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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 waiting to happen | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

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Since officials decided to put RFID chips in jewelry for girls and dog-tags for boys in middle school in Celebration, Florida, I’ve been writing about the efficiencies these “radio frequency identification devices” bring to commercial and organizational transactions, while threatening privacy and the security of our personal information. In California, mothers rallied when the school board tried to put chips into childrens’ IDs without consulting parents. The RFID used in our new passports was designed by Walmart and other merchandisers. The information it holds has been scanned from 160 feet away from the device, which is supposed to be readable only within 4 inches of itself. The WaPo reporter doesn’t even touch on the plan to put one of these devices in the ear of every single cow in America, a costly proposition for small farmers, and one the Amish are resisting on religious grounds. When did you get your passport? Are you broadcasting your whereabouts and your personal information without knowing it? Read on.

In February 2005, when the State Department asked for public comment, it got an outcry: Of the 2,335 comments received, 98.5 percent were negative, with 86 percent expressing security or privacy concerns, the department reported in an October 2005 notice in the Federal Register.

Identity theft and “fears that the U.S. Government or other governments would use the chip to track and censor, intimidate or otherwise control or harm them” were of “grave concern,” it noted. Many Americans worried “that the information could be read at distances in excess of 10 feet.”

via Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears – washingtonpost.com.

Read my posts since 2003 on how surveillance is invading our lives via RFID

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Would you have a chip implanted in your body to address a disability? Would you implant one for convenience? If one is not enough, how many are too many? Arphids are not neutral technology though it is easy to miss the point where having one on a credit card morphs into an implant….

We haven’t warmed to the idea yet, but the idea of implanted chips isn’t a totally crazy one. Okay it kinda is, but I mean that it’s just an effort to chip away at the obstacle that stands before us in terms of technological advancement – how do we become more “one” with our technology?

via Arphie the arphid, & a Look into the Future – New Media Research Studio.

Arphie the Arphid, a little comic – New Media Research Studio.