Officials ensure that RFID chips will be used properly
An article titled RFID privacy concerns are global discusses some of the steps officials are supposedly taking to protect us against RFID chips.
"Privacy concerns over the use of radio frequency identification technology aren’t confined to the United States. Officials in Europe and Asia have completed or are developing guidelines and directives to ensure that RFID technology is used properly."
How can hackable, radio-wave transmitting chips that are capable of tracking everything you do be “used properly”? The article continues, talking about the “legitimate” uses of implanting RFID chips in your body:
"Laurant expressed special concerns about a miniaturized RFID device about the size of a grain of rice from a company called VeriChip. The chip is implanted below a person’s skin and contains a unique verification number.
Laurant said the chip could legitimately be used by health officials to obtain information, such as blood type, about an unconscious person and used to treat them. But it could also be used for more controversial applications such implanting them in the arms of soldiers who are on special military missions."
Spychips.com has a press release announcing that the American state of Wisconsin has just banned forced injection of RFID chips.
"Civil libertarians cheered yesterday upon news that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed a law making it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip. Activists and authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre joined the celebration, predicting this move will spell trouble for the VeriChip Corporation, maker of the VeriChip human microchip implant."
It may be hard to imagine that it is legal to require someone to get a radio chip injected into their body, but it has already happened.
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