16 And he causeth all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name
of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the
beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore
and six. (Rev.13 KJB)
Human Bar Code?
The idea of implanting a microchip into a
person, whose personal identity data and sensitive private
information are on the chip (which could also pinpoint the exact
real-time location of the wearer) is creating a lot of
controversy. There is concern among various sectors of society that
this "human bar coding" would curtail individual civil liberties and
violate the person's constitutional freedom and right to privacy,
confidentiality, security and safety. There is also the fear that
this technology could be used by unscrupulous people or criminals,
by competing corporations, or even by some agencies in the
government, for illegal information gathering or surveillance, or
for some immoral objectives.
Is there such microchip today?
Yes, it is no longer science fiction.
Available today, the implantable micro-chip radio frequency
identification device (RFID) is inert (does not cause adverse
reaction on contact with human tissues), encapsulated, the size of a
grain of rice or the tip of a ballpoint pen (12 mm by 2.1 mm) that
is powered and transmits information when activated by a chip
reader. It is tamper-proof, practically undetectable and
indestructible, and is implanted under the skin.
U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students - David Gutierrez, Natural News June 17/08
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor
student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips
implanted in their schoolbags. [full report]
Mexico to use biochip to control illegal immigration - Dec 28/2007 In a communiqué, the INM Thursday said Biochip implants would be used to control the entry of workers and visitors from Belize and Guatemala from March 2008, Spanish news agency EFE reported Friday.
The implant will replace the currently used local pass, which can be easily modified.
The biochip ID will allow total electronic registration of entries and departures, officials said. [full story]
Fury over roll-out of biometric testing for hotel staff - Aug 27/07 Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes issued his warning after it emerged that the Gresham Hotel in Dublin is the latest employer to introduce a 'biometric' system. Workers claim they were not consulted about the introduction of the system that reads handprints.
The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers' brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable "biochip".
Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size of a grain of rice, which measures and relays information on soldiers vital signs 24 hours a day, can be used to put them under surveillance even when they are off duty.
But Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, C3B director and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering claims the that the invivo biosensors will save lives as first responders to the trauma scene could inject the biochip into the wounded victim and gather data almost immediately. [full report]
IBM launches commercial [below vid] on cash free (RFID) shopping....
Some retailers could soon start surcharging customers if they choose to buy products with
cash, because of the greater cost of processing these payments, he warned.
National ID? How about a global ID? Maggie Biggs Aug 13, 2007 The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs) -- a little-known group of nonprofits, government contractors, commercial entities, and government agencies -- has just unveiled a first-of-its-kind global infrastructure to support distributed, integrated identity management and cross-credentialing across organizations. [full report]
WASHINGTON — Millions of residents of three states will soon face tougher and longer screening at airport checkpoints if their governors defy a federal law requiring new, more-secure driver's licenses.
Maine, New Hampshire and South Carolina have until March 31 to say whether they plan to comply with the law, which they say is costly and will inconvenience residents by forcing them to get new licenses.
If the states don't comply, the Homeland Security Department will bar travelers from using those state's licenses and ID cards to board airplanes starting May 11.
"We are not bluffing," department spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said. [full report]
Facial Recognition Is Same As Tossing Coin - The Herald, April 28, 2008
The worst performing biometric technology was facial recognition, which failed 31% of the time for able-bodied participants and a farcical 52% of the time for disabled participants. Problems were also encountered with the elderly, and the system did not cope well with changes to appearances. [full report]
BC Skytrain converting to London based RFID system... June 13/08
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Real ID becomes mandatory. [Didn't "the terrorists" all have passports? How is more ID supposed to help?]
Hitachi goes global with vein recognition biometric Retinal scans, finger prints or facial recognition get most of the attention but developers across the world are quietly labouring away at alternative types of biometrics.
