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Back to Shop 666 page one
Shopping with 666 -- pg 2
plus articles
From the Newswire:
Shopping with personal
scanners -- June 17, 2007 ..."scan breeze"
She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom
grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it
off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she's done, she pays
at a terminal at the front of the store
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_bi_ge/scan_as_you_shop
German ' Monowise ' tracks shopping behavior-- Oct. 29, 2006
Ed: ever notice the blockage in grocery aisles ?
That's how they monitor "conflict resolution" in
customers when
blocked by another customer.
How you dress, how you walk ... zooming in on facial expression
... all makes up a very subjective profile.
" The system sends an alarm via e-mail when
an object is detected crossing a particular line.
The main purpose of the system is to track movement of customer
in a store and turn data into statistic figures "
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=economy&alt=&trh=20061029&hn=37758
IBM store of the
future -- Oct. 9, 2006
One of the most interesting technologies at the IBM
pavilion was the LaneHawk
by Evolution Robotics. Using a high-end camera and sophisticated image-recognition
software, the LaneHawk takes a photo of shopping cart contents
and looks up UPC codes for the products to send that information
to the POS. It’s a high-tech way to cut down on one of the
most low-tech forms of loss – the accidental (or
intentional) omission of bottom-of-basket products from a sale.
Ed: It's also
a good way to monitor one's purchases, since it has
image-recognition which most likely is also
facial recognition. That way, if a customer makes
purchases with cash, the System can identify your buying habits
without the "report card" provided by either a
subdermal chip or smart card or credit card.
Just one more clever way of tracking and profiling. They
leave no way out.
http://atmmarketplace.com/news_story_26719.htm
Reader Comment: "Is it a
coincidence that as we have moved away from cash-on-the-nail to
cheques, then plastic that more people find themselves in debt?
When we handed over cash (I still do), we could see and 'feel'
how much this was, but now it goes without a thought. This latest
development seems to be another move to divorce us from
self-reliance and personal responsibility - a kind of casual
aquaintance with money that somehow says it doesn't matter 'it'll
come from somewhere'. Dangerous "
A Shopping cart that knows my name -- Jan. 29, 2007
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/IIT_grads_make_shopping_more_interactive/articleshow/1501845.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/IIT_grads_use_smart_cards_to_make_shopping_more_interactive/articleshow/1501746.cms
As
ID tech gets more commerce-prone, there's Crowdstorm
(influence) -- Oct. 2006
The idea behind
Crowdstorm is that many of us average
consumers are capable of helping out a fellow
shopper in need. We may
not be a paid expert, but we know what works and what
doesn’t. Put more glamorously, Crowdstorm
is the social network model applied to shopping. Think
MySpace for the gadget head. Or, as Crowdstorm founder Philip
Wilkinson says, it’s about measuring and making sense of the
buzz around products
Reviewers get points for posting new products,
Wilkinson says. They also earn more points when users follow
their recommendations. The more points a user accumulates,
the more credible they become as a source. "The reputation
system is purely how trustworthy you are," says Wilkinson.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2377979,00.html
More
grocery stores are going e-payment -- Jan 18, 2007
http://www.secureidnews.com/news/2007/01/18/hannaford-supermarkets-selects-new-verifone-mx830/
http://www.contactlessnews.com/news/2007/01/18/hannaford-supermarkets-selects-new-verifone-mx830/
Pay-by-touch advantages -- Oct. 15, 2006
" Hy-Vee, Inc. "Pay By Touch gives us
the opportunity to help shoppers move quickly
through the checkout line with the
touch of their finger -- no need to remember PIN numbers, write
checks or fumble for credit cards.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,2576.shtml
Let your fingers do the paying
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/magazines/fortune/pluggedin_fortune_biometrics/index.htm
Your ID is right at your fingertips ( KC
stores ) June 24, 2006
Technology experts say it’s only a
matter of time before people in Kansas City
and across the nation will be
scanning their fingers in exchange for gas and groceries,
leaving their purses and wallets at home
Irises and fingerprints will be scanned,
hand and facial dimensions will be digitally recorded, and a
computer will tell you whether you’re
you. And if you are [ you] , doors and
digital accounts will be unlocked.
For School
and for work
Biometric sensors are also granting, and
denying, people access to
schools and fitness centers, said
Walter Hamilton, chairman of the International Biometric Industry
Association, in Washington. And they’re also replacing time cards.
In addition, the federal agency in charge of
airport security is scheduled to implement a “Registered
Traveler” program this month in which people who sign up can
bypass security checks with a
“smart card”
[ Ed: containing a microcomputer to process payments
]
containing their fingerprints. A Kansas City International
Airport spokesman said the airport doesn’t plan to
participate, but Kansas Citizens could encounter the program at
other airports
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14890809.htm
Zebra; POS wireless Grocery Stores -- May 25, 2006
Mobile Card reader
Zebra’s booth featured a mobile printer and
credit card reader to accompany mobile point-of-sale computers,
along with about a dozen other technology products aimed at
helping retailers streamline their operations
http://nwitimes.com/articles/2006/05/26/business/business/5e97ca6aec8252ef862571790066fcb4.txt
Future Store Germany -- April 2006
http://www.future-store.org/servlet/PB/-s/9k7vn918hbgje144v09q1hpl5151qp27tu/menu/1007054/index.html
VeriFone, contactless payments and grocery stores -- Oct. 27,
2005
VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), announced
today that Meijer Stores has completed the in-place updating of
thousands of VeriFone Omni 7000MPD customer-facing
payment systems with modules to accept contactless payment cards.
