Federal Control: Chips/RFID: Page 8
RFIDs: Smart Little Gizmos Get Even Smarter
Thanks to Björn Nilsson’s research, there is now a solution that
makes the technology even more effective and, what’s more, more energy
efficient. He has developed a protocol, that is, rules for communication
between readers and tags, for so-called active RFID tags that entail
that the use of energy is reduced and batteries last longer. This means
that it is now possible to produce simpler and thereby cheaper tags.
Source: ScienceDaily, July 9, 2010
Nano-Based RFID Tags Could Replace Bar Codes
RFID tags are almost everywhere already. The tiny electronic
transmitters are used to identify and track products and farm animals.
They’re in passports, library books and devices that let drivers pass
through tollbooths without digging for change.
Source: ScienceDaily, March 19, 2010
Vigil protests mandatory chip implants
As WND reported,
Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland
Security, advocates embedding radio chips into citizens’ driver’s
licenses.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 2 2009
Radio chip coming soon to your driver’s license?
Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio
chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for
every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at
anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly.
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 28, 2009
RFID Chips: A Privacy And Security Pandora’s Box?
According to Eleni Kosta and Jos Dumortier of the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, the benefits of RFID technology in
innovation are beyond question. However, the threats posed to personal
privacy should be taken into account at the design phase of the
applications. Their increasingly widespread deployment means individuals
do not necessarily know when, how and what kind of information about
them is being transmitted at any given time from an RFID in a passport,
in their shopping bags, or even when they visit the library.
Source: ScienceDaily, November 25, 2008
How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting Peopl
Because the tags were designed to be powerful tracking devices and
they typically incorporate little security, people wearing or carrying
them are vulnerable to surreptitious surveillance and profiling.
Source: Scientific American, August 2008
Cat returned home after traveling 200 miles
She was found in Pueblo and taken to Pueblo Animal Services, where
officials learned who she was and who her family is when they scanned
her for a microchip.
Source: KOB TV (online), February 18, 2008
Hospitals tagging babies with electronic chips
"Standard protocol in the hospitals using the VeriChip system is that
the baby receives an RFID anklet at birth and the mother receives a
matching wristband," VeriChip spokeswoman Allison Tomek told WND. "The mothers are not asked."
Source: WorldNetDaily, January 15, 2008
Utah chip may track pets, kids
A Sandy [Utah] company, S5 Wireless, is looking to bring reality
closer to the movies, with small, cheap chips that can be powered by a
single battery for up to two years and tracked indoors and outside, over
long distances.
Source: Deseret Morning News, December 14, 2007
Microchip maker ‘hid ties to cancer’
The safety of implantable tracking chips in human beings is suddenly
in focus with the revelation the devices could cause cancer, and that
studies showing links to the disease were kept under wraps.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 9, 2007
Alzheimer’s Patients Lining Up for Microchip
In response to such concerns, a Florida-based company has developed
an FDA-approved microchip that can be implanted in an Alzheimer’s
patient’s arm, allowing critical medical details to be accessed
instantly.
Source: ABC News (online), August 28, 2007
e-Passports get hacked in new security threat
Computer security expert Lukas Grunwald cloned and manipulated the
content of a RFID passport, then used the hacked e-Passport to crash the
machine needed to read it.
Source: CNN Money (online), August 3, 2007
Microchips mulled for HIV carriers in Indonesia’s Papua
Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua are mulling the selective use of chip
implants in HIV carriers to monitor their behaviour in a bid to keep
them from infecting others, a doctor said Tuesday.
Source: Breitbart, July 24, 2007
Computer Chip Implanted in a British Researcher
A silicon chip has been successfully implanted into the arm of a UK
scientist. The experiment, believed to be the first of its kind, means a
computer can keep track of the device and its carrier.
There are positive sides and negative sides – positive in helping
people around big building, negative are the big big brother issues –
machines or computers controlling humans," he said. He says that if
their use became widespread we would never enjoy any privacy and could
be followed and identified wherever we
went.
Source: BBC News
Can cyborg moths bring down terrorists?
At some point in the not too distant future, a moth will take flight
in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected
terrorist training camp.
But this will be no ordinary moth.
Inside it will be a computer chip that was implanted when the
creature was still a pupa, in the cocoon, meaning that the moth’s entire
nervous system can be controlled remotely.
Source: Times Online, May24, 2007
As RFID tracking booms, privacy issues loom
As a business, you want to keep track of your inventory. But as an individual, you don’t want anyone keeping track of you.
These two home truths explain why the long-promised RFID revolution
is finally starting to gather steam — and why it could be quickly
derailed by a growing suspicion of how both governments and terrorists
could misuse the technology.
Source: CNN Money, May 11, 2007
DHS evaluating chipped license proposal
The Department of Homeland Security is proceeding to evaluate Washington
state’s proposal for a driver’s license "enhanced" with a radio
frequency identification, or RFID, chip that would encode personal
information.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 19, 2007
Driver’s licenses to feature radio chips
The state of Washington announced a pilot project to introduce a
driver’s license "enhanced" with a radio frequency identification, or
RFID, chip that would encode personal information and possibly serve as a
passport-alternative if approved by the Department of Homeland
Security.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 6, 2007
Engineer: GPS shoes make people findable
The sneakers work when the wearer presses a button on the shoe to
activate the GPS. A wireless alert detailing the location is sent to a
24-hour monitoring service that costs an additional $19.95 a month.