Uproar flares over Verichip Implants for Alzheimer’s patients- June 6/07 It looks deceptively familiar. The patient rolls up his sleeve, the doctor sticks a needle into his arm, and soon it’s all over. But this is no routine vaccination. Instead, the patient has been injected with a fleck of silicon that will uniquely identify him when zapped with radio waves. Now, nearly three years after their use was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, implantable radio frequency identification (RFID) chips are the focus of a new controversy
Microchips in humans: High-tech helpers or Big Brother surveillance? - AP August 2/2007 Chipping, these critics said, might start with Alzheimer's patients or Army Rangers, but would eventually be suggested for convicts, then parolees, then sex offenders, then illegal aliens -- until one day, a majority of Americans, falling into one category or another, would find themselves electronically tagged. [full report]
Big Brother Hits The Beach - AP July 31/2007 Visitors will wear wristbands that automatically debit their bank accounts or credit cards to pay for beach access, food and parking. Garbage cans will send e-mail to cleanup crews when they’re ready to be emptied.
And people won’t even think about trying to sneak in: Beach checkers could scan the sands with handheld devices and instantly know who didn’t pay. [full report]
Andy Rooney promotes the mark of the beast
Here comes the "National ID" ...
By Thomas Horn
RNU News Sr. Reporter
A prototype of an implantable biometric chip capable of
marking an individual's precise location and of monitoring him or her for life
is gaining support. It was named Best in Show of 170 International Science
Exhibitors last year, and released in its "First Phase" wristwatch format
called Guardian Angel soon after. Most recently millions of Today Show viewers
watched an American family get "chipped" with ADS's VeriChip™ live from a
doctor's office in Boca Raton. Recent acts of terrorism have many calling for
mandatory implementation of the implantable technology.
[Notwithstanding the illegality of forcing free people
to pay for an internal passport, so they can leave their homes to get
groceries, etc., it is worth noting that Prime Minister Blair admitted the
chip (or national ID) would do little to
nothing to stop "terrorism", as people who are in the country for brief
periods, or are non-resident, are not required to have the chip.]
RNU.com – (Raiders News Update) - Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) received
patent rights to Digital Angel (TM) technology on December 10, 1999. What set
Digital Angel apart from the competition was the innovative design--a
miniature digital transceiver specifically created for human implantation.
According to information released last year the implantable transceiver "sends
and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning
Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and actuation system are
unlike anything ever created. When implanted within a body, the device is
powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be
activated either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring facility."
An Information Technology report recently verified plans to study implantable
chips as a method of tracking terrorists. After first pulling back from the
implantable version of its Digital Angel, ADS foresees a unique use of its
product in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
"We've changed out thinking since September 11," a company spokesman said,
"Now there's more of a need to monitor evil activities."
ADS also claims the Digital Angel has a variety of other uses, such as
"providing a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business
security, animal tracking, locating lost or missing individuals, tracking the
location of valuable property and monitoring the medical conditions of at-risk
patients."
Following the Internet World Wireless 2001 award for "Best of Show: Client
Services," Mercedes Walton, President and COO of Applied Digital Solutions,
said: ``We have always had high expectations for the Digital Angel products.
This award is truly a validation of our faith in Digital Angel's ability to
capture the imagination of the public. Consumer anticipation has translated
into accelerated interest from potential partners and allies. We are eager to
bring Digital Angel to the marketplace in a very timely manner...."
To read the rest of this article, click below link:
Regarding plans to microchip newborns, Dr.
Kilde said the U.S. has been moving in this direction "in secrecy."
She added that in Sweden, Prime Minister
Olof Palme gave permission in 1973 to implant prisoners, and Data
Inspection's ex-Director General Jan Freese revealed that
nursing-home patients were implanted in the mid-1980s. The
technology is revealed in the 1972:47 Swedish state report, Statens
Officiella Utradninger.
Are you prepared to live in a world in
which every newborn baby is micro-chipped?
[click headline for full story]
Security researchers have released
proof-of-contact code that they say enables an attacker to read the
passport number, date of birth, and passport expiration date from
passports with RFID tags enabled.
Congress passed the Real ID Act last year, and New Hampshire and
Kentucky were offered $3 million grants to test the program. All states must
comply by 2008.
