December 8, 2010

Federal Control: Chips/RFID: Page 9

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Man grips future with microchip implants in hands
In each hand, between his thumb and index finger, is a microchip implant, which he can use to open doors to his apartment and car and sign on to his computer.
Source: The Seattle Times, March 1, 2006
Couple’s implant chips take love to a new level
Jennifer Tomblin and Amal Graafstra have made the most modern declaration of their affection for each other, with implanted electronic chips that allow them unfettered access to each other’s lives.
Source: CTV.ca, February 16, 2006
US group implants electronic tags in workers
An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees – the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
February 12, 2006
Employees get microchip implants
A Cincinnati company is requiring any employee who works in its secure data center to be implanted with a microchip.
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 10, 2006

Hold off on that chip, says Thompson
When former Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson joined the board of directors of a company promoting the broad implantation of microchips into Americans for identification purposes, he pledged to get chipped himself as an example.
But Thompson doesn’t appear to be in any hurry to get the implant.
Source: WorldNetDaily, December 12, 2005
Super-soldiers may get brain-chip
US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.
Source: news.com.au, October 24, 2005
Banker Gets ID Chip Implant
To help publicize a company that makes microchips that can be implanted in humans for identification purposes, a prominent San Francisco banker got “chipped” Monday so that his living will is just a scan away if he ever becomes seriously ill….
The chip was an answer to his “increasing paranoia of having the specific provisions in his living will executed” in a worst case scenario, said Mr. Merriman, who does not have any serious medical conditions.
Source: Red Herring (online), September 19, 2005
Brit License Plates Get Chipped
The British government is preparing to test new high-tech license plates containing microchips capable of transmitting unique vehicle identification numbers and other data to readers more than 300 feet away.
Officials in the United States say they’ll be closely watching the British trial as they contemplate initiating their own tests of the plates, which incorporate radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags to make vehicles electronically trackable.
Source: Wired News, August 9, 2005
Wireless Tracking of Border Crossings
A U.S. security official said Wednesday it will use wireless technology at five border posts with Canada and Mexico to track foreigners driving in and out of the United States.
Border authorities will provide a chip that drivers will put on the dashboard of vehicles.
Source: Yahoo! News, July 27, 2005
GOP star to get chip implant
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has volunteered to get an RFID electronic chip implant to show the world just how safe the new technology is.
Source: WorldNetDaily, July 22, 2005
US wants to be able to access Britons’ ID cards
The United States wants Britain’s proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents.
The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.
Source: The Independent (online), May 27, 2005
RFID reads 99.5 percent of airline luggage
RFID technology supplier R4 Global Solutions’ VP of Technology Charles Rice says RFID is much better suited to airline baggage tracking than barcode-based solutions.
Source: Supply Chain Review (online), April 2, 2005
California spy-chip ID card ban?
A California senator has introduced a bill aimed at banning spy chip ID cards in the state.
Joe Simitian’s SB 682 would, “would prohibit identity documents (including library cards) created, mandated, or issued by various public entities from containing a contactless integrated circuit or other device that can broadcast personal information or enable personal information to be scanned remotely”.
Source: p2pnet, March 4, 2005
Venice Tracks Vehicles with RFID
Combine historic Venice, Italy with millions of automobiles and you have the perfect test of Wi-Fi-based RFID. San Mateo, Calif-based AeroScout accepted the challenge to bring a confusing vehicle tracking system into the wireless future.
While vehicles for locals are banned from Venice in favor of gondoliers moving along watery canals, the ancient city still receives a crush of automobiles from the many visiting tourists. Located closest to the city, the Port Authority of Venice parking facility must keep track of vehicles. In hope of spreading the use of RFID along the Adriatic coast, AeroScout’s Italian partner Teleporto Adriatico (TPA) sees Venice as an ideal testbed.
