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VeriChip is a miniaturized radio
frequency identification device (RFID) that can be used
in a variety of security, financial, [commercial ?] emergency
identification and other applications. About the size of a grain
of rice, each VeriChip product contains a unique
verification number and will be available in several
formats, some of which will be insertable under the skin.
The verification number is captured by briefly passing a
proprietary scanner over the VeriChip. A small amount of radio
frequency energy passes from the scanner energizing the dormant
VeriChip, which then emits a radio frequency signal transmitting
the verification number. VeriChip Corporation is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030328/285128_1.html
Compulsory
( NATIONAL ) IDENTITY CARDS
with BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION ..
http://www.4verichip.com/applications.htm
UK
Identity Cards - March 19, 2006
from there to here in no time (REAL ID )
"government is
dividing the nation into suspects and informers."
Under the new law, the pharmacist will
not be able to give you that medicine without proper ID.
So, get your card. It's for your own good"
It became clear last week that the
government will do anything to get this bill through parliament,
including ignoring its own manifesto pledge to make the cards
voluntary, a fact that we should remember as each of us entrusts
the 49 separate pieces of personal information to a national
database........
its sinister data base
Oddly enough, the compulsory provision of
personal information to the government database is not the
greatest threat to our freedom, though it is in itself a
substantial one. The real menace comes when
the ID card scheme begins to track everyone's movements and
transactions, the details of which will kept on the database for
as long as the Home Office desires....
What remains is the ceaseless
monitoring of people's lives. That is what the government is
forcing on us.
Non-existenet
...without dying
One of the most chilling passages in the
bill is section 13 which deals with the 'invalidity
and surrender' of ID cards,
which, in effect, describes the withdrawal of
a person's identity by the state. For,
without this card, it will be almost impossible to function, to
exist as a citizen in the UK. Despite the cost to you, this card
will not be your
property."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1734265,00.html
Britain: Compulsory ID cards for passports -- Feb. 14, 2006
Cards will now be imposed on anyone renewing
their passport -
Home Secretary Charles Clarke admitted the scheme [ Ed:
carrying ID cards] was "designed to eventually become
compulsory". A commitment had also been made to move to
biometric identification in a UN security resolution.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/14/id_card_amendments_reversed/
Australia : National ID cards -- Dec. 26, 2005
Three-quarters [ of Melbourne] said they were happy
to give up some freedoms to ensure greater security
from terrorism.
More than two in five said not enough was being done to protect
Australia from the threat of terrorism.
And two-thirds thought it was time for all Australians
to carry national identity cards. [ 66.6 ]
Prime Minister John Howard put a national ID card back on the
agenda in mid-2005, as a possible weapon against terrorism, 18
years after a similar Labor plan was quashed
Survey respondent Rob Hamond, 52, from Soldiers Hill near
Ballarat, said every person should have to carry an ID
card "just to keep an
eye on everyone in Australia". .......
"It could be your next-door neighbour who's always
been friendly to you"
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C5478%2C17662499%25255E662%2C00.html
Australia : ID Cards or
Chip -- July 21, 2005
Some reports have raised the "Orwellian
spectre" of an identity microchip implanted in the human
body, as it is already for registration purposes in animals.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/pm-plays-terror-card/2005/07/18/1121538910698.html?oneclick=true
Your Papers Please -- April 9,
2005
As a Homeland Security measure, Congress is now
considering HR 418, "The Real ID Act,"
which potentially makes the central government an ID consolidator
by linking state DMV and other information databases. HR 418 has
prompted an outcry from both conservative and liberal quarters
concerning privacy and potential civil-liberties abuse, and the
concerns are justifiable. As the volume of data collected for
security purposes increases, we're certain to see a corresponding
increase in efforts to gain unauthorized access to that data.
However, these complaints are too little too late. Each American
already has a national ID card -- it's called a Social
Security card.
The use of Social Security numbers for identification purposes
was somewhat limited until 1962, when the Internal Revenue
Service co-opted it for official taxpayer identification. Ten
years later, the notice "For Social Security Purposes --
Not For Identification" was
removed from Social Security cards.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/markalexander/ma20050408.shtml
PIV ID for all federal employees -- March 4, 2005
The Interagency Advisory Board (IAB), made up of smart
card leaders from major U.S. federal agencies, unanimously voted
to approve SP800-73 -- a key specification for the Personal
Identity Verification (PIV) project. PIV refers to
the implementation of smart card and biometric-enabled ID
credentials for all government employees.
It was mandated by the President in a document titled, Homeland
Security Presidential Directive (HSPD12).
http://www.secureidnews.com/weblog/2005/03/04/government-smart-card-leaders-unanimously-approve-key-smart-card-piv-specification/
RFID invades the Capitol, Washington D.C -- March 7, 2005
DAC ( Dept. of Homeland Security Access Card )
ACCESS CARD
But the DAC's RFID chip and its Bluetooth-enabled
holder will make it a target for hackers and spies with wireless
readers, who could be lurking in commissaries, coffee shops, bars
and subway stations around the Capitol.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66801,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
http://www.rense.com/general63/rf.htm
Ron Paul : The National ID Trojan Horse -- Feb. 14, 2005
Supporters claim
the national ID scheme is voluntary. However, any state that opts
out will automatically make
non-persons out of its citizens. The citizens of that state will be unable to have any dealings with the federal
government because their ID will not be accepted.
Including such technology as RFID means the federal
government, as well as the governments of Canada and Mexico,
could know where American citizens are at all times
A national ID card offers us nothing more than a false
sense of security, while
moving us ever closer to a police state.
The national ID proposal should die a well-deserved death in the
Senate, and it should be denounced as authoritarian
and anti-American
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst021405.htm
Ed. note: This is anti - Freedom and anti-freedom of movement
Your Papers Please
The bill even provides for this sensitive
information to be shared with Canada and Mexico!
Imagine a corrupt Mexican official selling thousands of identify
files, including social security numbers to criminals."
Now is the time to demand the Mississippi Legislature refuse to
allow the federal machine to come into our state and force such Draconian,
Nazi-style intrusions into our lives.
Speak up now or in a few years you'll be sporting the Mark of
the Beast.
Call your state representative and senator and tell them you will
refuse this national ID/driver's license.
It is unconstitutional,
period.William J. Gilmore,
http://www.sctonline.net/articles/2005/03/02/opinion/letters/letters36.txt
Paul Walter : From ID cards to subdermal ID -- Feb. 17, 2005
Those who refuse to accept this card
will not be able to fly, take the train and one day you will be
unable to travel the roads and streets without "your papers,
please!" According to Congressman Ron Paul, "The
bill establishes a huge, centrally database of highly personal
information about American citizens: at a minimum their name,
date of birth, place of residence, social security number and
other sensitive data. [Read: National ID Bill Masquerading as Immigration
Reform]
http://www.newswithviews.com/paul/paul29.htm
USA : all adults to be
issued an electronic ID card-- Feb. 11, 2005
Under the rules, federal employees would reject licenses or
identity cards that don't comply, which could curb Americans'
access to airplanes, trains, national parks, federal courthouses
and other areas controlled by the federal government. The bill
was approved by a 261-161
vote.
The measure, called the Real ID Act,
says that driver's licenses and other ID cards must include a
digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined
"machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data
elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag.
The Department of Homeland Security would
be charged with drafting the details of the regulation.
http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-5571898.html?tag=st.util.print
A new driver license is coming for ALL the
european countries, according to the EU ministers of
transport.There are currently 110 different driver licenses
around which is difficult to control and causes fraud. In the chip personal data will be
stored, as well as a history of accidents the owner of the
license may have caused
http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200410/c9133f19-05ee-486e-bbf0-4e251c47d7d6.htm
Will you accept a Nat'l Identity Card ? -- Dec. 17, 2004 Devvy
Kidd
As people become numbers with their every
movement monitored and forced to show papers to travel,
eventually they will accept a slave
mentality and all will to resist will be
gone. "For the good of
the community" and "security,"
they will have finally surrendered their individual
being.
On Dec. 7, 2004, Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas,
made a profound statement on this issue: "... Every
conservative who believes in constitutional restraints on
government should reject the authoritarian national ID card and
the nonsensical intelligence bill itself."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41987
Microprocessor ID cards -- Oct. 6, 2004 ... HANIS
by 2009, more than
100-million smart cards will be in active use in South Africa.
The report focuses on what are known as "memory cards"
and "microprocessor cards", which are
in effect plastic cards containing a small microchip.
Memory cards allow only for the storage of data,
whereas microprocessor cards allow for information to
be added, deleted or manipulated.
Both types are also known as chip cards, thanks to the computer
chip embedded in the card.
The single biggest smart card project this country will see,
however, will be the new
Home Affairs National Identification System, known as Hanis,
which will require the replacement of
identity documents with around 30-million smart
cards --
one for every eligible South African -- during the same five-year
period.
The reason for the explosion in smart card usage is simple: It is
more secure than any other identification technology that is
economically viable and available, can contain
updateable information ranging from personal details to
fingerprints to identification photos,
and is far less prone to forgery than existing systems.
Contact cards and contactless smart cards dictate what kind of
card reader has to be in use, since contact cards must be
inserted into a reader, or swiped, while contactless cards
only have to be passed near the reader."
Contactless cards have both a microchip and an antenna
embedded in the card, which allows for it to be detected at a
small distance by the reader.
"It shows how the technology can be used
today by the most disadvantaged members of our society in the
remotest areas and with a minimum of information
at their disposal.
Imagine how much more it can do for South Africans in the
future." - I-Net Bridge
http://mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=123196
Nat'l Database and Drivers License ID -- Oct. 5, 2004
http://www.rense.com/general58/ccon.htm
Drivers License with "contactless technology" ( RFID )
Federal legislators may also require states to
comply with uniform "smart card" standards, making
state driver's licenses into national identification cards that
could be read at any location throughout the country. The RFID
chips on driver's licenses would at a minimum transmit all of the
information on the front of a driver's license. They may also
eventually transmit fingerprint and other uniquely identifiable
information to reader devices.
RFID tags inside driver's licenses
will make it easy for government agents with readers to sweep
large areas and identify protestors participating in a march, for
example. Privacy advocates also fear that crooks
sitting on street corners could remotely gather personal
information from individual's wallets, such as their birth dates
and home addresses -- the same information many bank employees
use to verify account holders' identities.
Information from card readers could also be coupled
with global positioning system data and relayed to satellites,
helping the government form a comprehensive picture of the
comings and goings of its citizens.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65243,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
and at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40796
Drivers License as National ID Card -- Sept. 28, 2004
According to the legislation (
Republican-House) , within three years of its
enactment, no federal agency may accept for any official purpose
a driver's license or identification card issued by a state that
does not require applicants to provide Social Security
number and "facial imaging capture."
Washington would also require all states to share digital
data acquired in the process of licensing to other
states.
This seems marginally better than the ID provisions McCain-Lieberman
bill in the Senate, in that it is not explicitly part of
a biometric checkpoint system ( subdermal chip ?) ,"
wrote the privacy activists of www.Libertythink.com .
"But the highlighted text suggests facial biometrics
nonetheless. And the linking of all the databases is
troublesome."
Driver's licenses are not the only form of identification
changing. Next year, both U.S. passports and foreign visitor
passports will be issued with a special computer chip
woven into the cover. The chip will include a
photograph of the traveler, and face-recognition technology will
be used to make sure the passport presenter is the same as the
person who applied for the document.
Facial-recognition programs, however, are notoriously
inaccurate, with some studies suggesting error rates
as high as
50 percent. Simple changes in lighting,
or beard growth, can foil it.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40657
Federal
Standards for Drivers Licenses ( National ID ) -- Aug. 17, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Sept. 11 commissioners told Congress on
Monday they want the federal government to set standards for
getting driver's licenses to make it harder for terrorists to
fake their identities.....
We're objecting to the nationalization of the driver's
license and databases that are going to have to be implemented in
order to track driver's licenses," said Marvin Johnson,
legislative counsel for the ACLU.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=National%20License (RJ)
http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040821-115527-1621r
Drivers License as ID card-- Sept. 28, 2004
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2004/donnad928-2.htm
Fears Of National ID With Driver's Licenses
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40657
Republican David Dreier Introduces National ID
Card Legislation
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/270904idcardlegislation.htm
House GOP 9/11 Police State Bill Has Backdoor
National IDs
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/270904backdoorids.htm
ID cards or else subdermal chips -- Sept. 11, 2004
What if the card gets stolen, or lost? The
card will eventually be replaced with microchips, which
could be implanted under the
skin. After all, pets, refugees, criminals and
soldiers are already electronically "tagged".
We already have the technology to do exactly that. Companies like
Applied Digital Solutions in the USA have developed a product called VeriChip,
no bigger than a grain of rice, which can be implanted under
the skin via syringe. It can be read by a radio scanner, and
can contain up to 128 characters of information. It can replace
credit cards, be used to store medical and financial information,
tracked by satellite, and much more. They spent $1.5 million to
work out the best place in the body to put the chip
according to temperature fluctuations. The only two places in the
body they found suitable were into the back of the hand or forehead (!).
http://www.evenmore.co.uk/
e-gov : getting each citizen down to just one number --- Sept. 9,
2004
(
One wonders if the verichip will play a part in all of this ??? )
Ian Watmore,[ Office
of the e-Envoy, Cabinet member] formerly UK managing
director of the consultancy Accenture, took up his post in the
Cabinet Office on September 1, replacing the former e-envoy.
In his first public speech, at Oracle's OpenWorld show in London,
Watmore said that one of the biggest issues in e-government is
identifying citizens. "If ever a topic is screaming to the
top of the agenda, it is the whole identification issue," he
said.
One outstanding need is for a single
identification number for citizens, he said.
"We all know there are a zillion ID numbers in use today. Is
it appropriate to begin to think about a new
identifier for people?"
One first step will be to ensure that every government
organisation has a chief information officer [ CIO ] at senior level.
The key is to get more people to take up
e-services
Watmore's final responsibility is to be head of
the IT profession in government. This is key to
improving the track record of IT projects, he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1299689,00.html
A National Identity Card for the US (Sen. John McCain) -- Aug.
17, 2004
U.S. - VISIT
The commission further advocated that the biometric border
be fully integrated with an internal system of checkpoints,
controlling access to the nation's critical infrastructure and
transport system, as well as federal buildings.
"That could be a recipe for a system of internal
controls that would treat people traveling within the United
States in the same way it treats those crossing its borders,"
cautioned Greg Nojeim, associate director of the ACLU's
Washington office.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040816-061940-3291r
Biometric ID
"All these customer-facing applications,
they're emerging," said Joseph Kim, a consultant with the
International
Biometric Group, which follows the industry. "We'll be
seeing a lot more very, very soon. Whether that sticks or not
depends on how customers feel about it."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/11/tech/main635371.shtml
Biometric Identity Card
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3556720.stm
UK to get compulsory Nat'l ID cards ( mentions verichip ) August
13, 2004
That is Blunkett's plan, although a RFID micro-chip in the
arm (Verichip (TM) 'Get Chipped (TM)' style) may be cheaper and
more applicable by 2013.
For those who think micro-chipping the population is a paranoid
delusion of the wacko conspiracy theorists, check out http://www.adsx.com/prodservpart/verichippreregistration.html
It's already happening. When the technology matures, there will
be pressure to chip everybody.
http://management.silicon.com/government/talkback.htm?PROCESS=show&ID=20029586&AT=39123125-39024677t-40000033c
Meanwhile in Estonia...National ID cards
Posted by timothy on
Monday August 09, @04:19AM [ sent by rms]
from the man-exists-for-the-state dept.
borkee writes "Estonian
MEAC and CMB start
testing a new version of a national ID card
containing what they call 'contactless' extensions. Although they
do not specifically disclose to us, taxpayers, what technology is
used there, it must be quite obvious that it's nothing less than RFID. Add to
this, they'll have person's biometrics in memory. (Security gurus
of course know: biometrics just don't work.) Soon you can track
us poor Estonians by our GSM phones and by our ID cards
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China plans 1 Billion digital chip ID cards -- August 12, 2003
China is about to embark on the world's biggest experiment in
the use of electronic identification cards, which next year
will begin to replace the paper national ID cards carried by 960
million Chinese citizens.
The core of the new ID cards is an embedded microchip
storing an individual's personal information, which
can be read electronically and checked against databases
kept by China's security authorities. Residents of most major
cities also will carry other chip-based cards
that control access to social services. .........
Song Gongde, a legal expert at the National School of Administration in Beijing, says he was encouraged by a provision in China's ID law, passed in June, that strictly limits the kinds of data that can be put on the ID card, including name, birth date and the 18-digit citizen ID number.[ Ed. note: social security number plus zip code ? ] But the law doesn't give citizens the right to see or correct their personal information, whether it is stored on a card or elsewhere.
The introduction of the cards will be accompanied by a major upgrade of the security ministry's databases and computer systems, analysts say. China's security forces, which investigate political misdeeds as well as other crimes, have been enthusiastic users of technology -- for instance, to monitor Internet and e-mail traffic -- and face few curbs on how they can use such technology.
"The absence of a counterweight is
worrying, especially in China where the legal system is
very deficient," said Nicolas Becquelin, the
research director for rights group Human Rights in China.
http://cryptome.org/cn-1bn-ids.htm
China
gets super card
http://www.iht.com/articles/106964.html
Japanese
get 11 digit number card, and fool-proof ONLINE database ---
August 2003
Juki
Net ID cards
A national computerized ID system that was
criticized for its Big Brother overtones when started last year
became fully operational yesterday, allowing Japan's 126
million citizens to cut through red tape with an 11-digit number.
The online database, which contains
every citizen's name, address, birth date and sex, is the
centerpiece of a government initiative to speed up administrative
procedures such as filing change-of-address forms and applying
for passports.
http://washingtontimes.com/business/20030825-091752-5669r.htm
INDIA
: 1 billion to get Smart Chip card; multiple purpose ID -- Aug
26, 2003
Advani card
"Observing that the centre is seriously
considering preparing a national register of Indian citizens and
issuing to them Multi-purpose National Identity Cards
(MNICs), Advani said these would
provide a credible individual identification system and also act
as a deterrent for future illegal immigration.
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=18228
"A smart card is basically a card on which a
chip has been embedded and which has immense power to
store information of different types. As the
transactions grow, be it in buying or
selling or to help the public interact with the government,
the cards can play an important role.
http://www.rediff.com/computer/1998/may/04vittal.htm
PORTAL SCANNERS ... Scanning employees etc. [see IMAGE ]
http://www.findmellc.com/verichip_portal.asp
Article corrected to state that VeriChip will only
contain a unique identifier, and NOT any information---Nov 19-2002
The VeriChip, a scannable device worn under the
skin containing a number corresponding to
a separate database of personal information, was unveiled last
year in Florida.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021119/tech_identification_1.html
Are
You ready for the Mark ?
Reader’s Digest in July 2001 said the
original inventor of the microchip, Jack St. Clair Kilby,
was turned down by MIT because his math scores were too low. He
never had much formal physics training but he received the Nobel
Prize in physics.
http://www.thelionofjudah.org/newsletter/august_2002.htm
Driver's license with
chip...May 1-2002
WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- Legislation to standardize
state-issued driver's licenses across the United States, and to
mandate that those licenses carry a computer chip and incorporate
some kind of unique identifier such as a
fingerprint, will be introduced in Congress on Wednesday.
