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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:09 pm Post Subject: How Long Before We're All Forced to be Microchipped?
Here's an editorial piece from WXP News Vol. 8, #15 - Apr 15, 2008 - Issue #323:
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How Long Before We're All Forced to be Microchipped?
We've talked about microchipping here before, and when we have, readers have responded with everything from "the end is near" to "you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist." Since the last time we discussed the topic almost two years ago ("Chipping Away at your Rights," May 2, 2006 http://www.wxpnews.com/?id=225 ), the march of technology has gone on.
At that time, RFID tags in livestock was already routine and many people were starting to get their pets "chipped." Voluntary chip implants in humans were available and being used by bars and private clubs for payment, and a few companies were experimenting with chipping their workers who needed access to secure facilities.
Last week, microchips made the news again in a big way when the Daily Mail reported that the London Metropolitan Police will be implanting chips in all police officers so administrators can monitor their movements. It's being touted as an officer safety measure, but it's not making all officers feel safer. Officers are already tracked by GPS devices in their radio headsets, but under-the-skin implants will take that to a whole new level. Some have raised concerns that the terrorists and other bad guys will be able to hack into the devices despite encryption, and know exactly where the cops are at any given moment.
http://www.wxpnews.com/0TC5H3/080415-Police-Chips
Maybe it's because I was once a cop that this particular implementation of microchipping hits home so hard. In the U.S., if you've been a police officer (just as if you've been in the military) your fingerprints are on file with the FBI forever. That seems intrusive enough, but cops accept it as a price that has to be paid if you want the job. If (or should I say "when"?) microchipping becomes mandatory for the police on this side of the big pond, will American cops accept that with no more than a few grumbles, or will they protest? I suspect we would see a few resignations and the rest would go along.
At this point, the chipping can still be seen as "optional." If Met police officers don't want it, they can always quit their jobs and do something else. Of course, for folks who have been cops all their lives and don't know how to or want to do anything else for a living, that's not really much of an option.
For governments that are ultimately determined to exert maximum control over their citizens, it makes sense to start with their own employees. But it's hard to believe the trend will stop with government workers. After all, if chipping can increase officer safety, then wouldn't it also increase the safety of those in other high risk groups? And who's at higher perceived risk than children - especially with all the media attention these days on pedophiles and similar predators?
Of course, once you chip all the little ones, all you have to do is wait for them to grow up and you have a chipped population. There's really no need to force the microchips on adults who might be resistant. If kids grow up with the technology from the beginning, it will seem as natural and normal to them as computers do to today's children.
When we read "1984" as kids, such a future seemed far away and/or impossible in the free world in which we lived. Perhaps we didn't realize was that 1984 does not suddenly come into full blown fruition at midnight on New Year's Eve of whatever year; the elimination of privacy and the domination of Big Brother are part of a gradual process. Like the frog placed in the pan of water with the heat turned up a little at a time, we accept small and incremental steps toward that Brave New World without thinking about where it's all leading - until finally the water is boiling and we're all cooked.
Or not. The other side of the argument says all the fuss over this new technology is an overreaction of Luddites who are just afraid of anything new or religious fanatics who see the chip as the mark of Beast. And it's true that most people, especially as they get older, are uncomfortable with new and unfamiliar technology, even if it's beneficial. The telephone, television, automobiles - all were condemned and/or resisted by many when they were introduced. Space travel was looked upon with disapproval by some folks, often on religious grounds.