Meijer, a grocery and general merchandise retailer, and one of
the fastest growing privately-owned companies in the United
States, was one of the earliest adopters of the modular Omni
7000MPD.
This demonstrates the modular architecture
VeriFone developed to future-proof merchant
investments and adapt to changing technology and
circumstances."
http://www.verifone.com/news/releases/release.cfm?contentType=newsReleases&contentId=121049
Add vaccinations (
Ed : injections)
to your grocery list --
Oct. 9, 2005
Ed : Will VeriChips
eventually be injected for "convenient" grocery
shopping ??
Retailers are becoming a first line of defense
against the flu, with more pharmacies and grocers
signing on to be host sites for flu clinics. CVS Pharmacy, with
stores in 36 states, is partnering with Minneapolis-based
MinuteClinic to test the concept of a tiny medical clinic staffed
by nurse practitioners trained to provide basic services, such as
vaccinations, and to diagnose and treat common ailments from
bronchitis to pink eye. So far, MinuteClinic has opened 40
locations in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Nashville, Tenn., and the
Minneapolis area in Target and Cub Foods stores in addition to
CVS.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer,
says it is quietly testing fast-service medical clinics in its
stores and plans to have 12 locations by the end of January in
Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and Oklahoma.
Many seeking the shots went to grocery stores
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051009/NEWS01/510090338/1006
Combo
: Grocery Store and Health Clinic -- Sept. 27, 2005
Will
it be possible to "get chipped" at your local grocery
store ???
"Quick Care" ......"Minute Clinics" --- in
Twin Cities [ Ed: Digital
Angel borders the Twin Cities ]
"HealthPartners Central Minnesota Clinics
will open a clinic in Cash Wise Foods geared toward
people with little time.
The clinic in Waite Park, to be staffed with nurse practitioners
and physician's assistants, will treat small health issues —
no appointments needed — that can be addressed in less
than15 minutes
Clinic staff will administer vaccines [ Ed: injections ] and
health screenings, and they will be able to write
most prescriptions."
HealthPartners Medical Director Julie Johnson will have
some oversight and QuickCare will have the same quality protocols
as the HealthPartners clinic. QuickCare will be integrated with
HealthPartners' electronic medical records,
Vinson said.
"It's a national trend,"
HealthPartners Executive Director Andy Vinson said
We think it complements the services we offer in terms of
pharmacy, and it's an added convenience for the customer,"
Coborn's Chief Operating Officer Bob Thueringer said. Cash Wise
is part of the chain of Coborn's grocery stores.
QuickCare, which will open Oct. 22, will
be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays.
http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+437391
MinuteClinics
at CVC Pharmacies -- Indiana
In-store health care is now available at select
CVS pharmacies, where customers can do more than fill a
prescription,
Staying
Healthy's Stacia Matthews reported.
MinuteClinic fees are covered for people who are
insured with Cigna or United Health Care
http://www.theindychannel.com/health/5021643/detail.html
ValuTec ( HBNet ) speed up payment process -- July 27, 2005
The use of HBNet will enhance Valutec's ability
to speed the checkout process for both
dial and IP transactions at thousands of U.S. retailers who use
Valutec's electronic gift programs to offer their own
store-branded cards. With HBNet, gift and loyalty card
redemptions, reward dollars, merchandise credits and reloads will
be completed faster, more securely and
more affordably than ever before.
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=394
About Valutec Card Solutions (www.Valutec.net)
About Hypercom (www.hypercom.com)
Widely recognized as the global payment technology innovator,
Hypercom delivers complete card payment terminal, network access
device, server and transaction networking solutions that help
merchants and financial institutions generate revenues and
increase profits. Hypercom's card payment terminal, network and
server solutions are leading the transformation of electronic
payments in more than 100 countries. The company is headquartered
in Phoenix, Arizona
BIO- ID at grocery
checkout ..Pay-By-Touch
Coming to your local grocery store
SOON :
TATTLE - TALE Purchases and Market Profiling
All Grocery Stores to have fingerprint buying ?
Then they will know what you buy, for how many people in your
home, your ethnicity, and possibly religion.
And of course this will be a determining factor in your health
and life insurance... medical records etc.etc.
Pay By
Touch comes to the UK -- Oct. 24, 2005
It will be introduced here by the Co-op at its
stores in Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester and, if successful,
rolled out nationally. But there are concerns that it could meet
resistance from shoppers who view having their fingers scanned as
an invasion of privacy.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money-savers/article.html?in_article_id=404564&in_page_id=5
PBT buys CS ... compromised data --- Oct. 17, 2005
The biometrics payment company, Pay By
Touch, which hopes that consumers will swipe fingers at
retail stores instead of cards, said on Saturday that it was buying
substantially all of CardSystems'
assets to gain access to its 120,000 merchants.
John Morris, the chief operating
officer of Pay By Touch
While Pay By Touch already has a largely online
card processing business, he said it was planning to take
advantage of CardSystems' merchant network to offer its
biometric technology to more retail stores.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/17/technology/17cyber.html?pagewanted=print rms
This little finger went to market
StoreNext
[ Fujitsu ] and
Pay
By Touch simple touch of a
finger. -- May 5, 2005
Pay By Touch's fingerprint payment technology will be available
soon in independent grocery stores,
thanks to an agreement with StoreNext Retail
Technologies, which plans to resell the Pay By Touch hardware,
software, and interfaces to independent retailers.