The Driver's License Modernization Act of 2002,
sponsored by Reps. Jim Moran, D-Va., and Tom Davis, R-Va., also
directs that the chip be capable of accepting
software for other applications, including
those of private companies.
One aspect of the new bill that may not mesh well with AAMVA's
vision, however, is the use of the driver's license for other
than driver identification.
What would happen, said Maxwell if a policeman had to take your
driver's license and it was also your ATM and credit card?
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=30042002-113901-6626r
Verichip becomes an ID chip ! ... April
4-2002
"For now, the VeriChip will bear only an identification
number, said David Hughes of Technology Sourcing
International, a consulting firm helping Applied Digital in its
discussions with the FDA. But that ID code could be
cross-referenced with a database to detail any kind of
information.
The company said production would begin immediately.
"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49559,00.html
and
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/checking.html
Driver's Licenses need
more ID-- Aug 8-2002
September 11th raised to public attention just
what the driver's license has become -- America's ID of
choice," said Jason King of the American Association of
Motor Vehicle Administrators. "Once you have one, you can
rent an apartment, rent a car, open a bank account, cash a check,
board an airplane."
Association President Linda Lewis said states are
developing widely different licenses, some
embedded with biomedical
information about the driver, others with only descriptive data.
The association is seeking a set of minimum, uniform standards
for all driver's licenses, but its effort to
link the driver's license databases of all the states
-- a link already available for commercial driver's licenses --
has been blocked by privacy advocates.
Among steps already taken, officials
said, is a requirement that license applicants supply
more than one form of identification.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57205-2002Aug7.html
Time of JACOB's
Trouble:
They want their ID Chip NOW....Feb. 7-2002
www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,50187-2,00.html
The Embedded Chip
http://www.fishthe.net/666track.htm
SECURITY
Verichip for Airport Security
-- July 15, 2006
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2006/jimg719-3.htm
How We Will Keep Tags on the Old Folk
MARKETING FEAR -- March 19, 2006 ... Christina Odone ... Good
article !
"VeriChip is cashing in on our desperate
yearning for a sense of security. Whether it
is fear of terrorist attack or fear of a medical emergency, if
the company plays on our anxiety, we are putty in its hands. We
will put up with the Orwellian in order to fabricate the
Disneyland, where only pastel-coloured certainties apply."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1734263,00.html
ADT Security Services _- Jan. 23, 2005
Tesco PLC, which owns supermarkets across Europe and Asia,
recently picked Boca Raton-based ADT Security Services Inc., a
subsidiary of Tyco Fire & Security to supply it with RFID
readers and scanners.
George Reynolds, vice president of the RFID group at ADT's
parent, said that the technology is more than a backroom marvel
that would only benefit the retailer's storeroom efficiency. By
letting merchants quickly discover and restock sold-out items,
RFID can help retailers avoid having customers irritated by not
being able to find what they want.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbretailtech23jan23,0,306206.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines
The following article
suggests needed safeguards for the implanted chip. I don't think
there is enough Fire-Insurance to cover the expense of an
eternity in the Lake of Fire when it becomes the MOB.
Safeguards needed for VeriChip - Nov. 2004
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqzRA0eicq1bulvzfuKLdseLqlunptfvntG
Homeland Security
Chip -- Dec. 31. 2003
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This projection excludes other potential markets for Digital
Angel Corp. such as medical devices or
U.S. homeland security, he said.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021230/nym049_1.html
Transponder-locator
for the elderly; eventually for anyone the government wants to
monitor.
"You can run, but you cannot hide"
Chip Implantation---It's more than skin deep--Nov 15-2002
Clyde Crews (CATO) ,
Philip Phillips (FDA devices), Marc Rotenburg (EPIC) and
Dr. Richard Seelig (cyborg)
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/webcr.nsf/(MeetByDocID)/B324E0F61348F85F85256C61004FC9A7?OpenDocument
also at WND -- Sherrie Gossett
"ADS' bald-faced lies to you and the members of your
list about its plans in the past should send off warning flares
about its intentions and the ethical foundation of its
culture," he wrote.
"With any decision as controversial and of such profound
significance as this, it is beholden on a federal government
department in a liberal, transparent and open democracy to
release the full details of its deliberations, including any
conversations of both a formal and informal nature," he
wrote. "That includes intra-governmental and
interdepartmental transactions. There can be no confidence in the
decision until this is done and scrutinized
'How much longer
before implants are mandatory by law
for all American citizens,
and those in the rest of the world?'"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29679
Chipping Americans--a system of control -- Nov 15-2002
We have absolutely no data about this particular product
and about the implications over the long term if Americans are
chipped," Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center in Washington, said.
Applied Digital Solutions Inc. says its glass capsule
the size of a grain of rice, injected into forearms and other
fleshy body parts, could help authorities find missing persons
and speed up medical diagnosis treatment.
The VeriChip, a scannable device worn under the skin and encrypted
with personal information like medical records and emergency
contacts, was unveiled last year in Florida.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1751075
Digital Angel's exclusive license --April 1, 2003
the Company wrote off, as of December 31, 2002, $6.4
million as an impairment of a perpetual exclusive license
to digital encryption and distribution software system.
By utilizing advanced sensor capabilities, Digital Angel
is able to monitor key functions -- such as ambient temperature
and physical movement -- and transmit that data, along with
accurate emergency location information, to a ground station or
monitoring facility. The company also invented, manufactures and
markets implantable identification microchips the size of a grain
of rice for use in humans
Digital Angel Corp. owns the patents
for its inventions in all applications of the implantable
microchip technology for humans and animals.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030331/nym161_1.html
Edgar's Annual Report 10-k http://biz.yahoo.com/e/030331/doc10-k.html
Post 9/11 Security
fears usher in Subdermal VeriChip.... Sherrie Gossett ....Feb.
4-2002
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26316
Oct 22-2002
...VeriChip can be marketed immediately for financial and
security purposes (ID)
Company will immediately
resume sales, marketing and distribution
efforts of VeriChip(TM) in the United States IT ISN"T
PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2002-- Applied
Digital Solutions, Inc., an advanced technology development
company, today announced that the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has determined that VeriChip is not a regulated
medical device "for security, financial, and personal
identification/safety applications."