To clone the chip, Westhues first red Newitz's arm with a standard RFID
reader, then scanned it again with a homebrew antenna connected to his
laptop, which recorded the signal off the chip. He then used the same
RFID reader to read the signal from his laptop, which promptly spit out
Newtiz's supposedly unique ID
A recent study showed that almost
one in ten teenagers and one in twenty adults would be willing to have a
microchip implanted to pay shop bills and help to prevent card or
identity fraud and muggings.
Air travellers could soon be electronically tagged inside airports in a bid to improve
security. The technology would use wrist bands or boarding passes
embedded with computer chips and allow authorities to track
passenger movement around terminal buildings.
Paul Brennan, an electronic
engineer at University College London who is leading work on the
EU-funded Optag system, said it would combine high resolution
panoramic video imaging with radio frequency identification (RFID)
tags to enhance airport security, safety and efficiency. "It would
work if each passenger were issued with a tag, which could allow
location to about one metre accuracy," he said. "The video and tag
data can be merged to give a very powerful surveillance
capability."
Despite
the
variousprivacy concerns that have been repeatedly raised in regards to
e-passports, the US is going ahead with
their plans to launch the system this Monday. Not all
newly-issued passports will be RFID-enabled, since mass production
has been held up by the ongoing legal dispute over the technology.
The first passports to be issued will be those produced during the
pilot run of the project, but the full roll-out should be completed
in about a year. Including the extra $12 security surcharge slapped
onto passports last year...
The new rules were supposed to take effect in 2008. But on
Wednesday, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to the controversial
immigration reform package, pushing back the requirements by 17
months
Congress adopted the regulations in 2004 as a means to tighten
border security from possible terrorist threats, with the provision
that they be implemented by 2007
Notice how the focus is now on a new "NEXUS"
system that uses retina scanning of "low risk" applicants.... It is
this sort of database that will likely be converted solely into an
implantable biochip device which holds your identity.
Darpa
has been set up to collect all the electronic information on everybody in the
world including mobile phone communication, credit card transactions, emails
etc.
Every bit of electronic information that is stored about you will be collected
and examined, if need be, but this is only one such organisation.
So if you
refuse what the government wants of you i.e. future implanting of this 666
mark,
then you can be sure that they will track you down because they know where you
go, who you communicate with and the things that you normally do.
When is a national ID card not a national ID card?
That's correct my Orwellian students, its when your leader says its a
"biometric access card".
Australia is set to revert back to being a prison state
as all citizens are to be forced to carry the "access card" by 2010.
The card would include a computer chip with biometric
information and photograph, and is 'designed to reduce welfare and identity
fraud, and protect against terrorists."
In the mid 80s the Hawke Labor Government attempted to
introduce a national ID card in Australia which was fiercely opposed by the
Liberal Party, including the now Prime Minister, John Howard, on the grounds
of infringement of liberty.
Of course now Howard is firmly entrenched within the
globalist power structure he has completely changed his stance on ID cards and
the accompanying biometric database recording control system.
"You have to put that against the right all of us have
to expect of our Government that it takes all reasonable measures to protect
us against the behaviour of terrorists," Mr Howard said.
"I think when people talk about civil liberties they
sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical
attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties."
According to a Sydney Morning Herald article, the
country's attitude to the cards has also changed. An ACNielsen poll for the
Herald last August found that two-thirds of Australians were willing to
sacrifice privacy and civil liberties for protection against terrorists.
Sixty-one per cent were also in favour of a national identity card.
The Australian ID card agenda is the identical twin of
the British ID card agenda. The overall movement is global and it is one being
implemented right under people's noses, piece by piece in a stealth, stepping
stone like fashion.
In addition to changing the rhetoric surrounding the
card, the compulsory nature of it is also being coated in Orwellian
doublespeak.
"It will not be compulsory to have the card," the
Australian newspapers quoted Howard saying today. But, "It will be necessary
for everybody who needs a card to apply for one."
Like The British ID card, which is "optional" for
anyone who doesn't carry a passport, the Aussie card is optional for anyone
who doesn't get ill or pay lower taxes, with the card initially providing
access to Medicare, welfare and tax benefits.
