Category: Radio-frequency identification
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Imagine Embedding RFID Chips in Soldiers: Medicine or Surveillance?
An update from Katherine Albrecht who writes about threats and dangers from what she calls “spy chips” or RFID chips. This one has a basis in a government report from DARPA. The possible pro: doctors could use a chip that was embedded in soldier’s body to monitor vital signs and track illness, etc. The possible…
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RFID Chips to Enable our Bodies to “Call Home” in Emergencies
In research published in the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Taiwanese researchers postulate that the tags could help save lives in the aftermath of a major earthquake. “Office workers would have their identity badges embedded in their RFID tags, while visitors would be given temporary RFID tags when they enter the lobby,” they…
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Move to Add RFID to Student IDs Pushes Students to form Privacy Group on Facebook
Image via Wikipedia Arphid Watch: class attendance | Beyond The Beyond. Okay, this story is like “bingo.” It is news from Arizona, where we now expect extreme authoritarianism. It has RFID used to track individuals as Northern Arizona University wants to stick a chip into student IDs so their attendance can be tracked. But are…
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Carbon nanotube RFID labels possibly toxic, just what environment needs now
Beyond The Beyond Just another WordPress weblog Arphid Watch: carbon nanotube RFID labels * By Bruce Sterling Email Author * March 27, 2010 | * 12:52 pm | * Categories: Arphid Watch *At last: cheap throwaway possibly toxic tracking labels that are both “arphids” and “buckyjunk” at the same time. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24852/?nlid=2850&a=f via Arphid Watch: carbon…
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Security is just an implanted RFID away
YouTube – HERE IS THE RFID MICROCHIP TV ADVERT 100% PROOF IT IS HERE.
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Not in my Knee…
Image via Wikipedia … the company will embed the tags into knee and hip replacements and use them to alert patients to any product-related concerns. “Prior to shipping prosthetic parts, Implanet embeds an RFID tag with the device model, serial number and latest info enclosed. Prior to surgery, the hospital scans the tag and IBM’s…
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Feds forget they carry RFID cards, get a scare
Image via Wikipedia But despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader. The reader, connected to a web camera, sniffed data from RFID-enabled…
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ZDNet agrees with me RFID passports are Stupid & Risky
Panic + stupid = RFID passports In 9/11’s aftermath panic ruled the nation’s domestic security bureaucracies, Congress and the White House. Paranoid mid-level bureaucrats were given free rein to “innovate” and guess what popped up? RFID tags in your passport. And now they are adding them to driver’s licenses too. via RFID passports: a tragedy…
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Arphid Watch: Implantable GPS “Killer Chip” creates press flap | Beyond The Beyond
Bruce Sterling, in Wired’s ARPHID Watch says: *I’m surprised that Verichip didn’t think to promote this scheme themselves. *People are reacting with predictable shock, shock, (((none more gleefully than io9, presumably because the puckish editor’s got a Verichip in her))) but the “invention” here is dead simple: in principle, it’s an electronic parole device with…
Barbara K Iverson 