The joint solution will allow shoppers to pay for
purchases with the simple touch of a finger.
When checking out, customers place their fingers on a
biometric scanner that authenticates them while linking to their
financial and loyalty accounts.
Pay By Touch
also offers a quick, accurate way to check age verification and
automates the loyalty program.
The privately-held company offers retailers a
complete payment solution, from front-end biometric
authentication, age verification, and check cashing to back-end
payment processing for ACH, debit card,
and credit card transactions
http://www.secureidnews.com/news/2005/05/05/storenext-and-pay-by-touch-to-collaborate-on-electronic-payment-solutions-for-independent-grocers/
StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC has released RBO 4.4, an
updated version of the Retalix Back Office (RBO) platform that
integrates with StoreNext's ISS45 and recently-acquired ScanMaster point-of-sale (POS) systems.
Simultaneously released was RBO Express 4.4, specially priced for
smaller stores
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050503005792&newsLang=en
San Francisco Pay-by-touch -- Oct. 5,
2005....... Health Care too
Pay By Touch will also help manage discount and other store
loyalty programs. Customers will be able to swipe their finger
into a device at restaurants and see the meals they have already
purchased, and waiters can offer them deals based on their
preferences and so on, said Morris. The
company also wants to introduce the system to the health care
arena so that patients can use it for payments and records
The convertible preferred notes were offered by the Getty Trusts,
Ron Burkle-- founder and managing partner of the Yucaipa
Companies -- and Rembrandt Venture Partners, among others.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/sv/20051004/tc_siliconvalley/_www12814398
Pay By
Touch -- Minneapolis -- May 19, 2005 "electronic wallet"
The store then scans a customer's finger five times to
create a set of "data points."
Belisle is quick to note the data points are not
actual fingerprints but rather heat settings unique to
each person.
"That's why it is so secure," she said. The data points
"cannot be captured or engineered into fingerprints
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5407150.html
Biopay
-- Utah -- May 19, 2005
BioPay has been so successful that we no longer take
traditional paper checks," reports Wiscombe.
"If people want to pay by check, we require them
to enroll in BioPay. We've had no complaints and
customers seem to really like the system."
http://www.secureidnews.com/weblog/2005/05/11/biopays-at-it-again-this-time-providing-the-first-biometric-payment-systems-in-utah/
Bio-Bots
: RFID in everything
http://www.finextra.com/fullfeature.asp?id=606
Item-tracking
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050502005811&newsLang=en
The god of this age : CONVENIENCE
Mobile
Marketing
We are very excited to be the first distributor to offer a
fully integrated mobile marketing, loyalty and
payment solution to our customers," said Robert Cotton, VP
of Sales, RCS. "The MobileLime solution, fully integrated at
the point-of-sale through POSitouch, is so compelling for the
hospitality industry-and so easy to make happen. We can easily
upgrade existing users to the MobileLime Solution."
The solution works with all 170 million
consumers' mobile phones in the US. Establishments
can deliver their marketing message to their consumers' mobile
phones using voice and data capabilities, while reinforcing their
marketing program with customized email messages, receipts and a
web site. Merchants can actively promote new programs or
specials; update their customers on their program account
balance, order status and more.
For consumers, MobileLime enables each person to link all
of the information they need to make a purchase -- credit cards,
loyalty cards, pre-paid cards, and even cash -- to their mobile
phone. At restaurants they can even select a tip with their phone
making the payment process more convenient.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050411/nym067.html?.v=3
Tags to track your food
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/10/15/170222.shtml?tid=158&tid=137
Are
your groceries spying on you ? ( Ed: Yes ! and
Profiling you too ! )
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/business/3_3_EL08_STORESPIES_S1.htm
Articles
pertaining to the 666 System :
"THE
GRAND INQUISITOR" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
From the Book : The Brothers Karamasov
[Jesus on trial by the Inquisition]
The
Authorities: " Oh never, never can they (the
masses) feed themselves
without us (the totalitarian state...New World Order).
No Science will give them bread so long as they remain free.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to
us,
"MAKE US YOUR SLAVES, BUT FEED US ".
They will understand themselves at last,
that freedom and bread enough for all,
are inconceivable together;
for never, never will they be able to share between them!
Thou, (speaking to Jesus Christ) didst promise
them the Bread of Heaven,
but I repeat again,
can it compare with earthly bread in the eyes of the weak,
ever sinful and ignoble race of man?
And if for the sake of the Bread of Heaven,
thousands and tens of thousands
shall follow Thee (Jesus),
What is to become of the millions and tens of millions of
creatures who will not have the strength to forego the earthly
bread for the sake of the heavenly?
Choosing (earthly ) bread, Thou (Jesus) wouldst have
satisfied the universal and eternal craving of humanity.....
Finding Someone To Worship"
(parenthesis, capitols and underline this editor)
ESAU
Satan knows that "skin for skin, yea, all that a man has
will he give for his life" Job 2:4
Esau sold his birthright and inheritance for a bowl of stew (Genesis 25:29-34).
When he sought repentance for it, it was not to be found.
(Though he cried tears of remorse) Hebrews 12: 16,17
Some will say, "But I have to feed my children....my
family"
If you need the courage to resist the MOB system for both you and
your loved ones, then please read
Genesis 22 ............ Abraham offers up
Isaac
"I have been young, and now I am old;
yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging
bread"
Psalm 37:25
Losing it all www.goodnewschapel.org/birthrig.htm
Forfeiture....scroll to "Warning # 5 part 1"
www.bible.org/docs/nt/books/heb/warn.htm#P464_86782
Note:
"You
only have power over people as long as you don't take everything
away from them.
But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in
your power----
he's free again." Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
No Chip For Me ! I Want to
be FREE !
A one-page mailer for you
to warn your friends with
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/nochip.html
SONG: I HAVE DECIDED TO
FOLLOW JESUS
"though none go with me, I still will follow"
"the Cross before me , the world behind me"
http://ingeb.org/spiritua/ihavedec.html
A QUOTE
"For many years the idea that humans
could somehow succumb to little more than branded cattle, and
that rugged individualism would thereafter be sacrificed for an
anesthetized universal harmony, was repudiated by America’s
greatest minds. Then, in the 1970’s, things began to change.
Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of a
"New World Order," presidential candidate Jimmy Carter
campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance of power
politics with world order politics."
http://www.worthynews.com/news-features/digital-angel.html
_______________________________________________________________
From Alan Trombetta:
"Are you ready to accept the Mark of the Beast on your
forehead, as prophesied? Of course not.
But what if it becomes the rage.. the cool thing to do... the way
for you to stand out in a crowd?
Well... some are already standing in line to be next........
sponsored by Advertising! ..... see it here....
Latest
fad ... Forehead Ads : Leading to the mark? ---April 10, 2004
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=40218
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or
in their foreheads: (Rev 13:16)
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(Rev 13:17)
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number
of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev 13:18)
KEY WORD: causeth..... this does not only
mean 'to force'... to cause also means to compel, to
entice.
KEY CONCEPT: make it acceptable to be marked...
tattooed... etc."
(thanks Alan Trombetta )
ARTICLES
:
(Are people in the
same category as animals and assets ?) I think not. Branding by
any other name is still
chattel-branding
"Security
Through Innovation" (adsx) -- July 26, 2004
Security for People
Security for Animals
Security for Food Chains
Security for Government and Military Assets
Security for Commercial Assets
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Jul/1059422.htm
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Jul/1057286.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040726/265348_1.html
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040726005348&newsLang=en
"chattel"
= A person considered as an object or thing ( such as a number in
a System)
rather than as a person.
Used for another's purpose; expendable; exploitable; a slave.
Some men trust in computers and technology; but our trust is in
the LORD our God !!
Jehovah-Jireh
A Chip in the Head ( under
the scalp ) -- September 19, 2005
"So I say, why bother with all the inevitable
lawsuits and legislative hot air? Let's skip to the next logical
step.
I hereby volunteer to be an RFID guinea pig. Just insert the chip
discreetly beneath my scalp, so I can get started on my
easy-as-E-ZPass existence.
Think of all the advantages: While you're stuck in
line at the supermarket, the better-than-barcode technology
embedded in my brain will allow the cashier not just to know who
I am and where I've been, but charge my groceries directly to my
account. Just a tilt of the neck, and I'm sailing on through. No
more fussing with my wallet or wondering which of my overburdened
credit cards to use. This is what self-checkout was meant to be.
The possibilities make my head spin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701111.html
Bio-Pay
BioPay is the leader and innovator in
biometrically-initiated payment processing. BioPay currently
processes payments for many types of merchants including grocery
stores, convenience stores, gas stations, general retail,
restaurants and offers features such as cash back for retailers
and customer controlled tip function for restaurants.
BioPay's biometric technology for check cashing and payments
has been used to complete more than 13 million transactions worth
more than four billion dollars. More than 1.5 million consumers
are enrolled in BioPay's Paycheck Secure service, making it the
most widely used retail biometric system in the nation. BioPay
has 29 patents pending covering its innovative technology.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050124/dcm042_1.html
Database Marketing News http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artcategory.cgi?category_id=6
IBM " Shopping Buddy" Touch screen Shopping Cart -- May
4, 2005
People can use a home computer to make their shopping
list. Once at the store, they can use their preferred customer
card, or a key that fits on a keychain, to log into a system that
will organize their trip through the aisles.
If you're looking for toothpicks, you type in the word or pick it
from a list, and the screen will display a map showing where you
are and where you can find them.
The Concierge and IBM's cart are equipped with the miniature
equivalent of GPS, the global positioning satellite system.
Sensors can track the devices to see right where your cart is, so
that as you turn into an aisle, the screen can show what's there
on your list and which items are on sale.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050504/ap_on_he_me/fit_smart_carts&printer=1
Articles on
"Pay By Touch"
Pay-by-touch
http://www.secureidnews.com/news/2005/02/02/biometric-payments-expanding-to-grocery-and-convenience-stores/
Biometric
buying -- Pay by Touch -- March 14, 2005
"Our regular customers have increased their
purchases by 12 per cent." (
Ed. note: another reason NOT to want this )
Retailers are also interested in the technology's easy fit
with loyalty
( Ed. : including 666 loyalty
in the future ) and age verification
programs
Ed. note:
In the future when
VeriChip is used, it will employ a 16 number unique ID.
