood Pharmacist
is a HIPAAcrit spying and selling customer
information. Now it is learned that the off the
shelf purchaces at the drugstore are contributing
to the bootle.

"CVS is collecting massive amounts of information on people through its
ExtraCare card, and this program was apparently created as a way to
justify their enormous databases to consumers,"

"Use your CVS ExtraCare card to buy items like condoms, incontinence
pants or an enema kit and coworkers, family members and
possibly even your mechanic could know."

Says Katherine Albrecht of CASPIAN in this press release
Click [HERE]

Round Em Up! Head Em Out! Rawhide!

Bosch Spy Tools

2005-06-16T17:57:00.000-07:00

"I cut it and cut it and it's still too short"
Power Tools

"[Robert Bosch Tool Corp]'s Digital Power Tools division is tagging 66 tools--things like circular and reciprocator saws and hammer drills--that are typically sold to businesses for construction work. The RFID-tagged tools are part of a new anti-theft service from Bosch called Safe & Sound.
http://www.rfidnews.org/weblog/2005/06/14/power-tools/

Waiter? Is That A Spy In My Pizza?

2005-06-16T05:22:00.000-07:00

RFID to make pizza-buying faster, easier
07 Jun 2005

TORONTO Hoping to increase the number of small-ticket
transactions (such as for single slices), Pizza Pizza is partnering
with Dexit to provide RFID payment to customers in Greater Toronto.

According to a news release, 160 of approximately 500 Pizza Pizza
outlets will offer the service, which enables consumers to pay for
low-cost items quickly and conveniently with the tap of an RFID
(radio frequency identification) tag linked to a pre-paid account.
More Click [HERE]

Spying On Baby

2005-06-16T03:42:00.000-07:00

RFID From the cradle to the grave

New-born babies are having electronic tags applied to their ankles in the first hour of life.....

"She has my name on a tag on one leg and her name and the electronic tag on the other. You don't really notice it. You can change their nappy just the same."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1507497,00.html

TEXTAG

2005-05-30T04:54:00.000-07:00

Dark Future

Germany : Smart Textiles, where future is promising!
24th May 2005

Avantex 2005 once more turns the spotlight on the current potential of the European textile industry. It features products from around 40 exhibitors that not only underline the increasing importance of ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’ textiles, but also emphasise how competitiveness can only be guaranteed through the interdisciplinary partnership between science and industry. The focus is on the functionalisation of fibres, filaments and textiles, as well as their combination with micro-system technology. Both contribute in large measure to product optimisation in terms of work-wear and protective clothing.
...
Data transfer
The next generation of ‘smart’ textiles will be ever more pliable and, as a result, both more comfortable and resilient. The reason is elastic, electrical connections, such as those developed by W. Zimmermann GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) for example. The construction is based on an elastic core, which, just like the thin metal wires, is covered by a textile sheath.

Now there is also the possibility of fully incorporating sensors, communication systems and conductive, washable backbones into the textiles, which promise to be resistant to creasing or stretching. Deister Electronic GmbH (Germany) is presenting what it calls the ‘Textag. This is a textile transponder (information carrier) which has aerial thread incorporated within the textile fabric, along with a RFID-Chip.

More:

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/NewsDetails.asp?News_id=15589

US military ‘rocks’ spy world

2005-05-27T12:46:00.000-07:00

US military ‘rocks’ spy world

By Jeremy Grant in Chicago Published: May 26 2005 20:59 Last updated: May 26 2005 20:59
The US military is developing miniature electronic sensors disguised as rocks that can be dropped from an aircraft and used to help detect the sound of approaching enemy combatants.

