Well one comes wire-tapping, which i saw a thread on already. Then another is RFID chips. RFID chips are Radio Frequence Identification chips. The government is planning to implant these RFID chips into every human being in the United States. Without this chip, you won't be able to do a lot, because this chip acts like a microphone basically. It works through satellite and that's how it stays on and functions. The government will be able to hear every work you are saying with this RFID chip..

watch a quick 4:30 minute video on it.

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/169

Isn't the government violating the constitution as it is with wire-tapping? Aren't the RFID chips violating our right of privacy under Due Process?

I've heard a little about it in the past, but the idea that the "government is planning on using them" is a little into "Tin-foil hat" country. This would never get the support nor consent to have it, especially from the far right, of whom some view it as "The Mark of the Beast."

Would you mind citing your authoritative sources on this? Or any legislation currently in the works which I could review? Danka.

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http://www.epic.org/privacy/rfid/

All that site does is show a few good uses of RFID chips, give some vague sources that say that yes, they do in fact exist and companies make them, then talk about commercial uses of the tags. Some of those uses make perfect sense to me.

I don't see where it says the government is going to tag people and listen to their conversations.

Actually Washington(The state) has already taken measures to make a RFID version of their drivers Licences so you won't need a passport to go back and forth to Canada.

Indeed. My employers use RFID cards for security. All the employees have one to unlock the front door. For people who work in the office their card also unlocks the door to the office. They plan on putting more of these things in later.

My sincere apologies. I completely mis-interpreted and mis-understood the sites i went to and read. So i guess i'll go and read so more and next time start a topic that actually makes sense.

No worries.

There's not much to worry about from RFID chips. They're relatively easy to block/jam. What you should be worried about are RFID readers. Those things can pick up credit card info and other personal information.

Yeah, I'd seen a TV show about picking up data from RFIDs surreptitiously. Some people demonstrated how to pick up data just by walking into the victim. Also, how one could wreak havok on things like library systems with a simple read-write apparatus.

Agreed. The potential for ID theft is much higher than any other potential hardship from it.

Indeed. Granted RF signals are easy to block, but most people either don't know about RFID readers or don't know how to prevent it from happening to them.

Here's a segment from Aaron Russo's movie "from Freedom to Fascism"

The lady in here is the author of SpyChips, Katherine Albrecht.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=28...m+to+fascism%22

Albrecht also talks about (in the movie) how Hitachi is making these small chips that can be the size of a grain of sand to track items at a distance.

"RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco - and they are already being used to spy on people."

http://www.spychips.com/what-is-rfid.html#

As far as I know RFID chips cannot be used to track things at a distance. They are a sort of high-tech barcode, from what I can tell.

hitachi made a chip that can be read from a foot away.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/337/1/1/