Source: Rice University Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass. Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, have come up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in [...]
New RFID tech tracks you to the tomb Source: Boston Globe – Mark Baard A new product, the RosettaStone (www.personalrosettastone.com), guarantees that RFID will follow you straight to your grave. The RosettaStone is a palm-size stone tablet representing the deceased. It bears an RFID tag that communicates with mobile phones — directing users to an [...]
Germany Shows Off New High-Tech Biometric ID Cards The complex overall system for managing the mandatory card and its contactless chip is on display at CeBIT 2010. The card has three functions: 1. biometric identity verification, 2. electronic identity verification, 3. authenticated electronic signature.
Source: Raw Story Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker’s concern that the chips will prove to be the Antichrist’s “mark of the beast.” On Wednesday, Virginia’s House of Delegates passed a bill that forbids [...]
Source: Lake Land Times With key sections of the U.S. Patriot Act set to expire Dec. 31, the Obama administration – essentially tiptoeing through the corridors of Congress and using the raucous health care debate as cover – has quietly maneuvered for renewal of the controversial provisions, which he opposed as a senator. Perhaps the [...]
Source: BNet Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security [...]
Jim Harper c/o Cato Institute Some state governments have claimed that a pending compliance deadline for REAL ID requires them to tighten up their driver’s licensing procedures consistent with the 2005 national ID law. (But see this.) In fact, REAL ID is dead and the deadline is fake. More than a dozen states have statutorily [...]
Last week, the governor of Arizona signed H.B. 2426, which bars the state from implementing the “enhanced” drivers license (EDL) program. If the federal REAL ID revival bill (PASS ID) becomes law, it will give congressional approval to EDLs, which up to now have been simply a creation of the federal security and state driver [...]
The Senate Homeland Secuirty Committee hearing this Wednesday on “Reevaluating the REAL ID Act” was a sham, in which the only”opponents” or “critics” of the current REAL-ID law allowed to testify were those who prefer the PASS-ID bill to substitute an alternate national ID card mandate. Critics of any national ID need not apply to [...]
By Tom Burghardt – BLN Contributing Writer What Pentagon theorists describe as a “Revolution in Military Affairs” (RMA) leverages information technology to facilitate (so they allege) command decision-making processes and mission effectiveness, i.e. the waging of aggressive wars of conquest. It is assumed that U.S. technological preeminence, referred to euphemistically by Airforce Magazine as “compressing [...]
by Henry Lamb, Feb. 18, 2009 Hidden well behind the spectacular pomp and historic circumstance of inauguration week, the wheels of government continued the relentless grind, oblivious only to the party in power at the moment. From deep within the bureaucracy, the USDA moved closer to taking control over every livestock animal and the land [...]
February 10, 2009 By: Freedom Fighter Congratulations! With your help Virginians had a Real ID Act victory last week, as both anti Real ID bills – H.B.1587 & S.B.1431 – were reported, unchanged, out of the House & Senate Transportation Committees. This means these committees heard you! But the battle is not over. We must [...]
New categories of individuals under the purview of state “counterterrorism” investigations FBI’s Analytical Lexicon Lowers the Bar Do you “pal around with terrorists”? Are you a “radical” or express views that the government considers “extremist”? On October 28, the whistleblowing website Cryptome published the FBI Directorate of Intelligence: Counterterrorism Division’s Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon. This eye-opening [...]
“Since 9/11, our Constitutional rights have been systematically dismantled: USA Patriot Act – A 342 page document presented to Congress one day before voting on it that allows the government access to your bank and email accounts, as well as your medical and phone records with no court order. They can also search your home [...]