Source: USA Today (online), February 9, 2007
New biometric passports can be cloned using £100 equipment sold over internet
Passports which have rocketed in value to make them more secure can
be easily cloned using a microchip reader bought over the internet for
less than £100.
Source: This is London, November 17, 2006
Britons ‘could be microchipped like dogs in a decade’
The report, drawn up by a team of respected academics, claims that
Britain is a world-leader in the use of surveillance technology and its
citizens the most spied-upon in the free world.
It paints a frightening picture of what Britain might be like in ten
years time unless steps are taken to regulate the use of CCTV and other
spy technologies.
Source: Daily Mail (online), October 30, 2006
Researchers see privacy pitfalls in no-swipe credit cards
The demonstration revealed potential security and privacy holes in a
new generation of credit cards–cards whose data is relayed by radio
waves without need of a signature or physical swiping through a machine.
Tens of millions of the cards have been issued, and equipment for their
use is showing up at a growing number of locations, including CVS
pharmacies, McDonald’s restaurants and many movie theaters.
Source: C/net News, October 23, 2006
Animal ID opponents gaining steam
Another rebellion is brewing across the hinterland. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture has targeted ranchers, farmers, horse owners,
homesteaders, organic gardeners and chicken-owning grandmas for
participation in a new National Animal Identification System. The
targets are unhappy and are organizing to see that the USDA cannot force
participation in this new high-tech government program.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 16, 2006
500,000 wheelie bins ‘have a spy in the lid’
About 500,000 bins across England already carry the electronic
devices which are slightly bigger than a one-pence piece and are screwed
into a plastic recess in the lip of the wheelie bin. As the bin is
lifted up for emptying by council workers, a sensor on the refuse truck
scans the chip, which carries a serial number assigned to each property
in the street. This then enables the monitoring equipment to identify
the bin’s address and record the weight of the rubbish that is in the
bin.
Source: The Independent (online), August 27, 2006
Researchers: E-passports pose security risk
Radio tags used in everything from building access cards to highway
toll cards to passports are surprisingly easy to copy and pose a grave
security risk, researchers said this week.
Source: ZDNet, August 5, 2006
Powerful new radio chip unveiled
Hewlett-Packard is introducing new
technology to allow the storage of large amounts of information on small
chips that can be attached to various objects.
Source: WorldNetDaily, July 20, 2006
Chip-maker wants to implant immigrants
The maker of the controversial radio-frequency tracking chip suggests implanting the device in immigrants and guest workers.
Source: WorldNetDaily, June 1, 2006
Colombian President Would Consider Immigrant Tracking With Microchips
Comments attributed to Colombia’s president that microchip implants
could be used to track Colombians working temporarily in the U.S. drew attention — and criticism — Thursday.
Source: Fox News (online), May 4, 2006
Group forms to fight animal ID system
A new coalition has formed to fight a new government program meant to identify and track every farm animal in the nation.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 21, 2006
Watch Out, Kids: With GPS Phones, Big Mother Is Watching
Last week, Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced a new service called Family
Locator that lets parents track their kids’ whereabouts, using the GPS
capabilities in each child’s cellphone. For $9.99 a month, you can get a
fix on your little ones’ locations as long as they are on your Sprint
account and carry one of the 30 Sprint or Nextel phones that allow this
monitoring.
Source: The Washington Post (online), April 19, 2006
RFID vulnerable to attacks, researchers say
Researchers say they have proven that effective attacks can be launched against radio frequency identification tags.
In tests, standard "Generation 1" RFID tags and readers were unable
to function after they were overloaded with data, researchers at Edith
Cowan University in Perth, Australia,
said in a report published this month.
Source: c/net, April 13, 2006
Sprint users can track children via GPS
Using the Global Positioning System, the service allows parents to
track up to four cellphones over the Internet or on their own wireless
device. Parents can periodically ask the service to find the child’s
phone, displaying the location on a road map.
Source: USA Today (online), April 13, 2006
Farmers snubbed over dog microchips
The [New Zealand] Government has snubbed farmers and their lobbyists
by refusing to exempt farm dogs from rules that dogs first registered
from July must be microchipped.
Source: stuff.co.nz, March 28, 2006
Viruses leap to smart radio tags
Security researchers have infected a Radio Frequency ID tag with a
computer virus to show how the technology is vulnerable to malicious
hackers.
Source: BBC News (online), March 15, 2006
Implant ID chips called big advance, Big Brother
Doctors implanted a radio ID tag under Sean Darks’ skin that allows
the executive to enter restricted areas of his Ohio security company.
Jack Schmidig, the police chief in Bergen County, N.J., has a similar
chip that doctors can use to find his medical records in an emergency.
And in a somewhat renegade use of the technology, Washington state
entrepreneur Amal Graafstra unlocks his home and car and logs on to his
computer using a chip he bought online and had implanted near his thumb.
SignOnSanDiego, March 12, 2006
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