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Sensors camouflaged as rocks, trees etc.

mesh networking
http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39156722,00.htm

Wi-Fi rfid chips -- no readers necessary -- March 31, 2006
G2 Microsystems Inc has released its first product, an RFID chip for tags that can be read by WiFi access points. By doing away with a network of readers, the chip may give users as much as a 75% reduction in total cost of ownership, according to G2.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=936848EC-6412-4A6A-B71D-76F99C0C9E3F

Tiny motion sensors placed everywhere -- Feb. 21, 2006
The chip uses about one-thousandth of a watt of power, meaning it has the potential to operate for as long as a year on a standard watch battery. It is also extremely sensitive, so much so that it can register sound as well as motion.

Although developing the first few sensors was expensive, Xie estimated it could cost $10 or less if mass produced. He and his graduate students have installed several sensors in a cigarette pack-sized board of electronics to test their capabilities. UF also is pursuing a patent on the sensor.
“Eventually, you can wear all kinds of sensors with you to monitor everything you want to know — your heartbeat, your blood pressure or even something like your glucose concentration,” Xie said. “I think this is a very interesting, exciting field that will eventually help people live much higher quality of life.”
http://www.mtbeurope.info/news/2006/602023.htm
The Radio Frequency Identification Chips are small, some dust sized, and can either respond to a signal or emit a signal. These types are already widely used.
Also, this could lead to treating human beings as robots or machines. They are just small, dispensable, insignificant components in a giant structure.
http://www.thepolypost.com/story.php?story=3123

Surrounded by sensors ...slide show
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/07/surveillance/source/1.htm

Tracking Immigrants ( and everyone, everything, everywhere) -- Sept. 5, 2005
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 and can only transmit information from a distance of up to about 30 feet. "Active" tags have an internal power source, can be read from further distances, and can store information sent from a transceiver [ Ed: active tags are external and are embedded in clothing and shoes, etc. ]

Lee Tien, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The NewStandard that RFID is popular because it is convenient, ...Tien predicts these technologies will likely become more interoperable and standardized. "And then we’ll have a situation where there will be a lot of cards, a lot of chips, a lot of readers all around us, and then there will be a really serious problem," he said.

Immigration attorney Angelo Paparelli, a partner with the California- and New York-based law firm Paparelli and Partners, is concerned about secret courts or rogue officers using RFID to identify individuals. Paparelli theorizes that people carrying RFID tags, who might be attending a public demonstration or seeing a controversial speaker, could be remotely identified as foreign nationals, asked to provide their I-94 card, and questioned about their activities in the US.
"The explosion of computers, cameras, sensors, wireless communication, GPS, biometrics and other technologies in the last 10 years is feeding what can be described as a surveillance monster that is growing silently in our midst," Steinhardt wrote in July 2004 comments to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce

As the technological inhibitions against surveillance disappear and RFID expands, says Steinhardt of the ACLU, the laws and institutions that protect against abuse need to be strengthened. "Unfortunately, in all too many cases, even as this surveillance monster grows in power, we are weakening the legal chains that keep it from trampling our privacy."
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2324

Motion-detection sensors and non-motion sensors placed throughout NYC transits
thousands of cameras and motion sensors under a high-tech strategy;
The upgrade will also include enabling mobile phone signals on the subway.
The authorities said concerns that this could help the detonation of bombs were outweighed by potential advantages.

More than 1,000 cameras and 3,000 sensors will be installed at platforms, stations and terminals, on bridges and in tunnels, but not in train carriages or buses themselves.
The cameras are said to be able to capture images from 100m (300ft) and to zoom, pivot and rotate.
Sensors will be able to detect non-moving objects left on a platform.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4180418.stm

RFID tags in clothes, shoes etc.
KSW-Microtec, a German company, has invented washable RFID tags designed to be sewn into clothing. And according to EE Times, the European central bank is considering embedding RFID tags into banknotes by 2005.
Imagine: The Gap links your sweater's RFID tag with the credit card you used to buy it and recognizes you by name when you return. Grocery stores flash ads on wall-sized screens based on your spending patterns, just like in "Minority Report." Police gain a trendy method of constant, cradle-to-grave surveillance......

But what about a more powerful RFID reader, created by criminals or police who don't mind violating FCC regulations?
Eric Blossom, a veteran radio engineer, said it would not be difficult to build a beefier transmitter and a more sensitive receiver that would make the range far greater. "I don't see any problem building a sensitive receiver," Blossom said. "It's well-known technology, particularly if it's a specialty item where you're willing to spend five times as much
http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html
and
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/45515.html
and
http://www.dcpages.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5110

Embedding clothes with chips ( China, etc. ) -- April 2006
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textiles-technology-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=15298

MS Location Finder ... No hide Wi-Fi
Microsoft Location Finder is a client-side application that turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or PC into a location determining device without the addition of any separate hardware. When launched by a user, Microsoft Location Finder uses WiFi access points - or reverse IP lookup when WiFi is not available - to center and display the person's location on an MSN Virtual Earth map, enabling the user to quickly and easily search in their present location.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B5E8C83A-EA8E-4464-9980-7B6A8DD1013C&displaylang=en rms

GPS Tracking is different from data-tracking
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gps6.htm



GPS requires an EXTERNAL device -- Sept. 6, 2005
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2005/09/06/build/technology/25-gps.inc

GPS tracking means that we have all become "geoslaves" with our "blackboxes" -- Sept. 2, 2005
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=SURVEILLANCE-09-01-05&cat=AN

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