Source: Wi-Fi Planet, March 2, 2005
German researchers move forward on plastic RFID chip
Researchers in Germany have come one step closer to realizing a dream of manufacturers, retailers and other companies seeking advanced but inexpensive ways to trace products and materials: a cheap chip made of plastic that can be printed on foil the same way a newspaper is printed on paper.
Source: Computer World (online), January 13, 2005
Social Security Administration utilizes RFID
Retirees are unlikely to see radio frequency identification tags on their Social Security checks anytime soon. But Social Security Administration officials will begin tracking orders for SSA forms and pamphlets early this year using RFID technology.
Source: USA Today (online), January 5, 2005
Setting the stage for controversial tracking technology, the satellite elecommunications company ORBCOMM has signed an agreement with VeriChip Corp., maker of the world’s first implantable radio frequency identification microchip.
WorldNetDaily, December 23, 2004
Officials who attended a world Internet and technology summit in Switzerland last week were unknowingly bugged, said researchers who attended the forum.
Badges assigned to attendees of the World Summit on the Information Society were affixed with radio-frequency identification chips (RFIDs), said Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch and George Danezis in a report issued after the conference ended Friday in Geneva. The badges were handed out to more than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level officials from 174 countries, including the United States.
Source: The Washington Times (online), December 14, 2003
Transit Moves Ahead With RFID
At the Smart Card Alliance 2004 annual fall conference in San Francisco, held last week, a number of sessions indicated strong growth and continuing interest in applications for contactless payment
devices for fare collection in mass transit systems across the country. Transit agencies are finding the use of contactless smart cards for automated fare collection increasingly
attractive because the technology harnesses user data, which helps in communications and marketing efforts, and lowers payment-system maintenance and operation costs.
Source: RFID Journal (online), October 27, 2004
There has been a great deal of discussion about what exactly the business case is for deploying RFID in a lot of industries. Given tag prices today—25 cents and up for a simple license plate UHF tag—it’s a challenge to find a return on investment (ROI) in many industries. Healthcare is not one of them.
Source: RFID Journal (online), October 24, 2004
Chips Coming to a Brain Near You
Professor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area of the brain known for creating memories. If successful, the artificial brain prosthesis could replace its biological counterpart, enabling people who suffer from memory disorders to regain the ability to store new memories.
Source: Wired News, October 22, 2004
Are new passports identity-theft risk?
While the U.S. State Department prepares to switch over to passports that include embedded data chips, privacy experts worry the new technology will open Americans to identity theft and fraud.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 21, 2004
Identity Badge Worn Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for a Florida company to market implantable chips that would provide easy access to individual medical records.
Source: The New York Times, October 14, 2004
Tiny tracking chips will be ‘everywhere’
In the future, a controversial technology that uses tiny computer chips to identify and track items from a distance will be "on everything from diapers to surgical instruments," says an executive for a leading corporation.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 2, 2004
Is that a microchip in my meat?
More than a thousand pounds of pork processed at a Sioux Center meatpacking plant was recalled Saturday because a microchip could be embedded in the meat.
The Sioux-Preme Packing Co. recalled 110 pork shoulder butts — about 1,100 pounds of meat — that could contain the metal devices used to measure scientific data in hogs.
Source: CNN, September 18, 2004
RFID gets skin-deep alternative
One German start-up has created an alternative to RFID that is likely to get under consumers’ skin.
Ident Technologies has dreamt up Skinplex – which could be used in all the same ways as RFID and Bluetooth – but uses a different transmitter: human skin.
Source: silicon.com, August 4, 2004
RFID everywhere: From amusement parks to blood supplies
Amusement park Legoland in Billund, Denmark, has taken the concept of "lost and found" to a new level. If a child gets lost somewhere between Titania’s Palace and Safari Park, a parent quickly can home in on the youngster’s location using a cell phone and rented ID worn by the child.
