This rumor again? Remember kids, Snopes is your friend. The last time I heard it, It was supposed to be part of Bush’s Patriot Act. “They” were saying that because of 9/11 Bush wanted to have us chipped to I don’t know, protect us from SOMETHING, though I was never clear exactly what.
The Patriot Act, which I had hoped the Dems would dump, curbs citizens privacy and freedom in the name of 9/11. Shit, I’m more likely to die of a tylenol overdose than to be killed by a terrorist. Fear is a great way to control people, thankyouverymuch.
If you are carrying a credit card that you can wave near a detector at the cash register you are as trackable as if you had an rfid chip embedded between your shoulder blades.
Every time you walk past a traffic cam or an ATM or a security camera your picture is taken and stored. You may find these security cameras interesting.
If you cut and paste this link into Google you’ll find a list of web cams. Most are things like parking lots, lobbies, etc. Some are naughty so use caution. If you can look at them, anybody can.
inurl:”viewerframe?mode=motion”
RFID chips aren’t necessary. The police can even triangulate your location from cell phone towers.
Alaska – bastion of freedom – puts RFID chips in driver’s licenses.
In Spain and the Netherlands you can get an RFID chip implanted to pay your bar tab. I would so cut off someone’s arm to get a hold of what is, essentially, an arm-shaped credit card.
The strips in your money help to identify bills that have been bleached and printed with another denomination. If they are passive RFID devices, that would make it possible to identify how much money is in your wallet as you walk by. Somebody please wave a twenty at a credit card RFID reader and tell me whether anything, even an error, occurs.
I’m an engineer. The technology for these things is simple, and in all the tech journals. You should read some of them and you’ll see this stuff isn’t secret! I make no representation as to whether the technology is actually in use, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
http://www.todaysengineer.org/2008/May/RFID.asp
Homeland Security expanded the size of government by 30%! The stated reason for HS, to provide a liaison between law enforcement agencies, doesn’t need thousands of people! Bush’s Patriot Act – extended by Obama – tells you EXACTLY what the rest of HS people do. Other than feel up children at airports, that is.
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This year, IEEE-USA co-sponsored its second conference on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID has been a rapidly-adopted technology, largely on the basis of its potential for saving costs and improving productivity in distribution and consumer transactions. The market is estimated…
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