Would that be for one's social security number plus one's
permanent phone number ?
SS has 9 numbers ; a phone # has 7 numbers = 16 numbers.
As cell phones become like "cow bells"...we could be
contacted anytime, as our phone number is essential to databases
( on National ID cards too ? ).
The fingerprint system also allows retailers to
identify shopping behaviour by the individual instead of the
household because each
person registers separately. This
means they can use the information they
are already gathering in their loyalty programs for more directly
targeted specials (
Ed. marketing manipulation ) . "Jane
Smith, come celebrate your 50th birthday with our special on blue
rinse!" If that seems more ominous than useful, it is not
much different from what is being done now in other ways.
Ed. -- manipulation is a form of
control ...dominance
Like credit cards, once a consumer is registered in a
biometric payment system with a merchant customers will be
recognized in any other store using the same branded system.
( Ed. - no anonymity...hence no real
freedom of movement ; more locatable )
Fingerprint matching seems to be at the forefront of retail
biometric applications right now, but there are many other unique
biological or behavioural characteristics that
could be used for biometric identification.
These virtual wallets can be blocked, deleted and revised as
necessary, she said.
The ultimate danger is giant databases that aggregate personal
information from different sources
Ed--Yes, the control
you once had over your own person is now handed over to the
System
( which has its own best interests at heart, and not yours )
Consumers already trust ( ha ha ha ha ha ) many companies
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/CS/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1110754209077&call_pageid=970599119419
Texas : Biometric Access http://www.biometricaccess.com/company/news.htm
Additional verification along with the
"search number"
Starting today, [ July 22 , 2004 ] Piggly
Wiggly customers in Charleston and Columbia, South
Carolina will have the option of paying for groceries using a
finger scan linked to their financial accounts. The Pay By Touch
payment systems are being used in all Piggly Wiggly checkout
lanes to provide a safer, more convenient way for shoppers to pay
for their groceries, while also allowing checkout lines to move
approximately 33 percent faster.
The one-time Pay By Touch enrollment takes just a couple
of minutes. Shoppers scan their fingers, enter a
search code, swipe rewards cards and/or payment
cards, and add their checking account information to build a
personal Pay By Touch Wallet, which is stored at secure IBM
data centers.
The Pay By Touch finger scanning technology does not store actual
fingerprints; instead, it creates a set of 40 data points that
cannot be reverse engineered back to a fingerprint. The data
points are then converted into a mathematical equation that
allows for a secure identity match at retail point of sale. Once
enrolled -- no matter what store or state they are in --
customers can simply scan their finger and select a preferred
payment method every time they pay
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040722/sfth004_1.html
IBM parnership
Through its partnership with IBM, Pay By Touch
guarantees that customers' electronic wallets and financial
accounts are stored in highly secure IBM data centers. The
partnership also played a part in Piggly Wiggly's selection of
IBM as its provider of choice for implementing Pay By Touch in
all of its grocery store locations.
http://www.secureidnews.com/weblog/2005/01/19/piggly-wiggly-extends-paybytouch-throughout-the-southeast/
Expansion
The Pay By Touch consumer biometric payment
technology is also currently being rolled out into 82 Piggly
Wiggly Carolina Co. stores throughout South Carolina, and it has
been operational in Washington State, Texas, New York and
Wisconsin. Pay By Touch plans to launch in additional national
retail chains later this year.
http://www.finextra.com/fullpr.asp?id=3109
Pay-by-Touch is already in use on the West Coast
and in several other areas. http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/money/3565519/detail.html
Roundy's Inc. will open its Metro Market concept
store on Tuesday [ August 17, 2004 ]. The store features a system
called "Pay by Touch" which links credit/debit
and checking accounts to a customer's electronic fingerprint.
Once registered, all someone has to do is put his or her finger
on a special pad next to the register and the transaction is
complete.
http://www.cbs58.com/cbsdata.cgi?_dhweb=form&_lt23r=home&kv=headlinenews.headlinenew_id=5817
Biometric systems used by consumers don't capture an
actual fingerprint. Rather, the electronic reader collects a
series of data points, which are unique to each individual, to
create a finger image. That image cannot be re-engineered into an
actual fingerprint.
At stores where biometrics is used as a method of payment, a
customer simply places his finger on the reader and enters his
identification code. The purchase is immediately authenticated
and linked to the proper financial accounts.
It's going to be a
complementary thing. It's not going to
replace cash and everything," McNally said.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/9287320.htm
"Pay By Touch Wallet," which is stored
at secure IBM data centers. The finger scanning technology does
not store actual fingerprints; instead, it creates a set of
40 data points that cannot be reverse engineered back to a
fingerprint. The data points are then converted
into a mathematical equation that allows for a secure
identity match at retail point of sale
http://www.cardweb.com/cardtrak/news/2004/july/28a.html
The scan won't work, of course, if a customer has
a cut or a bandage on the scan finger, so they are encouraged to
have a second finger scanned as a backup.
Eventually, such scanners could be in all sorts of stores
with people using them the same way they now use credit or debit
cards.
"The key is to get some type of critical mass," McNally
said.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/9223441.htm
Pay-by-Touch and Certegy
form alliance --
Jan. 2005
Can cash payroll, government checks
The new alliance will allow Pay By Touch users, for the
first time, to cash government and payroll checks at
Pay By Touch merchant locations across
the United States using the Pay By Touch finger scan technology
along with Certegy's Paycheck Accept Verification and Check
Guarantee services. Pay By Touch and Certegy will
begin offering the joint service
immediately to merchants throughout the
United States.
"Pay By Touch is committed to providing solutions that
increase convenience for shoppers and save money for
retailers," said Eric Bachman, COO of Pay By Touch.
"The Certegy alliance allows us to expand upon our existing
product offering to offer a safe, private, and convenient way for
consumers to cash checks at every-day-retailers such
as their local grocery store."
The one-time enrollment for the Pay By Touch/Certegy
check-cashing service takes about a minute at participating
retailers. Once users are verified with their
government-issued ID and social security number,
they simply scan their finger and add a search number (usually a
phone number) to create a Pay By Touch wallet. Whenever a
customer wants to cash a check, they simply place their finger on the scanner and enter
their search number. The biometric
information authenticates the customer's
identity and Certegy uses its proprietary risk modeling
technology to authorize the transaction.
Certegy, Inc. provides credit and debit processing, check
risk management and check cashing services, merchant processing
and e-banking services to over 6,000
financial institutions, 117,000 retailers and 100 million
consumers worldwide. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida,
Certegy maintains a strong global presence with operations in
the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Chile,
Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand. As a leading payment
services provider, Certegy offers a comprehensive range of
transaction processing services, check risk management solutions
and integrated customer support programs
that facilitate the exchange of business and consumer payments.
Certegy generated over $1.0 billion in revenue in 2003. For more
information, please visit www.certegy.com. St.
Petersburg, Florida
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050118/sftu059_1.html
Biometric: fingerprint
payment etc.
In Germany
Paying by Fingerprint at the
SuperMarket --March 15, 2005
BERLIN (Reuters) - Customers of a
German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their
shopping by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out,
saving the time spent scrabbling for coins or cards.
An Edeka store in the southwest German town of Ruelzheim has
piloted the technology since November and now the company plans
to equip its stores across the region.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20050314/od_nm/odd_germany_fingerprint_dc
Fingerprint Billing
for Germans -- March 15, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4344279.stm
Germany's Centrelink Grocery Stores also -- March 16,
2005
A German supermarket chain, Centrelink,
recently announced plans to institute a new form of payment for
its customers. The new method of payment would involve scanning
a person’s fingerprint so that they could buy groceries
without the inconvenience of carrying cash or credit cards. This
form of payment is believed to be more convenient for customers,
and the supermarket chain wants to bring a new measure of
convenience to grocery shopping.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=5406
More
Articles:
Shopping with e-wallets
In any case, ubiquitous chipping is years away.
The cost of RFID tags will have to drop from 20 cents each to
five cents or less if they're to grace trillions of consumer
items. Also, the signal doesn't pass through liquid or metal,
which makes it tough to tag a can of soda or a nine-volt battery.
And people may not like the idea of being surrounded by tiny
transmitters sending out electromagnetic radiation. Undaunted,
RFID chipmaker VeriChip is looking for big banks and credit-card
firms interested in offering RFID-based e-wallets.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5093197/site/newsweek/
VeriChip now
ATM--ready
---October 7-2002 ....radio-frequency ID
The new microchip patent involves a revolutionary
and proprietary new "unitary core" design. This
proprietary "unitary core" frees up more space within
the surrounding tube to accommodate a bigger, more powerful
antenna, which will substantially increase the range of
VeriChip's radio signal. The new design improvement also yields a
doubling in VeriChip's magnetic field, which helps to open up
enhanced applications - such as broader-range,
doorway/walk-through scanners - required for a variety of
security-related and building-access applications.
Cost efficiencies and performance enhancements
inherent in the next-generation VeriChip are also expected to
speed the introduction of a wide range of advanced VeriChip
applications in security and financial anti-fraud (including use at ATM machines).
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021007/72304_1.html (expired)
Subdermal
microchipping "best thing since sliced bread" -- Sept.
8, 2005
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16540172%5E661,00.html
Mark of the Beast ... Thomas Horn
http://www.worthyinsights.com/features/terrorism-sparked-mark.html
Let the Chips Fall where they may, but
not on me ! J. Grant Swank
http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_3903.shtml
What is VeriPay ?
http://www.xilo.com/flashpage1.htm
News
pertaining to VeriChip :
VeriChip's **
VeriPay System **---April
5, 2004
Baja Beach Clubs International had employed the VeriPay
System, developed by Applied Digital's
VeriChip Corporation, at a night club in Spain.
Launched at a global security conference in November, 2003, the
VeriPay System is a new syringe-injectable microchip implant for
humans, designed to be used as a fraud-proof payment method for
cash and credit-card transactions. The chip implant
is an advance over credit cards and smart cards, which, absent
biometrics and appropriate safeguard technologies, are subject to
theft, resulting in identity fraud.
We are the only
company today offering human implantable ID technology,"
said Scott R. Silverman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Applied Digital Solutions. "We believe the market
opportunity for this technology is substantial, and high-profile
successes such as in Spain will serve as
catalysts for broader adoption."
"The VeriPay chipping event was a huge success," said
Conrad K. Chase, Director of the Baja Beach Clubs International.
"Everyone embraced the electronic payment application. My
customers like the fact that they do not have to carry a credit
card or ID card with them. With the VeriPay system, they no
longer have to worry about their credit cards getting lost or
stolen."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040405/55471_1.html
November 21,
2003
VeriPay--subdermal solution for buying and selling (just like it says in Rev.
13)
Nov. 21, 2003--Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSX - News) an advanced
technology development company, announced that the Company's
Chief Executive Officer, Scott R. Silverman, in his speech today
at the ID World 2003 in Paris, France, revealed the Company's
newest subdermal RFID solution called VeriPay(TM). VeriPay
is intended to be a secure, subdermal RFID (radio frequency
identification) payment technology for cash and credit
transactions.
Notice that the word
"chip" is never used in this article. The word
"solution" and "payment technology" are used.
This means that the embedded chip in the hand works in
conjunction with a secure e-commerce SYSTEM known as
"VeriPay"
(see articles below for
further explanation)
VeriChip then is most likely used in conjunction with the VeriPay
transfer SYSTEM.
At ID World 2003 in Paris, Mr. Silverman made the point that the
subdermal RFID VeriPay technology specifically addresses the
security issue. VeriPay's unique, under-the-skin format
offers a much more secure, tamper-proof, and loss-proof solution.
VeriPay brings to consumers the benefits of fast and reliable
RFID technology along with the security of a subdermal format.
In announcing VeriPay to ID World delegates, Mr. Silverman
expressed his belief that VeriPay has enormous
marketplace potential and invited banking and
credit companies to partner with VeriChip Corporation in
developing specific commercial applications, beginning with
appropriate pilot programs and other market tests, for the
VeriPay subdermal RFID solution.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031121/215207_1.html
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20031121005207&newsLang=en
Photo : Hand
Scanner http://www.666soon.com/hand.htm
Global ID --WND
April 14,2004
The objective of this technology is to bring an ID system
to a global level that will destroy the need to carry ID
documents and credit cards," Chase said.
During a recent American radio interview, Chase said the CEO of
VeriChip, Dr. Keith Bolton, had told him that the company's
goal was to market the VeriChip as a global implantable
identification system.
Chase added, "The VeriChip that we implant at Baja will not
only be for the Baja, but is also useful for whatever other
enterprise that makes use of this technology."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38038
Big Brother or Mark
of the Beast ? ---
Becky Blanton
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/10/28/article_tn_blanton.htm
latest
press releases on VeriChip ...... ADSX http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=Adsx&d=t
ADSX Headlines http://www.adsx.com/news/adsxpressreleases.html
Commercial Use of the Forehead--Feb. 10. 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/02/10/offbeat.forehead.ads/index.html
Here is an article describing VeriChip:
" The $200 microchip can be encoded with information
such as a person's name and
Social Security number and
a list of medical allergies, then injected under the skin. "
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/2828025.htm
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/combine.html
TROVAN
( Germany ) -- also makes subcutaneous chips.
Human implantable microchip from TROVAN
http://www.trovan.com/productsunitrans.htm
Used by over 8 government agencies in 20 countries"!
This thing has a 7 to 15 inch read range.
MOB
Conditioning http://home.wanadoo.nl/henryv/666cond_eng.html
VeriChip available
to the American public ; Mobile unit coming
to your community
Each VeriChip is composed of FDA-accepted materials and
contains a unique verification number
that can seamlessly integrate to the Global
VeriChip Subscriber (GVS) Registry. This Registry
program will enable VeriChip subscribers to store pertinent personal verification and
healthcare information in the company's secure database. The GVS
Registry is hosted and maintained by Digital Angel Corporation's
(Amex: DOC
- news)
state-of-the-art, FDA-compliant operations center in Owings,
Maryland.
[ the Registry is a Database. There is
also a Registry - Database in Riverside, California ]
Information provided by the subscriber will be stored in the GVS
Registry database. Only information authorized by the subscriber
will be available for access via VeriChip's proprietary scanner.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020422/222229_1.html (expired)
Human
chipping centers available 24-7 as of May 10-2002
GLOBAL database Registry
Online
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020502/22172_1.html
(expired)
VeriChip ...
What is it ?
A high-tech scenario ---January
11, 2005
Many people are still missing from the Dec 26 tsunami. Some of
the dead cannot be identified. Rescuers are taking DNA samples
and extracting thumbprints from corpses.
In Phuket and many other locations, noticeboards of missing
persons have been put up and people are combing hospitals and
morgues to see if they can locate their loved ones.
Some current technology could have helped here. Here's one
possible scenario:
The VeriChip is about the size of a grain of rice, virtually
undetectable and practically indestructible once inserted under
the skin – usually in your right
hand or forehead. The chip has a special
polyethylene sheath that helps skin bond to it, so that it stays
in place.
comment: This is the FIRST
time VeriChip has been mentioned in regards to the forehead.....never before in print that
I know of. As RMS
points out, the forehead placement will most likely be for
amputees.
Also, they are currently putting the chip in the arm, so this is
a major change in focus here. This shows how VeriChip is being
poised for commercial
usage, rather than health and security reasons. A definite
heads-up.
Since the chip has no battery, there are no chemicals to worry
about and the chip never “runs down” – its
expected life is up to 20 years.
Comment : Does have
lithium .... that's the reason for Rev. 16:2
Please see http://www.bereanlife.com/signs.htm for details.