The devices, which would be no larger than a golf ball, could be ready for use in about 18 months. They use tiny silicon chips and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that is so sensitive that it can detect the sound of a human footfall at 20ft to 30ft. The project is being carried out by scientists at North Dakota State University, which has licensed nano-technology processes from Alien Technology, a California-based commercial manufacturer of RFID tags for supermarkets.
...
"We've got some very realistic looking artificial rocks and stuck sensors in them,” he said. The military is already working with Detroit carmakers on the development of counter-terrorism and kidnap rescue vehicles. The new sensors would be made cheaply enough to be left on the ground without need for retrieval by soldiers. RFID technology uses radio signals that are sent from a silicon chip to a remote sensing device.
...
By January this year, all suppliers to the US military were required to put RFID tags on most cases and pallets delivered to the military. But the project's scope widened after the attacks. “9/11 changed the field of play dramatically,” he said. “We've had to enlarge our mission.”

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/35bae060-ce20-11d9-9a8a-00000e2511c8.html

RFID Market to Exceed $6 billion Worldwide by 2010

2005-05-27T12:34:00.000-07:00

GLOBAL TRACKING ABILITY

RFID Market to Exceed $6 billion Worldwide by 2010
By Editorial Staff

Datamonitor: Germany, UK expected to be dominant European countries for RFID into the future

New York — May 27, 2005 — Independent market analyst Datamonitor predicts that radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, including hardware, software and services across all verticals, will be a $6.1 billion market by 2010, three times that of today.
In its report "RFID in Manufacturing: The race to radio-tag is heating up in manufacturing," the firm predicts 43 percent of revenues will be derived from North America; 33 percent from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and 21 percent from Asia Pacific (APAC). Central and Latin America will account for 3 percent of global expenditure ($185 million).
[...]
The mandates issued to manufacturers by Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense have pushed RFID technology into the minds of many businesses, according to Jura. In the United States, pharmaceutical manufacturers are also moving to respond to mandates issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Full article:
http://www.sdcexec.com/article_arch.asp?article_id=7199

They Watch You Shop Till You Drop

2005-05-27T12:25:00.000-07:00

Wednesday, May 25. 2005
Touring the Grocery Store

A doctoral candidate used RFID collected data on shopping carts to get a sense of where shoppers go in the grocery store. The results? A sort of "everything you know is wrong" regarding how experts think shoppers travel. The data was analyzed without regard for what people bought or specific marketing tactics. The new map of the stores might be based on these revolutionary findings:
Shoppers don't get to the end of an aisle; they get what they need and turn back. Shoppers tend to prefer traveling the store counter-clockwise and that outside edge of the store serves as a main street. Shoppers speed up in their work as they approach the check out area.

http://www.directionsmag.com/blog/archives/261-Touring-the-Grocery-Store.html

To Fill The Spybase Files By Force

2005-05-25T09:03:00.000-07:00

To fill the Spybase files by hook or by crook

RFID Tracker Spy Chips are to be linked to a system of huge
interconnected databases, "The Spybase" which is filled with
all possible information gathered on all persons by any means,
be it Force or Fraud
---------

FBI asks Congress for power to seize documents

By Alan Elsner
Reuters
Tuesday, May 24, 2005; 6:53 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI on Tuesday asked the U.S. Congress for sweeping new powers to seize business or private records, ranging from medical information to book purchases, to investigate terrorism without first securing approval from a judge.

Valerie Caproni, FBI general counsel, told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee her agency needed the power to issue what are known as administrative subpoenas to get information quickly about terrorist plots and the activities of foreign agents. Click [HERE]

Implanting Citizens With Verichips – The Taking of Free Will

2005-05-23T16:16:00.000-07:00

Implanting Citizens With Verichips – The Taking of Free Will

By Nancy LevantMichNews.comApr 25, 2005

[excerpt]

RFID and chipping industries include banks, gas stations, hospitals, social security numbers and drivers’ licenses, passports, schools, military including our soldiers and our enemies, automobiles, telephones and cell phones, televisions, computer systems, prisons, schools, pre-schools, government, all work places and corporations, bars, restaurants, country clubs and other private clubs – or, in other words, it’s everywhere, but like all the other global infrastructures that were slid beneath us by our government and its corporations, RFID technology and human chipping is mostly blacked-out via media so that we do not know their truth and the horrible extent of that truth.