IT IS
The Agency specified in its ruling that VeriChip is a
regulated medical device for health information
applications "when marketed to provide information to assist
in the diagnosis or treatment of injury or illness." http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021022/222296_1.html
and at
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021022/1011000611_1.html
July 17-19...Las
Vegas.... Security
Chip (VeriChip) at Airport Security Expo
PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2,
2002-- Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSXE - News), an advanced technology
development company, today announced that its "Protected by
VeriChip(TM)" awareness campaign will travel to Las
Vegas, Nevada, to participate in the Airport Security Expo, July
17-18, 2002.
Applied Digital Solutions will join a wide range of leading security companies at the Expo. Representatives from various Federal security agencies are expected to attend, along with airport planners, airport security directors, baggage-handling directors, passenger operations directors, port congestion managers and airport and port management firms.
At the Airport Security Expo, VeriChip
Corporation will display, for the first time, VeriPass(TM)
and VeriTag(TM). These new applications will
allow airport and port security personnel to link a VeriChip
subscriber to his or her luggage (both during check-in and on the
airplane), flight manifest logs and airline or law enforcement
software databases.
Since VeriChip's personal verification technology can't be lost,
stolen, tampered with, misplaced or counterfeited, its secure
personal verification system should be incorporated into our
national airport security initiatives.
Although VeriPass and VeriTag are only in the early
development stage, we look forward to presenting these important
applications at the Expo and to receiving feedback and exploring
potential partnering opportunities from government
and industry leaders who are expected to attend."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020702/22243_1.html
Ad for Airport Security Expo
http://www.worldwidesources.com/
PROFILING
:
Chip and Pin: Profiling Financial Transactions -- Sept. 12, 2004
neural network systems
The system monitors cardholder behaviour,
looking for unusual transaction volumes, amounts and locations.
It also looks at the types of merchants being used, and even the
day of the week, for things that don't fit a pattern based on an
individual's credit card history
The system scores each transaction,
giving higher scores for those it suspects could be fraudulent.
Banks either monitor the results in real time or analyse periodic
reports.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1299691,00.html
We Are What We Buy"; Consumerism as a Religion--Dec 19, 2002
Viewed in this way the activity of consuming can be
considered as a vital and necessary path to self-discovery,"
says Professor Campbell, who set out his views in a paper to a
conference in Sweden. It is not that we "buy" our
identity through what we purchase, but that we discover what we
are like by exposing ourselves to a wide range of products and
services.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/christmas2002/story/0,12673,863069,00.html
EMPLOYEE Profiling:
"Minority Report" Predicting fabrication
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,56826,00.html
TRACKING ( including medical
information)
Tracking
Immigrants -- Sept. 5, 2005 .... I 94 (rfid tags)
Most disturbing to privacy advocates and
civil libertarians are US government proposals to use RFID tags
in passports and drivers' licenses,
and in a new pilot program launched this summer that has placed
RFID tags in immigrants' visas.
RFID devices, from pinhead sized minichips to flat tags
inserted into a piece of paper, contain miniscule antennas
that pass the information it contains after entering the range of
a scanning device. Most RFID technology in use now is "passive,"
which means it does not contain an internal power supply [Ed: battery ] and can only transmit
information from a distance of up to about 30 feet.
"Active" tags have an internal
power source [ Ed: battery]
, can be read from further
distances, and can store
information sent from a transceiver
In August of this year, the Department of
Homeland Security began testing RFID tags at five border
crossings under the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status
Indicator Technology program, or "US VISIT."
The program applies to people without green cards who enter the
US with a visa, whether for work, school, research or tourism, or
those from 27 mostly European countries who are traveling under
the "Visa Waiver Program," which allows travelers to
stay for up to 90 days without a visa. Over the next year, people
in these categories will be issued new "I-94" visa
cards embedded with an RFID tag at five border crossings
including Nogales East and Nogales West in Arizona, Alexandria
Bay in New York, and the Pacific Highway and Peace Arch in
Washington. Homeland Security Department requires that the I-94
cards be carried at all times.
The program applies to people without green
cards who enter the US with a visa, whether for work, school,
research or tourism, or those from 27 mostly European countries
who are traveling under the "Visa Waiver Program,"
which allows travelers to stay for up to 90 days without a visa.
Over the next year, people in these categories will be issued new
"I-94" visa cards embedded with
an RFID tag at five border crossings including Nogales East
and Nogales West in Arizona, Alexandria Bay in New York,
and the Pacific Highway and Peace Arch in Washington. Homeland
Security Department requires that the I-94 cards be carried at
all times
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050905090629677
VeriChip raises fears --Aug. 23, 2004
But on top of civil liberties and other policy
issues, such technologies face visceral objections from many
people who frown on the idea of being implanted with tags that
can track them like migrating tuna
When a person's tag number matches an ID in a
database, the person is allowed to enter a secured room
or complete a financial transaction
In a less violent but practical application, Ray
Hogan of Princeton University's alumni association has
contemplated distributing RFID bracelets among meeting attendees
to track attendance at events that have multiple components. The
technology would let organizers see which programs attendees find
most valuable by virtue of how long they stay. Like others,
however, Hogan says privacy issues may well keep the idea from
becoming a reality.
When such technologies are employed, they can be
even more effective if implanted in the body. Supporters and
critics both say RFID tags under the skin would invariably
increase the volume and quality of personal data, with the
benefit of, at the very least, reducing the margin of error for
misidentification in the event of a disaster.
http://news.com.com/Human+chips+more+than+skin-deep/2009-7337_3-5318076.html
GPS TimeTrack used by employers etc. for personal info
The GPS TimeTrack
service allows businesses to capture their employees
start and stop times for shifts, jobs, work orders and
breaks, while monitoring their location and speed.
Additionally, businesses can use the service to create detailed
Web reports including time and job reports, location maps and
download timesheet information into financial and payroll
systems. http://www.xora.com/documents/Xora_GPS_TT_11.pdf.