Also: Legoland uses RFID for finding lost kids
Source: Network World (online), May 3, 2004
Bio-chip featured at government health showcase
A syringe-injectable microchip implant designed to carry medical records and personal identification information underneath the skin of humans is just one of 20 new technologies chosen by the government to be showcased today and Friday at the Healthier U.S. Summit
in Baltimore, Md.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 29, 2004
Paying for drinks with wave of the hand
Like a scene out of a science-fiction movie, all it takes is a syringe-injected microchip implant for the beautiful men and women of the nightclub scene to breeze past a "reader" that recognizes their identity, credit balance and even automatically opens doors to exclusive areas of the club for them.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 14, 2004
Chip implanted in cop’s hand would allow only officer to fire the gun
A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.
The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer’s hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless
Source: Sun Sentinal (Florida, online), April 13, 2004
Spy chips’ for nation’s livestock?
A lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require the government to track livestock from birth to slaughter.
Source: WorldNetDaily, February 28, 2004
Ohio Considers Electronic Tracking of Cats
Democrat Renee Greene introduced legislation Monday to implant microchips beneath the fur of 1,000 cats, giving the animals a permanent identification tag. A runaway cat’s owner would be identified by scanning the chip, which would be about the size of a grain of rice,
then checking the scan against a voluntary registry maintained by the city.
Source: ABC News (online), February 10, 2004

Bio-chip implant arrives for cashless transactions
At a global security conference held today in Paris, an American company announced a new syringe-injectable microchip implant for humans, designed to be used as a fraud-proof payment method for cash and credit-card transactions.
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 21, 2003
Three R’s: Reading, Writing, RFID
Gary Stillman, the director of a small K-8 charter school in Buffalo, New York, is an RFID believer.
While privacy advocates fret that the embedded microchips will be used to track people surreptitiously, Stillman said he believes that RFID tags will make his inner city school safer and more efficient.
Stillman has gone whole-hog for radio-frequency technology, which his year-old Enterprise Charter School started using last month to record the time of day students arrive in the morning. In the next months, he plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records, cafeteria purchases and visits to
the nurse’s office. Eventually he’d like to expand the system to track students’ punctuality (or lack thereof) for every class and to verify the time they get on and off school buses
Source: Wired, October 24, 2003
Tracking Junior With a Microchip
A Mexican company has launched a service to implant microchips in children as an anti-kidnapping device.
Source: Wired News, October 10, 2003
EU may go digital with passports
European Union governments may soon issue passports containing computer chips embedded with digital fingerprints or eye scans, according to a plan approved by European leaders Friday.
The "biometric" data would allow police officers to verify the
authenticity of European passports, which have been counterfeited in significant numbers in recent years, officials said at their summit meeting here.
The chips would also be implanted in visas given to non-EU citizens, making it easier for governments to keep track of foreigners as they travel through borderless Europe.
Source: International Harold Tribune (online), June 21, 2003
Applied Digital Solutions, a technology development company, yesterday said it has created and successfully field-tested a prototype of a GPS implant for humans.
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 14, 2003
Applied Digital Solutions, maker of implantable identification chips for humans, is ramping up a new media blitz with the "chipping" of a reporter and unveiling yesterday in London of a new temperature-sensing microchip….Applied Digital Solutions (NASDAQ: ADSX) of West Palm Beach, Fla., maker of the
implantable VeriChip, coined the term "getting chipped" as part of a marketing campaign that attracted worldwide coverage. It culminated last May when 8 individuals were chipped.
Source: WorldNetDaily, April 29, 2003
What Your Clothes Say About You
In a move wireless industry analysts say will infringe on
customers’ privacy, clothing designer Benetton plans to weave
radio frequency ID chips into its garments to track its clothes
worldwide.
Source: Wired News, March 12, 2003
FDA Warns Applied Digital on Chip Implant
Applied Digital Solutions Inc. has improperly marketed its implanted microchip for medical uses, U.S. regulators warned in a letter made public on Tuesday.
Source: Reuters (online), November 19, 2002
As "Good Morning America," "Inside Edition," and "The CBS Evening News" televise the much-hyped "chipping" of eight individuals starting today, Lee Tien, the senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is speaking out passionately about what many experts believe are serious threats posed by implanting chips in humans – threats he says are not being adequately portrayed by the major media.