Read full commentary here:

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7968.shtml

The tag man cometh

2005-05-23T08:22:00.000-07:00

Tuesday May 3, 2005

The tag man cometh

BY CHARLES F. MOREIRA

US-BASED VeriChip Corp's implantable radio frequency identification (RFID) transponders have hit Malaysian shores.

These miniature chips, which can be implanted in humans, are being distributed by Penang-based Inforlexus Sdn Bhd, which was appointed the exclusive local distributor of the VeriChip in early April.
Inforlexus (www.inforlexus.com.my) develops customised ID solutions ranging from building access and patient identification applications to military applications for rapidly identifying battlefield casualties.
The company said it would focus on marketing the VeriChip to the local health and security industries.
[...]
Besides Malaysia, Inforlexus is also exclusive distributor for the VeriChip in Thailand and Indonesia.

Ham said that the company's Indonesian partner hopes to provide the chips to the Indonesian military to enable them to quickly identify soldiers killed or wounded in battle.

In early March, Inforlexus and VeriChip donated 150 chips and two chip readers to the Thai government for future use in disaster management, he said.

“When they have a full system with database in place, should disasters (like the Dec 26 tsunami) strike again, they will be able to recognise and identify victims more quickly than with conventional DNA testing,” he added.

Complete article here:

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/5/3/corpit/10834937&sec=corpit

The VeriSpyChip

2005-05-23T08:07:00.000-07:00

Digital Angel Corporation and VeriChip Corporation Announce Plans to Initiate Clinical Studies of Verichip With Bio-Thermo (Temperature Sensing) Capabilities

Thursday April 28, 1:16 pm ET
SO. ST. PAUL, Minn., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Angel Corporation (Amex: DOC - News), an advanced technology company in the field of rapid and accurate identification location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets and VeriChip Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Digital (Nasdaq: ADSX - News) today announced that the companies plan to initiate clinical studies on an enhanced version of its Verichip implantable radio frequency identification device. The enhanced product will include temperature sensing capabilities in addition to its existing identification capabilities. The companies will retain an independent internationally recognized research institute to conduct the trials. Based upon the results of that study, Digital Angel plans to pursue the necessary regulatory procedures to obtain clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to distribute such a transponder in the United States for human use. In October of 2004, Digital Angel received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to distribute a transponder for patient identification applications.

About Digital Angel Corporation
Digital Angel Corporation develops and deploys sensor and communications technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets. Applications for the Company's products include identification and monitoring of pets, fish, humans and livestock through its patented implantable microchips; location tracking and message monitoring of vehicles and aircraft in remote locations through systems that integrate GPS and geosynchronous satellite communications; and monitoring of asset conditions such as temperature and movement, through advanced miniature sensors.

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Spychips Embedded In Your Clothing

2005-05-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

High-tech plan for shoppers

BY TOM VAN RIPERDAILY NEWS WRITER

The Radio Frequency Identification technology is being used at the
Corona branch of the Queens Public Library.
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The VeriChip used in RFID systems is dwarfed by a penny.
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How much privacy would you risk to make your shopping easier?
Imagine swiping an ID card at a kiosk as you enter a department store like Macy's or a discounter like Wal-Mart, informing the store you've come in.
After finding, say, a couple of pieces of clothing you like, you head to the dressing room to try them on.
If they fit, you just hold them under a scanner that's built right into the dressing stall.
A second later - presto - you own them.
The system, already equipped with your credit card info, has recorded the sale, and you walk right out of the store.
That's the latest vision of some big retailers and their tech partners.

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But, consumer advocates contend, at what price does a person want to mark all of his or her shopping habits for public consumption?