Wander-Alert
in
combination with "Amber-Alert"
--
Jan 10, 2003
could become the ultimate tracking system
http://www.memorycaremag.com/articles/351feat3.html
About Life Care Services
LLC (LCS)
Life Care Services (LCS) began serving the senior residence
industry in the early 1960's. Since then, LCS has been actively
involved in the planning, development, or management of more than
100 senior resident communities throughout America. LCS is
flexible in tailoring its services to the owners' needs for
assistance in the areas of Management Services, Development,
Marketing and Sales, Home Health, Assisted Living and Consulting
Services. LCS is affiliated with the following organizations:
Assisted Living Federation of America; American Association of
Homes and Services for the Aging; American Seniors Housing
Association; International Association of Homes and Services for
the Aging; National Association for Senior Living Industry
Executives; National Multi-Housing Council; and The Frist Center:
A Learning Center for Senior Living. For more information about
LCS, please visit http://www.lcsnet.com.
http://www.digitalangel.net/about_pressreleases.asp?RELEASE_ID=48
About Digital
Angel™
Digital Angel represents the first-ever combination of
advanced biosensor
technology and Web-enabled wireless telecommunications linked to
Global Positioning Systems (GPS). By utilizing advanced
biosensor capabilities, Digital Angel will be able to
monitor key body functions — such as temperature and pulse
— and transmit that data, along with accurate location
information, to a ground station or monitoring facility. Applied
Digital Solutions is exploring a wide range of potential
applications for Digital Angel, including: monitoring the
location and medical condition of at-risk patients;
locating lost or missing individuals; locating missing or stolen
household pets; monitoring the location of certain parolees;
managing livestock and other farm-related animals; pinpointing
the location of valuable stolen property; managing the commodity
supply chain; preventing the unauthorized use of firearms; and
providing a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced
e-commerce security. Digital Angel Corporation has
announced a proposed merger with Medical Advisory Systems.
For more information on Digital Angel, visit www.digitalangel.net.
Electronic
Leash for your Child
http://www.safetyandsecuritycenter.com/chwapealwilo.html
Articles
on combining VeriChip with GPS transponder
8
People Take the Chip
The company says it is perfecting a
larger, more futuristic unit that will have the ability to detect
the users location using global positioning system (GPS)
satellites
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2002/5/10/technology/10chip&sec=technology
Dangerous
technology ...VeriChip morphing into tracking system
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1869000/1869457.stm
Digital
Angel, MS-MapPoint and GPS team up....March 21-2002
"Digital Angel's Personal Safety and
Location product is currently being marketed in South Florida as
part of the first phase
in its national rollout. Orders can be placed from around the
country through the company's website (www.digitalangel.net).
The watch/pager device
communicates ``where-you-are''
and ``how-you-are''
data through Digital Angel's proprietary delivery system to its
24/7 operations center in California. "
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020319/192332_1.html
How does GPS work ?? An excellent Tutortial
www.trimble.com/gps/what.html
VeriChip Nannies... July
29, 2002
Digital Angel ($399 plus $29.95 a month) is a wearable GPS
device that indicates when a person has moved beyond
certain preset boundaries. The alerts may be sent to
cell phones, computers or pagers.
"The chip has an alarm button and is hidden from any
perpetrators," Cossolotto said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58945,00.html
COMMERCIAL usages .... e-commerce
from
"Flying Dutchman" RR ET MB ..... February 21, 2004
"Orange promoting "mark of the beast"?
Orange, the Anglo-asian mobile telephone company with offices
worldwide, have a bizarre new ad campaign currently running in
the UK (Feb 2001). The series of ads, found on billboards and in
magazines, all show a human hand with the orange logo,
an orange square, imprinted on it, and refer to having one of
Orange's services "in the palm of my hand."
Intentional or otherwise, marketing strategies like this strongly
associate in the mind of the viewer the concept of electronic
communication with implant-enhanced body function, and
can thus be seen as a means of preparing public
consciousness for the notion of microchip implants.
Yesterday I saw this commercial for the Dutch
tv for the first time....to be honest I was quite shocked.
You see people walking in the streets and calling with their
hand, they show the palm of the hands frequently.
Everybody with the orange squared logo of Orange imbedded into
the palm of their hands.( in commercial)
Of course this is not the number of the beast yet....but
it is a good warning that we might be close.
I saw an English comericial with a barcode projected on the
forehead of a baby, it was on a huge billboard.
Did anybody notice all the names that is given to computer parts?
Voodoo-cards, Herculus-cards, Demon etc. etc.
There is a lot a computer companies from Germany.
It is "60 Computers", this is how they are promoting
themselves in Europe:
06 computers ....06 software .... 06 hardware
ORANGE : The World in the
Palm of your Hand --Feb. 21, 2004
http://www.orange.nl/orange/index.php
"Here It Comes! The Way I believe the Technology for the
Mark is to be Mandated
The idea for a national Sales Tax I believe will be used to allow
the technology for the MOB to be mandated in place. In order for
this to occur every item that is sold will need to be tracked.
Every citizend that purchase the product likewise will also need
to be tracked. The idea of doing away with an income tax is so
appealing that I believe that the people will flock to the
technology just to get relief from the income tax burden. But
with the relief of burdend becomes a small minor inconvenience.
An imbedded personal identifier." B Hiles RR 3-05-04
Effort to dump income Tax gains steam--March 5, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37435
e-taxes and e-commerce --June 23, 2003
For the past few years, physical goods that
foreign companies sell online into the European Union have been
subject to import taxes, typically collected by shippers at the
time of delivery. But until now, non-European Union companies
have not had to collect taxes on sales of software downloads,
auction listings or Internet services like those offered by AOL
Time Warner. That changes with the new rules, which the European
Union approved in May 2002.
Under the new regulations for the so-called value-added tax, or
VAT, companies outside the European Union have two options for
paying the tax on downloads, auction listings and Internet
services. One option is to determine the customer's
location, calculate the tax that applies to the
customer's country and remit the tax to the proper authorities.
The other option is to establish a physical presence in a
European Union country and charge all European customers the tax
associated with that country.
http://www.iht.com/articles/100368.html
Bio-metric becoming mandatory rather than voluntary
ID for COMMERCIAL operations (buying and selling)
Lawmakers court controversy over nationwide ID plan ...April
30-2002
Virginia Republican Rep. Tom Davis, and his neighbor and
Democratic counterpart Jim Moran, will offer a bill that would
set national standards for state-issued driver's
licenses. It also would require states to issue
high-tech ID cards equipped with a computer chip and
"biometric" technology, such as fingerprint
data or other unique identifiers.
The measure also would require states to make their IDs
more resistant to counterfeiting, and would increase
penalties for ID fraud.
The legislation would require state ID cards to include so-called
"smart chips," that could store bank and debit
card data, allowing consumers to use their ID cards in a
variety of commercial applications.
This bill will increase state and commercial
power to track citizens, and do very little - if
anything to combat terrorism," said Chris Hoofnagle,
legislative counsel for the Electronic Privacy
Information Center. "As you incorporate more
features into the card beyond identity verification, it increases
the profit motive and the desire to forge the card."
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=30042002-113901-6626r
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/ (fee-archive)
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176252.html (no longer working)
DEBIT
ACCOUNTS
DEXIT Instead; debit account for small transactions -- Feb. 2005
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2005/03/c0363.html
MARKETING;
PR; Promotional campaigns and Mass Production
Bergen County New
Jersey chief of police takes the VeriChip --
April 22, 2005
PR Campaign ...seeking high-profile citizens for implantation
VeriChip Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), announced today that the
Bergen County, New Jersey Chief of Police has been implanted with
the VeriChip. Chief of Police Jack Schmidig, a member of the
police force for over 30 years, received a VeriChip as part of the
Company's strategy of enlisting key regional leaders to
accelerate adoption of the VeriChip. With hospital
emergency room infrastructure forming, patients will have the
ability to provide secure ID and medical record access in an
emergency or clinical situation.
High-profile regional leaders are
accepting the VeriChip, representing an excellent
example of our approach to gaining adoption of the
technology," said Kevin H. McLaughlin, VeriChip
Corporation's CEO.
"The northern New Jersey area represents one of our early
regional targets, and in a short time period we have secured
a leading hospital in the region which has agreed to adopt the
VeriChip System to scan patients; initiated efforts to educate
the physician community in conjunction with one of our
distribution partners Henry Schein Corporation, and
implanted several high-profile members of the community with the
VeriChip. We intend to employ this approach on a regional basis
to accelerate acceptance of this Class II medical device."
VeriChip ...
"seeking high-profile members of the
community to receive the VeriChip to raise awareness of the
device."
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050422005197&newsLang=en
Ed. note : One has to wonder just
how "tolerant" police departments will be of Christians
who refuse the VeriChip.
Thought and Opinion Leaders
to Play Key Role in Adoption of VeriChip.
http://www.wirelessiq.info/content/newsfeed/3071.html
http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=510494XSL_NEWSML_TO_NEWSML_WEB.xml
Angela Fulcher named VP of Marketing for ADS (VeriChip)--March
29, 2004
Ms. Fulcher is expected to focus on enhancing Applied
Digital Solutions' corporate communications activities, with a
focus on increasing brand awareness for the company's products
and supporting shareholder communication efforts
the company is now in position, for the first
time, to proactively market our promising technologies.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040329/295595_1.html
Chips Shipped: Mexico and 10 US Centers---April 4, 2003
Established over 15 years ago, SPIMSA Corporation provides
clients with a range of security-related services, including
building access control, personal security, and security
consulting. SPIMSA's client base includes some 150 major
corporate entities, along with various agencies of government at
the federal, state and local levels in Mexico. Marketing and
distribution efforts involving VeriChip are expected to be
widespread geographically in Mexico, covering a diverse mix of
potential customers and meeting a range of needs in the areas of
access security and emergency identification.
In the United States, shipments of initial VeriChip
inventories have been completed to ten Authorized VeriChip
Centers, enabling these Centers to begin local VeriChip marketing
efforts. Authorized VeriChip Centers are now located in the
following cities: Chandler, AZ; Boca Raton, FL; Naples, FL; Port
St Lucie, FL; Sunrise (Broward County), FL;
Bethesda, MD; New York City, NY; North Charleston, SC; San
Antonio, TX; and McLean, VA.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030404/45257_1.html
Journalist gets
microchipped for story---April
4, 2003
Angela Swafford, a
Miami-based journalist :
I think the technology is
tremendously exciting, with applications that defy our wildest
dreams. This chip is quietly heralding a time when humans will
literally have technology under the skin."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030404/45257_1.html
Implantable
spy-chip gets green light from the US
http://wireless.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17127.html
Video:
Chip-Implantation Surgery... "that
piercing serpent"...Isaiah 27:1
Her chips, which emit a read-only 134-kilohertz frequency
that is read by a scanner, contain a 12-digit alphanumeric ID.
They were injected into the back of her hands,
in the fleshy area between the thumb and index finger; the first
was implanted in October 2001, the second in February.
She plans to modify her computer mouse to incorporate a scanner
to pick up the chips' signals and monitor her Internet
use. She'll use one hand to surf when she's working, the
other for recreation, then compare her two
"identities." And while the chips track her online
movements, a webcam and GPS unit will track her physical
movements.
The location Nisbet chose for one of the chips -- the
back of the right hand -- is also the precise spot
where, according to Biblical lore, the "Mark of
the Beast" will be placed during the apocalyptic end of
the world detailed in the Book of Revelation.
Indeed, some Christians already believe that the Mark of the
Beast is a microchip. When Applied Digital Solutions announced
the creation of an implantable microchip for medical and security
purposes, fervent believers decried the product
as the sign of Satan.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50769,00.html
ARTICLES
VeriChip---marvel or
menace ? Oct. 14, 2004
Doctors would scan patients like cans at a grocery
store. Instead of the price, the patient's medical record
would pop up on a computer screen.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/general/2004/10/14/generalheraldnet_2004_10_14_eng-heraldnet_eng-her
aldnet_025737_3344245875639399338.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
Chips and Heinz -- Oct. 15, 2004
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/0,2000061702,39161199,00.htm
Tech Valley New York --Aug. 22, 2004
Two years ago, Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM
Corp., after receiving incentives from the state, opened
the world's most advanced chip-making plant, a
$2.5 billion factory located in Fishkill, 60 miles north of New
York City, capable of building chips on silicon
discs 300 millimeters across, 50 percent larger than their
predecessors.
There will eventually be 5,000 to 6,000 IBM workers at the plant,
said John Kelly III, a senior IBM executive who grew up in Albany
and helped lure Sematech.
Companies including Albany Molecular Research Inc., a
pharmaceutical research and development company, MapInfo Corp., a
mapping software company, and several General Electric Co.
subsidiaries, including GE Global Research, already call the area
home.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--techvalley0822aug22,0,4200232.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
1984 is here
The war on terror has eroded (to some degree necessarily)
some of the barriers against invasion of privacy in the Western
democracies. The big question is, will a prolonged struggle enshrine
these losses forever and increase them;
Consider these phenomena: Personal habits are routinely
tracked — eating, shopping, dating and recreating
— through credit cards and supermarket cards. Also: Surveillance
is ubiquitous, with video and Web cameras, Lo-jack for
humans, and wireless photo phones. We remain, for the most part,
oblivious.
In 1984, individuals are observed daily by a two-way
telescreen on a wall in their homes. Now, with video
phones and GPS devices, it's
possible to check up on someone anywhere at any time.
Furthermore, there is a host of highly advanced
"watching" devices that now exists, including
"biometric" technologies designed to pick an individual
out of a crowd based on lightning analysis of facial structure.
Thumb-print reading devices are here to stay.
