Spychips (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Katherine Albrecht: Add a description of this character.
• Liz Mcintyre
• Jimmy
• Kevin Ashton
• Edna
• John
• Calvin Klein
• Lev
• Rostain
• Bob

Quotes edit see section history

• “We all want progress . . . but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man . . . . We are on the wrong road. And if that is so, we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”

  C. S. Lewis

• “Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely.”

  R. J. Rummel

• “Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? <Who will watch the watchers?>”

  Juvenal, Sixth Satire first century A.D.

• “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

  Frederick Douglass

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• the RFID Right to Know Act, that requires disclosure if a product contains an RFID tag.

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• On May 3, 2001, IBM inventors filed patent application #20020165758, IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF PERSONS USING RFID-TAGGED ITEMS.

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• Gillette was also caught tagging packages of Mach3 razor blades with some of the 500 million (that’s half a billion!) RFID chips it put on order in early 2003.

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• RFID will have a pervasive impact on every aspect of civilization,much the same way the printing press, the industrial revolution and the Internet and personal computers have transformed society.

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• Radio frequency identification, RFID for short, is a technology that uses tiny computer chips—some smaller than a grain of sand—to track items at a distance.

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• spychips in U.S. passports so citizens can be tracked as they move about airport terminals and cross international borders.

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• to infest the entire physical infrastructure of the planet with a spray-on global blanket of Internet interactivity.

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• near total omniscience and control over every aspect of society.

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• In the RFID world, scanning trash could be as simple as driving down the street with a car-mounted reader on trash day.

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• use RFID to track people, we will prove they are not only considering it, they’ve done it.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Germany
• United States
• America
• California
• Texas
• New York
• England
• Mexico
• Houston
• Rheinberg
• China
• Illinois
• Uk

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Katherine Albrecht (Author)
2. Liz McIntyre

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 323.4482

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Professional & Technical › Engineering › Telecommunications › Radio & Wireless
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science
• Books › Science › Technology › Social Aspects
• Books › Law › Constitutional Law › Human Rights
• Books › Nonfiction › Current Events › Conspiracy Theories
• Books › Nonfiction › Current Events › Civil Rights & Liberties
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics