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PRIVATE EYE: Good-bye Privacy (or is it just the "Mark of the Beast"?)
Geek.com has an article about FDA approval of an RFID chip to implant in humans. The chip is the size of a grain of rice and would have a unique id that health care specialist would use to access your medical history. Just imagine where ever you go in the world, a doctor can access your medical history (provided they have Internet access and a the VeriChip scanner).
My concern is that anyone with a scanner can get your identifer and then you can be tracked.
EXAMPLE: The cash register scans you and now has a unique identifer for the person making a purchase, once you pay with a check or card the identifer can now be tied to a name. But not to worry, they would never share or sell that info would they? Suddenly every business installs scanners at the doorways and whenever you enter they know who you are, where you live, what your credit rating is, yada yada yada...
A few years back people raised a stink over the Pentium chip having a unique ID that could be accessed by third parties including websites. After a big stink Intel disabled the identifer. Now instead of the computer being ID’d lets install one in each person. Remember the Pentium ID outrage was not aimed at the companies collecting the Pentium ID but at Intel for providing it.
What is needed is an RFID that is normally "off" until the user ALLOWS it to be read. Is this the "Mark of the Beast"? I don’t think so, but it is curious that such a thing (identifier) was foretold 2000 years ago.
Geek.com has an article about FDA approval of an RFID chip to implant in humans. The chip is the size of a grain of rice and would have a unique id that health care specialist would use to access your medical history. Just imagine where ever you go in the world, a doctor can access your medical history (provided they have Internet access and a the VeriChip scanner).
My concern is that anyone with a scanner can get your identifer and then you can be tracked.
EXAMPLE: The cash register scans you and now has a unique identifer for the person making a purchase, once you pay with a check or card the identifer can now be tied to a name. But not to worry, they would never share or sell that info would they? Suddenly every business installs scanners at the doorways and whenever you enter they know who you are, where you live, what your credit rating is, yada yada yada...
A few years back people raised a stink over the Pentium chip having a unique ID that could be accessed by third parties including websites. After a big stink Intel disabled the identifer. Now instead of the computer being ID’d lets install one in each person. Remember the Pentium ID outrage was not aimed at the companies collecting the Pentium ID but at Intel for providing it.
What is needed is an RFID that is normally "off" until the user ALLOWS it to be read. Is this the "Mark of the Beast"? I don’t think so, but it is curious that such a thing (identifier) was foretold 2000 years ago.
posted by Quinqube at 14:17
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