FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2006
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/orwellian-rfid-airport.html
TSA CONCEPT VIDEO SHOWS FUTURE RFID-ENABLED AIRPORT
Spychips in Passports May be Just the Start, Warn Privacy
Advocates
RFID-laced passports may be just the start of an Orwellian
airport experience, warn privacy advocates and authors
Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre as the nation braces for
a rollout of the controversial technology in passports this
week.
They point to a U.S. Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) concept video created by CompEx Inc. that shows how
citizens can be tracked and monitored throughout an airport
terminal — without their knowledge or consent.
The animated flash clip is posted on the authors' website
at:
http://www.spychips.com/RFIDairport.html
In the video, citizen "Bob" is remotely identified and
tracked via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices as
he enters an airport and navigates to his gate. The video
ends with chilling frames of a government agent
surreptitiously scanning Bob and his belongings as he sits
in the waiting area.
CompEx Inc. President Aram Kovach, who developed the film as
a demo for the TSA, received a U.S. Patent for the idea he
calls "Method for Tracking and Processing Passengers and
their Transported Articles" in November of 2005. According
to company press releases, TSA officials entertained his
ideas twice, once in 2002 and once in 2003, and "offered to
direct CompEx in pursuing a segmented objective within the
guidelines they have set forth."
"This footage raises the specter of Soviet-style government
surveillance creeping onto our free soil," said McIntyre.
"People need to know that our government has actively
considered these disturbing and invasive RFID concepts. With
RFID now appearing in our passports, the threat to our
privacy and civil liberties may be more than theoretical."
"RFID passports will do little to keep us safer," Albrecht
added. "On the contrary, by requiring us to carry RFID tags
in our travel documents, the government is jeopardizing our
personal information while doing little to slow down the bad
guys."
The new passports are vulnerable to hacking and cloning by
criminals. Last week at the Black Hat security conference in
Las Vegas, German researcher Lukas Grunwald showed how
easily a criminal or terrorist could clone RFID tags like
those in U.S. passports using inexpensive and readily
available hardware.
ABOUT "SPYCHIPS"
Liz McIntyre and Katherine Albrecht are the authors of "Spychips:
How Major Corporations Plan to Track your Every Move with
RFID." The book draws on patent documents, corporate source
materials, conference proceedings, and firsthand interviews
to paint a convincing — and frightening — picture of the
consumer privacy threat posed by RFID.
Despite its hundreds of footnotes and academic-level
accuracy, the book remains lively and readable according to
critics, who have called it a "techno-thriller" and "a
masterpiece of technocriticism."
Two days prior to its release in 2005, "Spychips" flew the
top of the Amazon bestseller charts, hitting number one as a
"Mover & Shaker," making its way to the top-ten Nonfiction
bestseller list, and spending weeks as a Current Events
bestseller. In a nod to the book's focus on freedom,
Spychips was awarded the prestigious Lysander Spooner Award
for Advancing the Literature of Liberty and named "the
year's best book on liberty."
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George Orwell's 1984
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/1984.htm
GEORGE W. BUSH USHERING IN
'THE MARK OF THE BEAST'?
RFID CHIPS
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/RFID.htm
3/16/06 George Noory, Coast to Coast
WHAT IS RFID?
http://www.spychips.com/what-is-rfid.html
Govt. Tracking: RFID & NAIS
Consumer privacy expert Katherine Albrecht, joined by
activists Pat Showalter and Celeste Bishop in hour two,
spoke out against the National Animal Identification System
(NAIS), a USDA plan to track farm animals using RFID chips.
Showalter and Bishop, who both own animals in a small scale,
non-commercial capacity, said the new regulations are very
burdensome for small farmers. For instance, the "Premises
Identification" part of the plan requires owners to report
any movements or visitors of the animals, even in the case
of a few chickens and goats. The cost and time for such
monitoring is prohibitive and also an invasion of their
privacy, they argued.
Technology is being used to clamp down and control food in
general, said Albrecht, who compared the NAIS plan to the
tracking done with grocery loyalty cards, and the efforts to
restrict farmers' rights to seeds. In regards to the NAIS,
she hoped that small farmers will refuse to comply with the
plan, as she believes it does nothing to make the food
supply safer (the stated goal of the program), and it
discourages self-sufficiency.
Further, the RFID chips, used to track the animals, and
recently introduced in passports, are susceptible to hackers
who can infect large databases with malicious viruses, she
pointed out. The bigger picture is that the government is
seeking a top down control of the populace on a global
level, and there is "a move afoot to number everything and
everyone," said Albrecht. However, she finds that US
citizens are more prone to resisting these efforts than
Europeans, and that the NAIS may be the issue that wakes
people up.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/03/15.html#recap
http://www.nocards.org/
Audios:
#1
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A001I06031523045300550-rfid1.MP3
(4.20MB) 6Min 11 Sec
#2
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A001I06031523045300550-rfid2.MP3
(4.28MB) 6Min 13 Sec
#3
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A002I06031523555700550-rfid3.MP3
(4.56MB) 6Min 37 Sec
#4
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A003I06031601051000550-rfid4.MP3
(4.42MB) 6Min 25 Sec
#5
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A002I06031523555700550-rfid5.MP3
(4.55MB) 6Min 37 Sec
#6
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A003I06031601051000550-rfid6.MP3
(4.60MB) 6Min 41 Sec
#7
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A003I06031601051000550-rfid7.MP3
(5.81MB) 8Min 26 Sec
#8
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A003I06031601051000550-rfid8.MP3
(3.10MB) 4Min 29 Sec
#9
http://www.apfn.net/audio/A004I06031602453700550-rfid9.MP3
(4.34MB) 18Min 58 Sec
05/19/06 Coast to Coast with George Noory re: Katherine
Albrecht RFID Spy Chips
Audios:
#1.
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/A001I060519-coast2coast-RFID1.MP3
(9.79MB)
#2.
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/A002I060519-coast2coast-RFID2.MP3
(6.43MB)