And there's no denying that the technology can be useful. Scientists just recently created a device that uses an implanted RFID chip to locate tumors and detect radiation levels in chemotherapy patients.
http://www.wxpnews.com/0TC5H3/080415-Tumor-Tracking-Implants
Still, some states are concerned enough about the prospect of forced implants that they've passed laws prohibiting it. In 2007, California passed SB 362 outlawing mandatory implantation of RFID chips and the governor signed it into law in September of that year. Wisconsin and North Dakota had already passed similar laws. New Hampshire is currently considering such a law in conjunction with other regulations governing RFID products.
http://www.wxpnews.com/0TC5H3/080415-RFID-Tagging
Tell us what you think. Are mandatory microchip implants inevitable? Is it just a matter of time? Is what's good for the family dog also good for the rest of the family (chipping pets is already required by law in some countries)? Should more states pass laws prohibiting forced chipping? Or are those who fear misuse of the chips just making a mountain out of a molehill? Do the advantages outweigh the dangers? Would you refuse to be chipped if it meant losing your job?
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Location: Christchurch
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:45 pm Post Subject:
i agree with smashdracs but i also fear that it wont be too long before they start getting pushed upon us
and of course only because of the vast "benefits" that they bring upon mankind
"You and your families are being targeted in a sustained programming attack. Children use fingerprint scanners to get lunch (a very dangerous precedent indeed.) Mothers visit the shops with a host of loyalty card schemes that monitor your consumer behaviour. People out of the home are monitored by cameras everywhere they go. The Yellow cameras being erected on the motorways of Britain are earmarked for road pricing, and monitoring traffic movement.
When you are finally chipped, (and you will be unless you stop this), your bank details, medical history (have you had all your compulsory jabs yet?), identification, occupation, academic qualification, work and building access rights, criminal history including minor infringements and record of arrest,(even if you were innocent), tax number, social security number, drivers license, will be included on the chip. If the system screws up, you are screwed. No access to any of the above will see you in great trouble. "
Theyre going to be in all the bank cards in the near future, then there will be the stolen hacked card sob stories and lets not forget those poor missing people the police just cant seem to find that will make the people feel better about taking a chip under the skin.
They wont be chipping me without violence, but wait, what was that i here you say, a special chip to cure all diseases and extend my life by 10 years, let me think about it some more... :wink:
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Location: Christchurch
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:15 am Post Subject:
Hitachi has reportedly developed a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip that's just .05 x .05 mm, 64 times smaller than their current line of .4 x .4 mm mu-chips.
The new RFID chips are 5 microns thick and have a 128-bit memory capable of storing a 38-digit ID number. According to a Pink Tentacle post linking to a FujiSankei Business i. article in Japanese, the RFID "powder" is expected to be available in the next two to three years.
Border control staff will be able to use iris scans and finger printing to check passengers' identities under major changes to New Zealand immigration rules.
Despite criticism from Amnesty International at the level of secrecy permitted, the changes look set to become law, with the National Party pledging its support.
National Party immigration spokesman Dr Lockwood Smith acknowledged the bill's provision for using biometric information would be "a little bit controversial" but said it would speed up passenger processing and ultimately benefit New Zealanders.
The bill would simplify visa and appeal processes and legislation would be more in tune with New Zealand's international obligations.
Smith said he had a "lingering concern" that New Zealand might be unable to deport a "bad egg" due to our obligations under the Convention against Torture, which prevents someone being deported to a country where they might be tortured.
"It's a lingering concern but not a major concern, because the chances of that are pretty remote. We would find ways of dealing with it."
Smith said the select committee reviewing the Immigration Act 1987 had to balance New Zealand's security interests against its international commitments such as the Refugee Convention and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Human rights organisations expressed concern after the bill's first reading last year. Amnesty International spokeswoman Margaret Taylor said the select committee had applied some "window dressing" since then but the bill remained oppressive.
Although it looked after New Zealand's risks, it did nothing for people fleeing brutal regimes such as Zimbabwe and Myanmar, she said.
The first draft allowed any government chief executive to classify information that his or her department provided for immigration decisions.
The select committee restricted this so that only the heads of 14 government agencies - including Corrections, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Ministry of Fisheries - can label information secret.
That number was still "unjustifiably broad", Taylor said.
Under the bill, information could be classified if, for example, it would reveal the agency's operational methods or had come from another government on a condition of secrecy. Immigration Minister Clayton Cosgrove said this power was important.