Any number of upgrades could see the card used in all
aspects of life in the two countries. The ID systems in Britain and Australia
equate to lifelong surveillance and an end to life as a private citizen.
Meanwhile in Scotland
plans are being considered by the Scottish Executive to issue ID
cards storing details of every aspect of Citizens lives.
Hundreds of thousands of Scots have already been issued
with the Citizens' National Entitlement Card - a microchipped card that
carries the holder's name and photo. The cards are used to access free bus or
coach travel, but there are plans to link them to a central database.
This would give the Executive access to such details as
people's travel movements, gym visits and reading habits. There are fears that
the system could be expanded to include other information such as NHS records
and benefits payments.
Scotland, a nation that fought for centuries for
freedom and independence. Scotland, birthplace of William Wallace and Robert
the Bruce, two huge and heroic icons of Freedom, may now have every one of its
citizens registered, monitored and controlled like prisoners.
Last week we covered in depth how the ID card is a
trojan Horse for the
wider reaching database state. Just as in England and Wales,
Scottish citizens already have every aspect of their lives recorded onto
several different databases. The components have already been introduced by
stealth, now all that remains is to link them together into one massive
central database hub.
Once again we can see how the ID card and the
accompanying database can record, track and control our lives, but how can it
prevent terrorism? No explanation has been given as to what it will do to
achieve this.
In fact, the British government has even admitted that
the card
will not prevent terrorism.Nor will it keep us safe
from
fraud and identity theft. These things do not add up, the system
is sold on security but it is really all about controlling the masses.
The funding for the ID agenda will be provided by
selling our biometric and personal information to big business
market research and promotions companies. Furthermore, we will not have access
to our information, but the
intelligence services and governments that are hell bent on
waging illegal wars in our names will.
About 100 nations now have identity cards of some kind.
The agenda to record and trace everyone is truly global and more nations are
falling into the system. We don't need cards to be "entitled" to the freedoms
we have earned as citizens.
I intend to leave my own country as soon as I am told I
must register on the database and carry a card, but how long before there is
no where free left to go? How long will it be before every US citizen is
registered on an ID database? How long will it be before we truly are a prison
planet?
China to Buy 3 Billion Tags - Monday, March 13 2006
"By 2009 nearly 3 billion RFID tags will have been shipped into China, a
country of about 1.4 billion people, according to market forecast company
In-Stat. The company said that 100 million RFID shipped into China in 2005 and
the flow will increase in subsequent years.
The major application for the RFID tags would be for the identification of
humans by way of China's second-generation resident ID card program, said
In-Stat (Scottsdale, Ariz.). The shipments could easily be worth billions of
dollars, according to price estimates from the firm."
Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia - November 10, 2005, 09:45 GMT
The growing need for fast, accurate verification of personal identities has
prompted a call from an industry observer for a global agency to set
international standards.
The realm of identity and access management (IAM) is heating up as
nations like the UK and the US increase their use of biometrics and other
identifying technology in ID cards, border controls and other areas.
Beyond different governments "trying to create a mosaic for what they want
as good identity management", wider international cooperation is needed to
establish a common language and standards, said Cal Slemp, vice-president and
global leader for security and privacy services at IBM Global Services. The
common language for exchanging user access information is also known as
federated IAM.
"Governments have a huge part to play in this, because they have ultimate
responsibility for their citizens, and depending on the country, they may have
ultimate responsibility for the businesses and e-commerce as well," Slemp
said. But, current efforts are piecemeal and much more can be done to exploit
the potential of the federated environment, added Slemp. During a medical
emergency, for instance, the identities of a foreign doctor and a visiting
patient need to be established quickly and accurately, in order for the right
healthcare to be administered.
What's missing right now, he noted, is a trusted third party to
authenticate trustworthiness. "So we've got inconsistent and incomplete
implementation [in individual countries], and also no standard approach to the
future nor a target to shoot at."
