A group of concerned citizens are protesting the use of RFID tags (which they call “spy chips”) at an authors gala today says Inside Bay Area.
Berkeleyans Organizing for Library Defense will gather in front of the library on Kittredge Street at 6 p.m. as people arrive at the $250-a-plate event, where more than two dozen Bay Area authors are expected, including Mark Danner, Judy Rodgers, Peter Coyote, Mary Roach and Deborah Santana.
The sold-out event, which this year includes dim sum, sushi and high-end vodka martinis, draws an elite crowd and raises thousands of dollars every year for the library.
New(ish) cars?
If these people drive newer cars, the kind with the plastic part at the top of the keys then they have RFID chips on their persons already.
Some cars have gone from the traditional turn the key to start model to have the key with you to start model.
These people need to calm down and face reality. No one is tracking them through their library books, no one is tracking them through their car keys, no one is tracking them through the RFID chips embedded in their pets. Heck I even had one stuck in me for a while as a clinical trial of something designed to help dementia patients.
These are the kind of people who keep the idea that California and particularly the Berkeley area is like a bowl of granola – full of nuts and flakes- alive.
If these BOLD whackos want to really keep their reading habits private and not let anyone know what they were checking out then they would shut up about what they are reading and use self check out which RFID facilitates.
Well no – not injected in their pets
1984 is starting to seem quaint. Though – gotta love that a security company didn’t consider that the device might be skimmed and cloned. I imagine their stock may be severely depressed.
Company requires RFID injection
Peter Laborge 2006-02-10
Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of
a new requirement to access their company’s datacenter.
Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the
policy with the hopes of increasing security in the datacenter where
video surveillance tapes are stored. In the past, employees accessed
the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however
under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag
from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a
release from spychips.com said on Thursday.
Although the company does not require the microchips be implanted to
maintain employment, anyone without one will not be able to access
the datacenter, according to a Register article.
Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent
discovery of Jonathan Westhues, where the security researcher showed
the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant’s
authentication. When contacted, those at CityWatcher were unaware of
the chip’s security issue, according to the spychips.com release.
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