PositiveID receives microchip implant order for Israeli Military October 13, 2011 Print Version Source: Marketwatch DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID” or “Company”) PSID +13.33% , a developer of medical technologies for diabetes management, clinical diagnostics and bio-threat detection, announced today that it has received an order for its VeriChip(TM) [...]
Group urges U.S. to adopt electronic ID cards for citizens September 15, 2011 Print Version Source: NextGov As the Obama administration works on a set of voluntary online credentials for American Web surfers, some technologists say the government should examine Estonia’s mandatory electronic identification cards as a model. In the United States, opposition to national [...]
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In the Wake of 9/11: 33 of 50 States Are Actively Spying on Americans September 11, 2011 Print Version Source: Activist Post The weekend of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, has caused many to reflect on the event itself, as well as the decade that we have experienced since. There have indeed been many [...]
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Senate Sneaks RFID Drivers License, Internet ID into Transportation Bill Share | May 4, 2011 Print Version By Adrian Wyllie – Liberty Underground TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday approved an amendment to include “electronic authentication,” as well as “biometrics” to Florida Driver’s licenses. In addition, the amendment [...]
Interpol Chief Calls for Global Electronic Identity Card System Share | Print Version April 6, 2011 Source: Net Security The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management. Speaking at the [...]
Share | Print Version April 5, 2011 Source: Beat The Chip BTC – On March 30th, Florida Sen. Anitre Flores submitted an amendment with high ambitions for Floridian driver identity. The amendment was passed out of the local Transporation Committee in SB 1150 and is now headed for Florida State’s Budget Committee. The Committee Substitute [...]
FBI’s $1 billion Next Generation ID system launched: Fingerprint, iris, VOICE, tattoos, palms, face Published on 03-22-2011 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: WV Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Clarksburg FBI complex is taking part in a $1 billion project that will enable law enforcement agencies to identify criminals and terrorists by physical characteristics [...]
Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May Published on 09-24-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Wired Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO’s [...]
Germany to Roll Out ID cards with Embedded RFID; They Will Also Be Used for Establishing Identity Online Published on 08-23-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Cryptogon Via: International Business Times: The production of the RFID chips, an integral element of the new generation of German identity cards, has started after the government [...]
Source: Information Week The Obama administration is set to propose a new system for authenticating people, organizations and infrastructure on the Web. The online authentication and identity management system would be targeted at the transactional level — for example, when someone logs into their banking website or completes an online e-commerce purchase. Making such a [...]
Source: MiddleTown Transcript Starting July 1, Delaware’s blue and gold drivers’ licenses will change from simple cards with basic information to high-tech pieces of plastic designed to be more secure and harder to forge than anything that’s come before. The new identification cards are designed to comply with federal regulations formulated in the wake of [...]
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Source: BBC Researchers have found that implanted identity chips can pick up computer viruses. Reading University’s Mark Gasson conducted an experiment to show how radio frequency identity (RFID) chips could become electronically infected. He explained to Rory Cellan-Jones the risks involved with the new technology including its effects on medical implants such as pacemakers.
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License to frustrate: Get-tough ID policies could snag all Floridians Published on 05-10-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: FL Sentinel No matter how you feel about illegal immigration, and no matter how much we want to protect ourselves from terrorism, the hellish bureaucratic scenes now unfolding at DMV offices across South Florida serve as a [...]
Broad Coalition Urges President Obama And Congress To Oppose Biometric National ID WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of group sent a letter Tuesday to the White House, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee urging them to oppose a proposal by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) [...]
Source: Threat Level Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another national [...]
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