Slemp believes that now is the right time to establish a global body that
will consider the interests of all countries and build up a foundation, which
the individual countries can expand upon to fulfil their unique requirements.
"There are organisations that work together on this issue and issues like that
across borders all the time, and it can be as grandiose as to say the UN has a
process in place to share information like that and create working groups to
try and to create standards or expectations and across multiple
jurisdictions," said Slemp. "I just don't know what the name would be."
GENEVA (AP) -- A Swiss court has cleared the way for Gypsies to sue IBM over
allegations that the computer company's expertise helped the Nazis commit
mass murder more efficiently, the plaintiffs' lawyer said Tuesday.
Frame that dollar bill; if Visa and MasterCard have
their way, it'll soon be an antique. The credit card giants say they're moving
closer to gaining acceptance in the United States for radio frequency
identification-enabled "contactless" payment devices that can be waived near a
sensor rather than swiped through a card reader. Visa Thursday even introduced
a mini version of its device, about half the size of a conventional credit
card.
Radio-frequency tags have been a hit with drivers for
the past decade, using them at Mobil gas stations and at tollbooths, but U.S.
businesses have been slower to invest in the infrastructure needed to
implement the technology in retail settings. Visa is trying to change that
mind-set, and in December launched a pilot program at Atlanta's Philips arena,
home of the NBA's Hawks and the NHL's Thrashers, to prove the efficiency of
contactless payment when crowds gather at concession stands.
Season ticket holders with Chase-issued Visa credit
accounts and Cingular wireless accounts can make contactless payments at
concession stands throughout the arena using near-frequency
communication-enabled Nokia 3220 cell phones. Pilot testers wave the phone
within an inch or two of a radio-frequency reader without the need for a PIN
or a signature. In the arena setting, merchants feel they can make more money
because their workers can spend more time helping customers and less time
handling money.
Alton Towers is introducing a radio frequency
identification (RFID) system to allow visitors to
have their day at the theme park recorded on personalised souvenir DVDs.
The YourDay in the Park video-capture system will use
RFID bracelets to identify wearers, who will be captured on cameras stationed
at key rides and attractions around the site.
The video clips will be routed, catalogued and
digitally stored in DVD format, for customers to retrieve later in the day.
The DVDs will contain up to 30 minutes of stock and
personalised footage.
YourDay Video Technologies is working with Venue
Solutions and Sony Professional Solutions Europe to create the system, which
will come into use at Alton Towers in April 2007.
Andy Davies, commercial services director at Alton
Towers, says initial research suggests take-up will be high.
‘We will have 80 to 100 cameras in the first instance
to help capture and compile a record of a visitor’s day,’ he said.
‘Eighty-four per cent of visitors we asked had a
positive impression of the service.’
Davies believes visitors will not be overly concerned
about the invasion of privacy implications of wearing the bracelets.
‘We will not force the bracelets onto people and the
cameras will be unobtrusive, so they will not feel like they are being
watched,’ he said.
Davies is confident that the system will be able to
cope with high demand.
‘At peak times the park has up to 30,000 visitors every
day. We won’t achieve 100 per cent take-up of the bracelets, but the system
will be capable of high volumes of processing.
‘It will be able to compile and burn a DVD in minutes,
so visitors can pick them up when they leave,’ he said.
Technology requirements will be defined over the next
three months. How the bracelets will be given out is not yet decided.
‘A big challenge is distributing the bracelets,’ said
Davies. ‘We will look at the cost of giving out thousands of bracelets weighed
up against making sure people are aware of the service.’
The Sony video cameras will also be used for security
purposes, to help tackle vandalism and prevent break-ins.
Belgian scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven have embedded an RFID
chip into a tooth to show how detailed personal information can be stored.
Patrick Thevissen and his team adapted a tag which vets already implant into
animals. If you lose your chipped dog, vets can retrieve the pet's home
address from the device
In the case of humans, however, the intention of the ID tag is to allow
forensic teams to retrieve a person's name, nationality, date of birth and
gender allowing identification after, say, a natural disaster.
