The Deparpment of Defence, as well as Wal-Mart and affiliats, will be using radio frequency wireless technology by 1/1/05, and most products and services, will use RFID Tags and Smart Stamps by 2006. I am really worried about privacy issues and security at that time, as well as now! The MATRIX security system will be all over America by the 22nd Century. Nano-technology is planned to be incorperated with RFIDs by the 23rd Century. Nanites and Nano-Tubes combined with RFID technology, could possibly be the worst scenario ever, with the exception of Star Wars like satalite systems and steath bombers equipt with Smart Bombs in the hands of hackers and virus makers. Courtesy of our Government, and the military.
Feel free to be concerned about privacy, a lot of people are for good reason. But what are your sources for the statements you've made? What are the DoD and Wal-Mart programs, and how are they related, if at all? And what's with your predictions for the next two centuries? I agree privacy is being eroded pretty quickly as the world becomes increasingly networked. But if anything can be done to protect our privacy, we must be aware of the specific facts and not deal in vague nightmare scenarios.
You mean like C.A.S.P.I.A.N.? http://www.nocards.org/ - old Website My sources are from an accumulation of searches, over a period of 3 or 4 months. If you wanna know the links, please go to http://www.google.com/, and do your own searching with such keywords as: DoD RFID Wal-Mart RFID "November 2003" MATRIX police VeriChip 666 VeriChip 2003 "Digital Angel" "Mu Chip" "Smart Stamps" "Smart Labels" "Smart Shelves" Wal-Mart Gilette The facts MATRIX will be all over America (as well as Canada, most of Europe, and Asia) by the 22nd Century, and how nano-technology may follow in "Voyager's" footsteps by the 23rd, are not thought of by guesses. Do a few more searches. Wired Magazine and Privacy.org covers most of this, so you should check them out as well. Privacyrights.org has an updated version of the RFID privacy concerns and legal issues. You might want to look at that as well.
DoD RFID Policy Requires Suppliers' Compliance by January 2005 DoD Announces Radio Frequency Identification Policy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 23, 2003. No. 775-03. The Department of Defense announced today the establishment of a Radio Frequency Identification Policy (RFID). RFID technology greatly improves the management of inventory by providing hands-off processing. The equipment quickly accounts for and identifies massive inventories, enhancing the processing of materiel transactions to allow DoD to realign resources and streamline business processes. Implementation of RFID minimizes time spent through the normal means of inventory processing. This technology allows the improvement of data quality, items management, asset visibility, and maintenance of materiel. Further, RFID will enable DoD to improve business functions and facilitate all aspects of the DoD supply chain. The new policy will require suppliers to put passive RFID tags on the lowest possible piece part/case/pallet packaging by January 2005. Acknowledging the impact on DoD suppliers, the department plans to host an RFID Summit for Industry in February 2004. The RFID policy and implementation strategy will be finalized by June 2004. RFID policy and the corresponding RFID tagging/labeling of DoD materiel are applicable to all items except bulk commodities such as sand, gravel or liquids. Contact United States Department of Defense Tel: +1 (703) 697-5131 WWW: http://www.dod.mil/faq/comment.html [Source: http://www.dod.mil/releases/2003/nr20031023-0568.html] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Resources and Readings" http://xml.coverpages.org/rfid.html and "Physical Markup Language (PML) for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)." http://xml.coverpages.org/pml-ons.html http://xml.coverpages.org/DoD-RFID.html ................................................... Link to story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31461.html
I know about it, I read this before, and I'm really scared! Talk about your 1984! Here's that legal statement I was talking about with news about it. http://netscape.com.com/2100-1103_2-5110528.html http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/RFIDposition.htm