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.
Chips can now be made much smaller and cheaper.
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.