Experiments show that the tags withstand temperature changes of up to 450
°C - so they're pretty well vindaloo-proof - but repeated expansion and
contraction of the tooth is still a problem, requiring the use of an
insulating layer.
The Department of Defense said Thursday it intends to
move forward on plans to use active radio frequency identification (RFID)
technology to support collaborative military coalition operations with 24
countries. The partner list was made final late last month.
The group, including Japan, South Korea, Australia,
Switzerland and North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) country members will
use consistent standards to share information based on International
Organization for Standards (ISO) data formats.
Final details are being hashed out and closely defined
among the group, but at the AIM Global conference in Newport Beach, Calif.,
Dan Kimball, lead technical advisor for the Department of Defense Logistics
AIT Office, said the government agency has received letters of intent from the
24 nations that intend to participate.
The goal to share information and create
interoperability between nations hasn't been an easy task. "Herding kittens is
sometimes easier than getting something like this done," Kimball said.
"Clearly the most difficult problem we have is language."
The tag data routing code stored at the beginning of
the active RFID tag, which requires a power source to transmit the data
signal, will identify the country of origin. Coalition members have agreed to
transmit securely via the Web the tag number and when and where it was read.
Kimball said unless someone has access to the host nation's database that
connects the tag number with the manifest.
While the Department of Defense embeds the entire
manifest on the tag, the NATO countries do not. Kimball said each country
participant will control the amount of information on the tag.
Big Brother can't wait to ID us all
The battle over national identity cards is brewing on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The governments of Britain and the United States, knee-jerking to pandered
fears of terrorism, apparently can't wait to have every man, woman and child
carrying what essentially is a crowd-control device writ large.
Big Brother would prefer you look upon such a mandated system as most
fatherly and protective. Proponents of the "National ID Card" would have such a
document contain not only your photograph but fingerprints, retina scans and as
much personal and background information on you as that little black strip on
the back can contain.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is especially enamored of the picture,
retina scan and fingerprints modems.
So much for political candidates' claim of reducing the influence of
government in our lives while living our freedoms unfettered.
Here's the catch: Republicans and Democrats are touting the Orwellian
proposal as the American worker registry -- which effectively puts us all name,
blood type, and no doubt, sexual preference, somewhere in that big computer
accessible only to government and law enforcement.
It's another inch-like move to a police state -- and giving the government
control over whether or not an employer can hire a new worker.
The card -- which supposedly would replace your passport, Social Security
card, Medicare card, while containing information on any organizations of which
you are a member -- is in your best interests.
Think personal safety, protection of the "Homeland" and, of course, illegal
immigration. The card is the logical next step following Congress' panic
creation of the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11.
Fast forward to 2006: Britain's House of Commons approved a bill requiring
all residents "to carry a government issued identity that would include
biometrics such as a scanned fingerprint or a digital iris image," according to
the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Web site. This despite warnings from
the London School of Economics that the scheme "will be costly, inefficent, and
easily subverted."
While similar legislation here failed to create a national ID in 1999,
Congress rectified that error last year with its REAL ID Act of 2005. That
mandates federal requirements for driver licenses.
Critics claim that once states comply with those requirements, a driver's
license would be a de facto national ID document.
It hasn't reached that level yet. But all it takes is a major terrorist scare
and a panicky Congress to amend the 2005 act and make a National ID Card a
reality.
Face recognition suddenly becomes of vital interest to alleged "Canadian government", even though the law is clear, and has remained unchanged for decades. Are they protecting upcoming face recognition ID from legal precedent?
Despite
the
various privacy concerns that have been repeatedly raised in regards to
e-passports, the US is going ahead with
their plans to launch the system this Monday. Not all
newly-issued passports will be RFID-enabled, since mass production
has been held up by the ongoing legal dispute over the technology.
The first passports to be issued will be those produced during the
pilot run of the project, but the full roll-out should be completed
in about a year. Including the extra $12 security surcharge slapped
onto passports last year...
Darpa
has been set up to collect all the electronic information on everybody in the
world including mobile phone communication, credit card transactions, emails
etc.