Strikingly, 20 years after 1984, the perfection of
integrated micro- and nano-circuitry is such that much of the
hardware for mass oppression described in
1984 can be realized. Simply feed an incredibly fast
server with the information from a chip that is implanted in a
fold of skin — or embedded in millions of smart cards. With
a properly sophisticated database and retrieval
system, replete with bottomless data storage and data mining,
you've got the makings of a feast over which Big Brother would
drool.
In a time of crisis, the temptation is great to
treat all citizens as suspects. But George Orwell
was right: A society where half of the citizenry spies
on the other half is a dead end.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2585463
George Bothwell stands up for his beliefs --Oct 16, 2003
The Bible says that he who worships the beast or receives his
image shall drink the wine of the wrath of God," Mr.
Bothwell said, quoting several ominous-sounding passages by
heart.
"That prophecy was written two millennia ago, when there was
really no vocabulary to describe the technology that has come up
on this," he said. "The God
of the Bible wants individual freedom.
This system enforces external control over
people."
The problem arises not when photographs are taken, but when
they are
stored and potentially used for unknown purposes.
"The danger is when the central authority captures
digital identifiers from people and stores them in a central data
base for any authority with the right technology to access,"
he said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031015.wlicence1015/BNStory/National/
Big
Brother Gets Under Your Skin by Julie Foster
Just like the cell phone, Digital Angel®
"will be a connection from yourself to the electronic world.
It will be your guardian, protector. It will bring good things to
you."
"We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own
soul," Zhou concluded.
In the process of merging with Destron Fearing
Corp., a manufacturer and marketer of
electronic and visual identification devices for animals,
DigitalAngel.net is scheduled to complete a prototype of the
dime-sized implant by year's end. Company executives hope to make
the device affordable for individuals, though no cost projections
have been made.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17834
ADSX stock
(VeriChip) jumps 68 % ..... March 28, 2003
Next highest, The Dow Jones Technology Services Index, which had
a nearly 5 percent gain. A major player on the index was
component Applied Digital Solutions (ADSX: news, chart, profile), which flew
up more than 68 percent on the week. The company announced a
multi-year contract from the General Services Administration's
Federal Technology Service, which makes it one of the companies
to share in the GSA's $35 billion Connection's program.
Applied Digital is also a component on the Dow Jones
Diversified Technology Services Index, which gained more than 4
percent for the week. The technology sector is benefiting from
forecasts of an upturn in spending once the war ends and the
sector climbed after early reports from the front promoted the
theory that the conflict in the Iraq would be over quickly.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B00446CCA%2D
6532%2D4645%2DB7CD%2D48C8C6DE3712%7D
History of Applied Digital Solutions VeriChip--- March 28, 2003
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31765
ADS new head: Scott R. Silverman (replaces Sullivan) --March 27,
2003
PALM BEACH, Fla. -(Dow Jones)- Applied Digital Solutions Inc.
(NasdaqSC:ADSX
- News) Chairman
and Chief Executive Richard J. Sullivan retired effective March
21, and he will be succeeded in both roles by
President Scott R. Silverman.
A company spokeswoman said Sullivan, 62 years old, had been
planning to retire for a number of years.
In a press release Thursday, the personal security
technology company said Silverman, 39, joined the
company for the second time in 2001, as a consultant.
She said the company would have until Dec. 31 to
make a one-time payment of $50 million, should it miss the June
30 deadline.
At that point, the company will also engage an investment banker
to facilitate the valuation and sale of at least
some of its about 75% stake in Digital Angel Corp. (AMEX:DOC - News)
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030327/1443001117_2.html
Chips under
the skin become a part of you--Mrs. Jacobs..Sept 10-2002
Leslie says it was just as if she had a cavity or a
filling and wanted to play with it for the first day. "Then,
after that, it becomes a part of you."
She says the only time it makes a difference is when the family
is close to a scanner.
"It's kind of like you're at the supermarket and they take
the scanner out and your name and information comes up,"
she says.
"That's the reality of it because every day you just do your
own thing and you don't really know it's there until
you're scanned."
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5051110^15397^^nbv^,00.html
The mark of the beast is finally revealed
http://christian-resurrection.org/end-times/mark-of-beast.htm
Chip Implants for Humans...many
categories and LINKS
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Chip_Implants/
VeriChip is
here....posted March 22-2002
http://pub76.ezboard.com/fav1611godswordfrm3.showMessage?topicID=222.topic
Chips and
ID's...M Roulaeu- March 15-2002 [links to sites]
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/microchips.html
BAD NEWS for chip makers
Feb. 3, 2004 K-8 for Digital Angel:
The statements in this Form 8-K that are
not strictly historical are "forward-looking"
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities
Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created
by these sections.
The forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties and the actual results that the Company achieves
may differ materially from these forward-looking statements due
to such risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to,
the Company's historical losses and negative cash flows from
operations raise doubt about the Company's ability to continue as
a going concern, the Company's stockholders will experience
dilution if certain debt owned by the Company is converted into
common stock, the Company's stockholders will experience dilution
when the stock purchase agreement with Applied Digital Solutions,
Inc. closes, the risk of foreclosure on
substantially all of the Company's assets, the Company's majority
stockholder, Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. is able to
completely control the board of directors and may
support actions that conflict with the interests of
other stockholders, the Company's earnings will
decline if it writes off additional goodwill and other intangible
assets, exercises of the Company's options and warrants
outstanding and available for issuance may adversely affect the
market price of the Company's common stock, the Company's
inability to generate income, the Company's Wireless and
Monitoring segment's ability to achieve profitability, the
Company's ability to maintain patent and trade secret protection,
domestic and foreign government regulation, the Company's sales
to government contractors of animal identification products,
dependence on a single production arrangement for the Company's
patented syringe-injectable microchips, dependence on principal
customers, competition in the visual and electronic
identification markets, risks as a result of foreign operations,
foreign currency rate fluctuation, dependence on a small team of
senior management and the Company's ability to develop,
integrate, miniaturize and market the Digital Angel TM
technology.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/040203/doc8-k.html
Stock Woes for Chip-Implanter........ May 17- 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/ipo/0,1350,52499,00.html
Press
coverage of implanted chips distorted?....Sherrie
Gossett WND...May 11-2002
Tech experts warn
real threats go unreported by 'mainstream' media
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27584
Comments on the inconsistencies of
the VeriChip press releases
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/checking.html
Implantable Chip
attacks WND ...
Sherrie Gossett --April 2-2002
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27047
HISTORY
ID Prototype Unveiling
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/14/0041232.shtml
Precursor chip placed in arm of Jacob family....May
10-2002
[ not MOB until placed
in right hand or forehead ]
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/3237942.htm
All chip articles at www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/chipindex.html
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