The Microchip Verichip

AJ

How can people tap into a wireless cloud?
By Marsha Walton,
CNN Sci Tech, July 31

2002 ATHENS, Georgia (CNN)
Applications for a wireless "cloud" may not seem obvious at first, but organizers of the high tech project in Athens, Georgia, say there are many ways in which it can be used.

The University of Georgia has joined with local government to create WAG, the Wireless Athens Group. They're building a cloud over several blocks of the downtown area where anyone with the right equipment can have free Internet access.

The cloud now covers about three blocks, and it will soon expand to 24. CNN's Marsha Walton looks into how users can tap into it.

* Sports, University of Georgia students already have successfully tested some options ... They used wireless technology to provide instant replays on personal digital assistants (PDAs) at a recent college baseball game. for the really devoted (or lazy) fan, students have come up with a prototype for this possibility: Beam your beer and snack order directly to a computer at the concession stand, punch in your seat number, and the food will be delivered. You never have to miss a pitch, a hit, or an argument with the umpire.

* Music, On any given night in this college town, 40 bands might be taking the stage at local bars and coffee houses. For a student unfamiliar with most of the performers, and unwilling to part with a $3 cover charge for music he or she doesn't like, the wireless "cloud" could provide a chance to sample a song or two from some of these bands.

* Retail, People walking out of class or an office and in a rush for lunch could pull up a menu from a local restaurant, place an order, even pay online via their PDA. By the time they walked a few blocks to the cafe, their food would be ready to go.

* World market, A wireless cloud in central or south America could empower people who have little access to telecommunications infrastructure now ... (customers will) be able to communicate at a very cheap rate."

However, this technology has a very dark lining. This same "Wireless Cloud" hovering over a city can also communicate with, and control, MMEA chips implanted in people! Conceivably, RF transmissions from this cloud could cause everyone in whom this chip is implanted to feel euphoria, depression, or any other emotion at the same time, totally at the will of the people controlling the BMI software. If the controllers wanted to sedate the entire population, they could easily do so. If they wanted to implant thoughts in the minds of the people, they conceivably can implant them.

Cheap Technology Even Third World Nations Can Deploy

The Reason that wireless transmission is so cheap is that there is very little hardware to install. All the hardware that is needed is a telecom link to a city; this can be done via Satellite or Land Line Links. From this, all you need to install is an RF transmitter and receiver on the tallest building in the City. Anyone with the proper RF equipment would have constant internet access.

Most remote locations in the Third World are all currently running via RF and Satellite uplinks; in most of these areas, existing phone lines are turn of the Century Era Pulse. There are no Coin Digital Lines in many of these places, so most people are using RF in some form for internet access and mobile phones for voice communication; it is very doubtful they will ever run land lines again.

In this manner, Third World Nations seem further along in this particular area than people in more advanced nations. RF is becoming day to day use throughout the entire world. and we now see it more and more in day to day use... Walkie talkies, mobile phones, blue tooth, wireless internet, European and UK Passports etc.

AJ

More on Verichip

1999
Soon after the 'public' announcement from Digital soloutions back in 1999 that they were developing and intended to market an RFID tracking device to be implanted in humans there was a general public distaste and opposition to the news.

2001
Due to this public distaste, Digital Soloution announced they are no longer interested in pursuing implantable human chips. Instead, they would settle with tags.

2006
The Verichip is going strong, with thousands of impantee's accross the world and growing. Many medical institutions and surgeons have accepted the system to implant into their patients, and it's even growing ever more popular with nightclubs and bars.
How opinions change?

AJ

Tiny human borne monitoring device sparks privacy fears

December 20, 1999
By Richard Stenger
CNN Interactive Writer

WASHINGTON (CNN) A Palm Beach, Florida based telecommunications company has developed a miniature digital monitoring device that can be implanted in people, intended to assist in locating missing children or for monitoring the heart rate of at risk patients.

But electronic freedom activists are concerned about exploitation of the technology, which would use global positioning system (GPS) technology to track implantees.

"It sounds dreadful. That's about as bad as it gets," Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said Monday.

Applied Digital Solutions announced last week it had acquired patent rights to develop the unique transceiver, which would be powered by muscle movements of implantees. The company plans to complete a working prototype by the end of 2000.

Planted inconspicuously just under the skin, the implantable transceiver sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS technology. The company expects applications in the fields of law enforcement, security and medicine.

According to ADS, a company with an Internet and e commerce focus, the devise could track lost hikers, abducted children and "military, diplomatic and other essential government personnel."

It can also identify individuals for e business security and check certain biological functions and alert a monitoring facility if it detects a medical emergency.