Tourists entering a country are scanned at the immigration checkpoint. They can pay for their taxis, groceries and hotel rooms with just a swipe of the hand. As they travel throughout their holiday destination, they leave behind an electronic trail which is recorded not only in this country but also in the home credit card company.
In the event of a calamity like the recent tsunami disaster,
the VeriChips can easily be extracted from corpses or the details
downloaded into a scanner before a quick burial. Details are fed
into a web-based data bank and instantly a victims list is made
available online to the rest of the world.
With the incorporation of a transponder into the VeriChip,
Comment : That has not happened
yet, but they like to give the impression that it is already part
of the chip.
sensitive scanners could locate missing persons or even
verify that the owner of that particular chip is no longer
alive.
Sounds like science fiction, but it is not. The VeriChip is
already commercially available ( see Rev. 13: 16-18) and the
"only " thing that prevents it
from being accepted by the general public is that it can lead to
the infringement of civil liberties and privacy.
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/1/11/corpit/9842301&sec=corpit
ABC Video www.adsx.com/content/abc_news.htm "Bionic
Credentials" (security chip) July - 2004
NBC Video ....
medical chip -- October 14, 2004
http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?i=e458174a-1d5d-4826-bba7-64f6e981e02e&menu=Home%20and%20Living&mi=NBC%20Today&p=
source_Today%20Show
A Subdermal Chip for buying and selling
The VeriChip microchip is a miniaturized, implantable radio
frequency identification device (RFID) for use in a variety of
identification and information applications. About the size of a
grain of rice, each VeriChip contains a unique
identification number that can be used
to access a subscriber-supplied database providing
personal related information.
To complement the VeriChip microchip, the proprietary
scanner is a scanning device that activates and reads the
RFID within the microchip. The scanner emits a small amount of
radio frequency energy that energizes the dormant VeriChip, which
then emits a radio frequency signal containing the VeriChip
identification number. The VeriChip subscriber number then
provides instant access to the Global VeriChip
Subscriber Registry - through secure
password-protected web access to subscriber-supplied
information.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/040217/adsx10-k_a.html
VeriChip - VeriPay set to replace
credit cards
Matthew Cossolotto, a spokesman for ADS who says he's been
"chipped", argues that competing proposals to embed
RFID tags in key fobs or cards were flawed. "If you lose the
RFID key fob or if it's stolen, someone else could use it and
have access to your important accounts," Cossolotto said. "VeriPay
solves that problem. It's subdermal and very difficult to lose.
You don't leave it sitting in the backseat of the taxi
http://www.silicon.com/software/applications/0%2C39024653%2C39117132%2C00.htm
2005 :
Big year for "proximity identification " ( nfc ) --
Dec. 10, 2004 rms
Convergence of contactless payment,
identity, and other services in '05
Another method of communicating with consumers in real-time will
be through SMS messaging and near field communication (NFC)
enabled handsets, which will also enable peer-to-peer
transactions independent of the underlying cellular networks.
SST expects to see significant numbers of NFC devices become
available in the next 12-24 months. In the peer-to-peer scenario,
an individual could purchase two concert tickets and sell one to
a friend via NFC handsets, without having to deal with the
exchange of cash or waiting for a check to clear. http://www.contactlessnews.com/news/2004/12/10/convergence-of-contactless-payment-identity-and-other-services-in-05/
What is VeriFy
?
It is your registration into their Global VeriChip Subscriber
Registry.
https://gvsregistry.4verichip.com/Products/VeriFy.html
What is WhyFry ? It is Revelation 14:9--11
Different
sizes
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2004/jimg101-1.htm
RESPONSIBILITY
of the Watchmen
"Is there
any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime."
"The dog did nothing in the nighttime."
"That was the curious
incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. ("Silver Blaze," Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle)
Are you being kept relevant on this issue at Church ? Are
ministers warning the people ?
Ezekiel 33:6
..."But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the
trumpet,
and the people be not warned; if
the sword come [injection needle]
and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his
iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's
hand."
May this never be said about our witness concerning the Mark of
the Beast.....
Isaiah 56:10...."His watchmen are blind: they are all
ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark;
sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber"
Silence is not Golden----it is yellow
LINKS
Steps toward the Mark of the Beast
http://www.stepstowardthemark.com/
LINKS to
MANY bio-metric Systems
http://www.biometrics.org/html/fingerprint.html
fingerprint
CHIPS
The SCM Micro smart card reader relies on AuthenTec’s
patented TruePrint™ technology, which allows fingerprints
to be read below the surface of the skin. The advantage of this
silicon-based technology is its ability to obtain accurate
fingerprint images and to avoid common recognition failures
relating to contamination such as dirt, grime, dry skin or
excessive moisture – issues that plague other surface-based
imaging fingerprint sensors.
http://www.authentec.com/press_room/article.cfm?ID=65
AFIS--
Automated Fingerprint Identification System----Tempe, Arizona
handled by the DPS--Dept. of Public Safety
http://www.tempe.gov/police1/Detention_Facility/computerized_fingerprint_system.htm
Interpol and AFIS
CONVINCED of the importance of using a worldwide Interpol
standard to transmit computerized fingerprint images from one
AFIS installation to another, in order to promote international
co-operation,
http://www.interpol.int/Public/ICPO/GeneralAssembly/Agn66/Resolutions/AGN66RES8.asp
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