"We have only ever used classified information once in the immigration context," Cosgrove told the Immigration Law conference in Auckland this month, referring to the detention of Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui because of a Security Intelligence Service certificate.
"I don't think that after the bill is passed, we are going to be rushing out to use it more and more."
Amnesty International was concerned about the proposed safeguards on classified information, such as providing a summary of it to the applicant.
"If the summary in the Ahmed Zaoui case is anything to go by, it's worse than useless", Taylor said.
Smith said the amalgamation of the four immigration appeals tribunals to a single Immigration and Protection Tribunal would streamline the process and save money.
He said if the National Party was elected to power this year it would look at the structure of the immigration service.
"We're thinking seriously about what's needed to make it work better. One of the problems is that the head of immigration is not a chief executive,"Smith said.
The immigration service is part of the Department of Labour
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Location: north-east victoria
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:35 pm Post Subject:
i received my new NZ passport today, and without my asking for it, included in the price, of a couple of hundred dollars, (which is an enterprising price tag for a book of 48 blank pages,) is..........
a heavy plastic page which reads:
ATTENTION
This passport contains a contactless integrated circuit chip which is an electronic device. In addition to the normal care and respect afforded a passport, please regard this passport as you would any other portable electronic device, and take caution that this passport not become wet, folded or mutilated. Abuse may adversely affect the operation of the chipand reduce its utility to the bearer and to border inspection personnel.
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Location: The Wild West
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:59 am Post Subject:
Many people these days still seem to equate "getting a chip" with allowing an "implant" to be inserted or some form of minor medical procedure! When you realise just how small these things are (and are told they are "getting" smaller) then you start to realise that "accepting" a chip into yourself might actually be as simple as breathing airborne dust particles! If not right now, then almost certainly sometime soon. Makes sense to me that if there's any truth to the fact that "they" want everyone to have it whether they protest or not then the method of delivery would be designed to be as unnoticeable as possible. The misinformation in this situation then would be the level of technological development you are told has been reached so far and the fact that you actually still have choice PLUS the fact that states governed by people like Arney have made RFID "implants" illegal. Gee, and I just used my common sense to think that up literally as I typed it...
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:41 pm Post Subject:
i may be wrong, Crakka, but i have a feeling that Arnie would love to be the man who chips every breathing creature in his state, but that the overwhelming factor is that the people of California insisted the chips be illegal?
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:24 pm Post Subject:
I don't doubt that for a sec either Steve, but as we also know reverse psychology as a tool to pacify and create a sense of false security (or even confusion?!) has been used successfully for ages.
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Location: Christchurch
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:23 am Post Subject:
Crakka wrote:
Many people these days still seem to equate "getting a chip" with allowing an "implant" to be inserted or some form of minor medical procedure! When you realise just how small these things are (and are told they are "getting" smaller) then you start to realise that "accepting" a chip into yourself might actually be as simple as breathing airborne dust particles! If not right now, then almost certainly sometime soon. Makes sense to me that if there's any truth to the fact that "they" want everyone to have it whether they protest or not then the method of delivery would be designed to be as unnoticeable as possible. The misinformation in this situation then would be the level of technological development you are told has been reached so far and the fact that you actually still have choice PLUS the fact that states governed by people like Arney have made RFID "implants" illegal. Gee, and I just used my common sense to think that up literally as I typed it...
Yeah Crakka the last time i heard they had got rfid down to the size of 0.4 mm
so could well be in those crazy trails in the sky before long at all
id say if they released the knowledge of the 0.4 sized chips they probably already have something better
I hate pdf files but this was worth a look. It appears bigger in size than what the contents contains so don't be put off.
It shows the security of RFID chips (or lack of) and while the security issues were known before the epassports were thrust on us, the next stage would be to make the chip more secure before it could be implanted - or else simply wipe most of the world's population out so that hacking can easily be tracked and stomped out. The ultimate goal is power and to do that the System needs to be able to monitor and control us at will.
