Posted on April 15, 2008 by Mark Baard
Whew, “no worries,” Aussies. You are in good hands.
Not even you will be trusted with the spychip reports on your recycling compliance. Australian Broadcasting reports that only your government and a big fat contractor will know. (Photo: ABC News.)
Bin Brother is watching you - ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
By Karen Barlow
Posted Mon Apr 14, [...]
Filed under: Big Brother, Privacy, RFID, Surveillance, Ubiquitous computing | Tagged: australia, databases, law, Privacy, recycling, RFID, spychips, Surveillance | 6 Comments »
Posted on March 28, 2008 by Mark Baard
Impinj, an RFID chip maker with a provocative name has developed a new chip that requires very little energy to be activated by a remote reader. (Image: from the Impinj website.)
The chip, called Monza, has a read range 40 percent greater than most currently used to track people and consumer goods
In other words, Monza chips [...]
Filed under: Handhelds, Location, Monitoring, Privacy, RFID, Surveillance, security, technology | Tagged: Handhelds, Homeland Security, impinj, Privacy, RFID, security, technology | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 3, 2008 by Mark Baard
The International Herald Tribune reports that European retailers such as Metro take RFID privacy issues seriously. The article also notes that privacy rights activists have been receptive to some of the retailers’ ideas.
But the article also mentions, briefly (excerpt, below), that schoolgirl uniforms will still be tagged (no “opt-in” RFID scheme for kids), because [...]
Filed under: Ambient intelligence, Brain chips, Globalism, Government, Location, Privacy, RFID, Surveillance, Ubiquitous computing, Wearable computing, mark of the beast, security | Tagged: europe, Privacy, RFID, security | 2 Comments »
