Many paranoid people fear the coming age of RFID chips where ID chips will be implanted in your brain.

The good news is that Belgians have now figured out a way to implant the RFID chips in your tooth. So, the chip may not go in your brain, but in your tooth instead. What a relief.

As recommended by private interests, these meetings between government and private interest will remain closed:

A new advisory committee in the Homeland Security Department is free to disregard a law designed to keep meetings open and proceedings public, according to a departmental notice.

In a somewhat Orwellian manner, the project is justified by underscoring “. . . the importance of making sure our information flows freely and accurately. . .”. Closed meetings between government and private interests are always good for the free flow of information.

This new technology will result in increase security for banks, airports and will have many other uses:

Face recognition technology that could revolutionise security systems worldwide has been developed by computer scientists at Sheffield Hallam University. The new specialist software can produce an exact 3D image of a face within 40 milliseconds.

I found a post on discourse.net about how police are trying to get deleted email from Google (Gmail).

Google has archived usenet newsgroup posts going back to the early 1980s. How long will Google store your deleted email?

In the coming age of RFID it is interesting to be aware of how easily these chips can be hacked.

. . . with the appropriate firmware a cellphone can be modified to attack and kill UHF tags.

I found a post at Analog Medium about a method to deactivate RFID chips. More information can be found here.

RFID chips — the chilling "implanted chip" of the near future — are able to be infected with computer viruses. These computer viruses are able to spread from RFID chip to database, and then to other RFID chips. As RFID tags become more sophisticated, this threat will become even more dangerous. The BBC also is running a story on it.

What will RFID chips be used for?

• Passports — New US Passports will have RFID chips in them.
• Implanted chips — Yes, implanted chips are already here
• Tracking products in stores. — This is already taking place at stores like Tesco.
• Emergency rooms and bars.

55% of people surveyed in Europe are worried about RFID. More about RFID coming soon.

Amazon.com just released a service called S3 which allows you to store your personal data files on their servers. Big brother is watching.

The Justice Department still wants Google’s data. Don’t forget why governements want search engine data.

As mentioned previously, New Jersey has bills in place that would eliminate anonymous online speech. The EFF has a recent news release on it.