A Special Report: Real I.D. Act, RFID Tracking Brings Us A Brave New World, No Privacy and Big Brother
Article #1
Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything people buy, wear, drive and read, enabling retailers and law enforcement agencies to track consumer items-and, by extension, consumers-wherever they go, from a distance.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3899/1/128/
Article #2
The company's battery-powered RFID tags transmit GPS and sensor data via a constellation of low earth orbit satellites, enabling users to know an asset's exact location and status at all times
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3896/1/1/
Article #3
With some creative engineering and brick-building from within its own ranks, a few RFID readers and a couple thousand decals with embedded EPC Gen 2 RFID tags, Bob Jones University (BJU), located in Greenville, S.C., is tracking vehicles as they enter and leave the campus' main parking lot.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3813/1/1/
Article #4
The Real ID Act
At a minimum: name, birth date, sex, ID number, a digital photograph, address, will be included and "scannable" on Real ID cards. Homeland Security may also add additional requirements - such as a fingerprint or retinal scan...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249900,00.html
Article #5
RFID sounds futuristic: A transmitter smaller than a dime embedded in everything from a T-shirt to human skin, communicating data over a short distance to a reading device.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/10/rfid/index.html
Article #6
Starting May 11, Americans living in states that don't comply with new federal regulations could be barred from entering Washington D.C.'s visitor center and collecting the complimentary maps and brochures--unless they happen to bring a U.S. passport or military ID with them.
That not-very-welcoming rule is part of a 2005 law called the Real ID Act, which takes effect in just over three months. It says that driver's licenses from states that have not agreed to Real ID mandates from the Department of Homeland Security, or which have not requested a deadline extension, can no longer be used to access "federal facilities."
http://www.news.com/Federal-buildings-become-Real-ID-zones/2009-1028_3-6229133.html?tag=html.alert.comp
Article #7
instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scanable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/prisoners-to-be-chipped-like-dogs-769977.html
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