Leaving that store with chips embedded in your jackets, pants and - some say eventually - groceries and drug store items, could set you up as a walking lightning rod for any passerby with his hands on a scanner.
Worse, critics say, imagine a police officer able to discreetly zap your purse or wallet to see what's inside.

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Feds Fund Local Spys

2005-05-23T06:22:00.000-07:00

Counterterror grants fund city cameras, data mining
By Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Millions of federal grant dollars allocated for municipalities to use for terrorism prevention and response are being spent to expand camera surveillance systems, buy data-mining programs for small-town police departments and create facial-recognition technology....... Click [HERE]

You Are Not Paranoid

2005-05-22T22:15:00.000-07:00

They Really Are Watching You
Ready for your own all-new, sinister ID card, courtesy of Homeland Security? Shudder

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Well, now we've done it.
Congress just passed it and Dubya has promised to sign it and the Homeland Security Department is giddier than Mel Gibson in a nail factory over it and marketers nationwide are salivating at the groin at the prospect of it, and the next big step toward America becoming an even more delightfully paranoid and draconian Big Brother wonderland has now officially been taken.

It's called Real ID. More Click [HERE]

IBM, Adolph Hitler and the Hollerith Tracking Machine

2005-05-22T15:30:00.000-07:00

Thomas J. Watson

Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) is considered to be the founder of International Business Machines (IBM). He was one of the richest men of his time and called the world's greatest salesman when he died.

Thomas Watson, pictured in 1917, is considered the founder of IBM.

Early life and career
Watson was born in Campbell, New York. His formal education consisted of only a course in the Elmira School of Commerce. His first job was at age 18 as a bookkeeper in Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post, New York. Later he sold sewing machines and musical instruments before joining the National Cash Register Company (NCR) as a salesman in Buffalo. He eventually worked his way up to general sales manager. Bent on inspiring the dispirited NCR sales force, Watson introduced the motto, "THINK," which later became a widely known symbol of IBM.
While at NCR, he was convicted for illegal anti-competitive sales practices (e.g. he used to have people sell deliberately faulty cash registers, either second-hand NCR or from competitors; soon after the second-hand NCR or competitors cash register failed, an NCR salesperson would arrive to sell them a brand new NCR cash register). He was sentenced, along with John H. Patterson (the owner of NCR), to one year of imprisonment. Their conviction was unpopular with the public, due to the efforts of Patterson and Watson to help those affected by the 1913 Dayton, Ohio floods, but efforts to have them pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson were unsuccessful. However, the Court of Appeals overturned the conviction on appeal in 1915, on the grounds that important defense evidence should have been admitted.
Watson married Jeanette M. Kittredge on April 17, 1913. The couple had two sons and two daughters. Both sons followed him into the family business, rising to top executive positions at IBM. The older son, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., became head of IBM shortly before his father's death. The younger son, Arthur K. Watson, served as president of IBM World Trade Corp., the company's international operations.

Head of IBM
Watson became the president of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company on May 1, 1914. This was a company that had only been in existence for three years. When he took the job, the company had fewer than 400 employees. In 1924 the company merged with the International Business Machines Corporation and took its name. Watson built IBM into such a powerful force that the federal government filed a civil antitrust suit against them in 1952. IBM owned more than 90 percent of all tabulating machines in the United States at the time.
He considered an important part of his job to motivate the sales force. As part of this, he was famous for making his salespeople at both NCR and IBM attend sing-a-longs (see The IBM Songbook below).
Throughout his life, Watson maintained a deep interest in international relations. He adopted for IBM the slogan, "World Peace Through World Trade," worked closely with the International Chamber of Commerce and in 1937 was elected its president. For many years Mr. Watson served as a trustee of Columbia University and Lafayette College. He was presented with honorary degrees by 27 colleges and universities in the United States and four abroad. This work, however, was not without controversy. In 1937, Watson received the Eagle with Star medal from German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, for the help that IBM subsidiary Dehomag and its Hollerith punchcard machines provided the Nazi regime for tabulating census data. After the outbreak of World War II, Watson returned the medal, yet IBM continued to profit from Dehomag.
Watson was named chairman of IBM in September 1949. A month before his death, Watson handed over the reins of the company to his older son, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. His other son, Arthur K. Watson, served as president of IBM World Trade Corp.
He lived at 4 East Seventy-fifth Street in Manhattan at the time of his death. He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