"We believe its potential for improving individual and e business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless," said ADS Chairman and CEO Richard Sullivan in a statement.

Fearing that "virtually limitless" potential, critics contend that monitoring systems wind up being used for other than the original purposes.

"Over the years we moved from fingerprinting convicts to routinely footprinting infants in hospitals," Rotenberg said.

He worries that this new surveillance technology could eventually restrict freedoms of the general public.

"I think the use of implants for tracking is crossing into a new territory," Rotenberg said. "It gets us closer to an Orwellian '1984.'"

Patent documents refer to the device as a "personal tracking and recovery system." But ADS said the device, named the Digital Angel, could also have non human applications. For example, it could be secretly hidden on or in valuable personal belongings and works of art.

ADS said the technology could "tap into a vast global market" that is expected to eventually exceed $100 billion.

Source, CNN (http://archives.cnn.com/1999/TECH/ptech/12/20/implant.device/)

AJ

A few points to bear in mind...

When a person is implanted with a verichip, the following is what he or she is subjected to. These are all facts under no dispute, and can all be referenced from material and links in this thread.

The Facts

An implantable chip is fairly simple to implant, however it is very difficult and messy to remove.
An implantable chip cannot be simply removed or de activated by the implantee.

Verichip contains all your personal information, with the ability to transmit it to anyone with a simple reader, it can also be read no matter where you are, or what you are doing.

The sytem is also wide open to hackers, this has been demonstrated here

VERICHIP IS HERE! It's not under development, or in trials, it is here, and in wide use.

Many in the medical industry have taken it on, employees are chipping their staff, government bodies are trying to sneak RFID into ID legislation, and on top of this verichip are applying more and more aggressive and intellectual promotion, it's even taking off with nightclubs.

Parents and Civil Liberties Groups Urge School District to Terminate Use of Tracking Devices

San Francisco
Parents in a northern California public school district and civil liberties groups are urging a school district to terminate the mandatory use of Radio Frequency Identification tags ( RFIDs ) by students. Several civil liberties groups, including the ACLU of Northern California ( ACLU NC ), Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ), and the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) sent a letter today expressing alarm at the Brittan School District's use of mandatory ID badges that include a RFID device that tracks the students' movements.

The device transmits private information to a computer on campus whenever a student passes under one of the scanners. The ID badges also include the student's name, photo, grade, school name, class year and the four digit school ID number. Students are required to prominently display the badges by wearing them around the neck at all times.

"Forcing my child to be tracked with a RFID device, without our consent or knowledge, is a complete invasion of our privacy," said Michael and Dawn Cantrall. "Our 7th grader came home wearing the ID badge prominently displayed around her neck, if a predator wanted to target my child, the mandatory school ID card has just made that task easier." The Cantralls filed a formal complaint against the Brittan Elementary School Board in Sutter, California on January 30th after meeting with several school officials.

In a letter dated February 7, sent to the Brittan Board of Trustees, the civil liberties groups "urge the school board to recognize the serious safety and civil liberties implications" and call the for the School Board to "terminate this ill advised test immediately."

"We are sending the letter today because a School Board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night and we want to make sure that the District reconsiders the issue," said Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director of the ACLU NC. "RFID technology is inappropriate for use in schools. The badges jeopardize the safety and security of children by broadcasting identity and location information to anyone with a chip reader and subjects students to demeaning tracking of their movements."

"The monitoring of children with RFID tags is comparable to the tracking of cattle, shipment pallets, or very dangerous criminals in high security prisons. Compelling children to be constantly tracked with RFID trackable identity badges breaches their right to privacy and dignity as human beings. Forcing children to wear badges around their necks displaying such sensitive information as their name, picture, grade and school exposes them to potential discrimination since the name of their school may disclose their religious beliefs or social class," said Cedric Laurant, Policy Counsel with EPIC.

Jeffrey and Michele Tatro, parents of a thirteen year old student at Brittan Elementary School, added: "It is our goal that no child in the United States be tagged or tracked. We want it to be stopped here, in Sutter California, and we don't want any child to be tracked anywhere. Our children are not pieces of inventory."

"It is dehumanizing to force these children to wear RFIDs, and their parents are rightfully outraged," said Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Lee Tien. "We are doing everything we can to support the parents in this fight to protect student privacy."

ImSoTru

yes i believe that everyone will have to take that chip or die in the near future.Like 10 years or so, were gettin closer look at oyster cards, id cards an wateva that chip is coming soon, but there is so much more to it than just tracking people. The government are on it..too tired to explain now tho

ImSoTru

This Ish Is Deep!! Y Aint No1 Replying To This! This Is Gonna Affect Us All,