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 10, 2002
US accepts ‘Big Brother’ chip implant
A company in the US has been given the go-ahead to implant a chip that would contain both personal and medical information.
Source: BBC News (online), April 4, 2002
Company to Sell Implantable Chip
A company plans to begin selling a computer ID chip that can be embedded beneath people’s skin, now that the Food and Drug Administration (news
web sites) has said it will not regulate the implant as long as it contains no medical data.
Source: Yahoo News, AP Press, Apr. 4, 2002
Making good on its promise to "achieve a global presence,"
Digital Angel Corporation – manufacturer and marketer of high-tech, implantable devices for tracking human beings – has opened a research and development facility in Shen Zhen, a special economic zone near Hong Kong, hoping to cash in on vast markets in China and the Far East.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 28, 2002
Technology to Meld Chips into Humans Draws Closer
The chip will also know if your child has fallen and needs immediate help. Once paramedics arrive, the chip will also be able to tell the rescue workers which drugs little Johnny or Janie is allergic to. At the hospital, the chip will tell doctors his or her complete medical history.
Source: ABC News (online), March 1, 2002
Foreign executives and other individuals who are frequent kidnapping targets in Latin America will soon be able to use implantable ID chips and personal GPS devices in an attempt to thwart their abductors.
Applied Digital Solutions announced Thursday it had reached an agreement with a distributor to sell its VeriChip and Digital Angel products in three South American countries.
Source: Wired, Jan. 25, 2002
A Palm Beach, Florida-based telecommunications company has developed a miniature digital monitoring device that can be implanted in people, intended to assist in locating missing children or for monitoring the heart rate of at-risk patients.
Source: CNN.com, December 20, 1999
New implant technology currently used to locate lost pets has been adapted for use in humans, allowing implant wearers to emit a homing beacon, have vital bodily functions monitored and confirm identity when making e-commerce transactions.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 20, 2000

Heads up, future cyborgs! Implantable chips are back in the news, with the current focus on a tiny chip that can be injected into your body, then used to identify and monitor you.

Beginning July 15, Applied Digital Solutions will begin beta testing on humans an implant technology capable of allowing users to emit a homing beacon, have vital bodily functions monitored and confirm identity when making e-commerce transactions.
Source: WorldNetDaily, June 14, 2001
A NASDAQ-traded company has finally unveiled its long-touted and highly controversial "Digital Angel" — a subdermal microchip implant designed not merely for keeping tabs on pets, but for widespread, worldwide use in tracking human beings.
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 1, 2000
Smartcard
As technology speeds towards the millennium, our old credit cards are being replaced with cleverer versions – smart cards. As well as a magnetic strip, the smart card has a chip embedded in it which can hold far more information. And once the technology to
talk to the chip is in all the shops, it will be the beginning of the
end of the world as we know it. Things are going to get easier.
Source: BBC Online, March 31, 1999
Privacy groups may demand Pentium III recall
Online privacy advocates, saying they emerged from a meeting with Intel Corp. officials angrier than ever about the chip maker’s plans to put identification numbers on its forthcoming Pentium III microprocessors, may eventually demand a recall of the chips.
Source: Ziff-Davis ZDNet, January 29, 1999
Intel to put Individual ID in Pentium Chips
Intel Corp. will unveil plans to embed identification numbers in its PC processors on Thursday, according to industry insiders and cryptographers familiar with the company’s efforts. In doing so, the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker could be sounding the death knell for anonymity on the Internet….As a pure privacy issue, it allows for a
means of tracking individuals on the Net.
Source: Ziff-Davis ZDNet, January 20, 1999
Is the human body a fit place for a microchip? The debate is no longer hypothetical. The same computing power that once required an entire building to harness now can be inserted in your left arm.
Source: CNN, January 14, 1999
ID Chip Implants in Animals are Real!
Over 3.5 million computer chips containing ID numbers have been implanted in animals.
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