Dave, Many of us who are concerned about the potential abuse of RFID systems have long suspected that some "low status" class of individuals would be the first to find itself subjected to RFID chip implants under government edict, after which the range of included persons would gradually expand to cover more and more of the general population. These chips in their present form cannot be controlled by the implanted individual, and so are subject to interrogation at any time with or without the knowledge of the "chipee." I've speculated in the past that persons convicted of sex crimes might be among the likely initial targets by the proponents of this technology, possibly as a requirement for parole. However, it appears that VeriChip (the main player in the human RFID implant space) may have their sights on a significantly larger demographic. VeriChip's chairman was on Fox News last Tuesday promoting the concept of "chipping" immigrants, "guest workers," and the like. Here's the transcript: http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/silverman-foxnews.html Hold out your arm -- this won't hurt a bit, eh? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]