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FDA approves injecting ID chips in patients

2005-05-22T14:10:00.000-07:00

FDA approves injecting ID chips in patients
Published: October 13, 2004, 1:55 PM PDT
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the practice of injecting humans with tracking devices for medical purposes, according to a Florida company that makes the devices.
Applied Digital, maker of the implantable VeriChip for humans, announced Wednesday the FDA's approval of its technology for use in hospitals following a yearlong review by the agency.
The computer chips, which are about the size of a grain of rice, are designed to be injected into the fatty tissue of the arm. Using a special scanner, doctors and other hospital staff can fetch information from the chips, such as the patient's identity, their blood type and the details of their condition, in order to speed treatment.

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Also see:

Special reportHuman chips more than skin deep
Idea of implanting ID tags raises Orwellian fears.

"It's for your own good, comrade"

2005-05-22T13:58:00.000-07:00

German hospital uses RFID for patient identification
The goals: Easier patient data access and drug safety

News Story by Computing South AfricaMAY 20, 2005 - Technology partners Siemens Business Services, Intel and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have launched a pilot project for patient identification using RFID (radio frequency identification) tags at Klinikum Saarbrucken Hospital in southern Germany.
Covering approximately 1,000 patients, the deployment of the latest IT and RFID technology aims to provide easier access to patient data and to help improve safety in drug dosage and administration.
In the future, patients admitted to the hospital will be given a wristband with an integrated RFID chip containing their patient number, which can be read by doctors and nurses using tablet PCs and PDAs. The identification is designed to enable authorized persons to access a protected database containing the patient's data, including details of any drugs to be administered and the correct dosages, online via a wireless LAN.
Unauthorized access is prevented using the latest encryption technology.
The project is based on an RFID implementation at the Jacobi Medical Center in New York. A particular focus of this pilot project is drug safety.
Faster, easier identification of patients is intended to help caregivers intensify the level of care, and to administer drugs easily and safely, since certain data and risk factors -- such as allergies, for example -- can be stored for each patient.

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IBM Has Some Tall RFID Plans

2005-05-22T13:47:00.000-07:00

IBM Has Some Tall RFID Plans
May 20, 2005 12:26PM

"It's important to move the data processing to the edge of a network," says IBM exec Ann Breidenbach. Not only does it cut down on network traffic, but it also reduces the load on enterprise applications -- which run on expensive servers.

IBM is ramping up its efforts to compete in the emerging market for products that communicate environmental data to I.T. systems for analysis -- which Big Blue says could represent a $20 billion opportunity by 2007.
These days there's a spotlight on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, thanks to adoption mandates from retailers such as Wal-Mart , Best Buy and Albertsons that are working to incorporate the wireless tracking technology into their supply chains.
But RFID isn't the only sensor-based technology in play, says Ann Breidenbach, director of product line management and business strategy for IBM's newly formed Sensors and Actuators business unit.
Defined broadly, sensors are devices, such as thermometers and pressure gauges, which detect conditions in the physical world. Actuators receive electrical signals from sensors and execute an action -- such as a valve or a switch that shuts itself off or makes an adjustment.
For decades, sensors and actuators have helped monitor industrial processes. The trouble is,such devices tend to be part of single-purpose, closed implementations such as a system that monitors whether a conveyer belt in a manufacturing facility is running properly, Breidenbach says.

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IBM has allotted $250 million over the next five years to develop, market and sell products for RFID and other sensor-based systems. But IBM isn't alone in eyeing RFID. All the major platform vendors are coming out with RFID-related products.

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