1984 Soon ?

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Friday March 03, 2006 00:19

by Tommy Donnellan - Cosantoiri Siochana

Be fearful, be on guard: "Now is the Time of the Assassins". Soon will be time of Total Surveillance, of RFID.

In a deeply alarming Democracy Now interview with Liz McIntyre and Annalee Newitz, a future world of nightmarish aspect, of total intrusion is painted.

"Imagine a world of no more privacy.
"Where your every purchase is monitored and recorded in a database, and your every belonging is numbered. Where someone many states away or perhaps in another country has a record of everything you have ever bought, of everything you have ever owned, of every item of clothing in your closet -- every pair of shoes. What's more, these items can even be tracked remotely.

"Once your every possession is recorded in a database and can be tracked, you can also be tracked and monitored remotely through the things you wear, carry and interact with every day.

"We may be standing on the brink of that terrifying world if global corporations and government agencies have their way. It's the world that Wal-Mart, Target, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, IBM, and even the United States Postal Service want to usher in within the next ten years.

"It's the world of radio frequency identification.

"Radio frequency identification, RFID for short, is a technology that uses tiny computer chips -- some smaller than a grain of sand -- to track items at distance. If the master planners have their way, every object -- from shoes to cars -- will carry one of these tiny computer chips that can be used to spy on you without your knowledge or consent."

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Comments (2 of 2)

Oops ! ...

Fri Mar 03, 2006 03:19

I should have qualified the "Even your garbage will be watching you" remark

"In fact, at the dump they want to have large conveyor devices look through every piece of trash with picker arms, siphon the tag numbers from the items that have been thrown away, and update a database to give a complete history of an item. And, of course, they talk about selling this information to marketers who could then know how long, say, something is kept in someone's pantry, perhaps where items are transported. So, yeah, even your trash will talk if we don't stop it"

(extract from the Democracy Now/Amy Goodman interview of Liz McIntyre and Annalee Newitz).

Even your garbage ...

Fri Mar 03, 2006 02:49

will be watching you !

RFID tag