Medical News: WHO Says Cell Phones May Cause Cancer

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A work group of the World Health Organization has declared the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by cell phones to be "possibly carcinogenic to humans."
The declaration was made after a week-long meeting of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, which involved 31 scientists from 14 countries, who decided there was enough evidence linking use of cellphones to an increased risk of glioblastoma.
The declaration puts these energy fields into the IARC's group 2B for carcinogenic agents -- one notch above compounds "not classifiable" as cancer-causing because of inadequate evidence.
Other agents in group 2B include progestins and anti-epileptics such as phenytoin and phenobarbital.
Jonathan Samet, MD, of the University of Southern California and chair of the work group, said the "evidence, while still accumulating, is strong enough to support a conclusion and the 2B classification."
"The conclusion means that there could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link between cellphones and cancer risk," Samet said in a statement.
The IARC's group 2A classification -- probably carcinogenic to humans -- includes shift work involving circadian changes and high-temperature frying.
Benzene, hexavalent chromium, mustard gas, solar radiation, and other radioactive elements are among the agency's highest class of carcinogens, group 1, those with "sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity."
The WHO work group did not find that there was sufficient evidence linking cancer and environmental or occupational exposures with microwave energy.
The latest large-registry study on cancer and cellphone use -- the Interphone study, sponsored by both government and industry sources and reported last year -- found no conclusive link between talk time and glioblastoma. There was a significant increase associated with the highest levels of use, but researchers said spending that amount of time on the phone was "implausible."
In addition, odds ratios for other categories of cellphone use appeared to be protective.
Still, a recent study by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse -- known for their fMRI studies of the brains of addicts -- found that active cellphones changed glucose metabolism in the parts of the brain closest to the antenna.

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Violating The 4th Amendment… There Is An App For That | motorcitytimes.com

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Police Violating The 4th Amendment… There Is An App For That

Posted on April 20, 2011 by steve

Your iPhone has been tracking your whereabouts with out your knowledge.

Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronised.
The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone’s recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner’s movements using a simple program.
For some phones, there could be almost a year’s worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple’s iOS 4 update to the phone’s operating system, released in June 2010.
“Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you’ve been,” said Pete Warden, one of the researchers.

And guess who, besides a jealous spouse, can use this information? How about The Michigan State Police.
The Michigan State Police have a high-tech mobile forensics device that can be used to extract information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan last Wednesday demanded that state officials stop stonewalling freedom of information requests for information on the program.
ACLU learned that the police had acquired the cell phone scanning devices and in August 2008 filed an official request for records on the program, including logs of how the devices were used. The state police responded by saying they would provide the information only in return for a payment of $544,680. The ACLU found the charge outrageous.
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New software brings facial-recognition technology to mobile phones | Mail Online

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Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time. Eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how they are feeling.
The method is believed to be unrivalled for speed and accuracy and could lead to facial recognition replacing passwords and PIN numbers to log into internet sites from a mobile phone.
'Existing mobile face trackers give only an approximate position and scale of the face,' said Dr Phil Tresadern, lead researcher on the project.

Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time

'Our model runs in real-time and accurately tracks a number of landmarks on and around the face such as the eyes, nose, mouth and jaw line.


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RFID chips snooped from 66 metres

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Why spend so much time on this issue you may ask? Because people need to know what their near future is going to be like. No matter what we may believe. This is the technology that is sweeping over the World at a very fast pace.

Since Wal-Mart is taking such a beating for just marking their inventory items. I find it amazing how so many will not touch the very bill that will place this tags on all Humans in Not just America but all those who enter or around us as well.

The ones who are protesting so much and as news media encourages their arguments are now pushing the Federal Government to do their job.
Sounds good right?

Check out that Bill everyone is pushing so hard for the Gov to bring into effect.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111%3AH.R.4321%3A

 

National ID, And what many illegals will be calling a blue card as they go for Amnesty.

It's all in the bill. Please read it all.

Now, RFID, Biometric tagging of people can also have ID's and information stolen easily with things just like this very article below. Be sure to click the links.

clipped from www.theregister.co.uk RFID tags can be read at a surprising range, a researcher has found. When he's not listening in to GSM phone calls, Chris Paget has been busy seeing at what distance an RFID tag can be read, managing a respectable 217 feet. Paget also reckons the US military could read an EPC Gen2 tag from 80 miles off, though the connection would likely time out before any data was retrieved. Which is a shame as his calculations put the theoretical maximum read range at 317 miles, if you've got a big enough dish. Generation 2 tags aren't what we use in credit cards, or NFC-equipped phones, at least not yet. EPC Gen2 tags don't rely on magnetic induction for power and can thus be read at a much greater distance making them ideal for packaging and product labels, and the US Passport Card, among other things. As Paget explains in his report (pdf) Gen2 readers are more akin to radar in that they send out a radio signal

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DIY microchippers make implants a hobby

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"We've shown that we can actually transmit a computer virus to the chip and use that to infect the security access database in our laboratory."

It could also work the other way around, with a virus in a data system being transmitted to the wearer of an implant.

Gasson says this raises serious issues, especially with regard to implantable medical devices on which peoples' lives may depend.

clipped from tvnz.co.nz Graafstra implanted himself with two radio-frequency identification tags (RFIDs), similar to the sort of chips used in cats and dogs, five years ago. His family doctor used a pet injector to insert the second one in his right hand later that year. The chips help him do things like open the door to his home, log onto his computer and start his motorbike. "I have the skill to be able to utilise this technology in my daily life," he says. "All I've done is move the RFID tag from my wallet, or my pants pocket, to a skin pocket." Several Australians are among those to have embraced the technology, he says. Gasson, also in Australia for the conference, had an RFID-based implant put in his hand about a year ago, originally for access to his UK-based lab and mobile phone. Later, as an experiment, he deliberately infected the chip with a virus and found he was able to pass the infection on to the laboratory's security system.

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Human Carries Computer Virus in Implant for the First Time

Professor Capurro believes there are good and bad sides to the surveillance of implants. His concerns are with someone else tapping into another's implant and doing them harm as well as the abuse of human implants if used outside of the medical setting.

clipped from www.dailytech.com British scientist Dr. Mark Gasson from the University of Reading inserted a contaminated version of an ID computer chip, normally used to track pets, into his hand to help prove that the chip was able to pass computer viruses on to other external control systems. Dr. Gasson's chip allows him to pass through security doors and activate his cell phone. It uses ambient electromagnetic energy to transmit data. Through a series of tests, Dr. Gasson was able to show that the chip affects all surrounding computerized systems and if any other implanted chips connect to the system, they too would be damaged by the contaminated chip.  While digital implants can be beneficial to the progress of cell phone technology, Dr. Gasson warns that problems can arise with having so many surrounding systems interacting this way. Implant technology is also expected to traverse into the medical world (to some extent it already has)

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EyePhone: New Cellphone that tracks your eye.

clipped from century-hitech.com EyePhone The EyeMenu on a Nokia smartphone. While a user looks at the display, a button is highlighted if it matches the eye position on the display. The highlighted button is ready to be “clicked” with a blink of the eye. Dartmouth College researchers are giving a whole new meaning to the word iPhone. Ahem Make that Eye-Phone. Eye-tracking could soon be coming to cell phones, allowing hands-free control of mobile devices that goes way beyond voice activation, Technology Review reports. Blinking equates to a mouse click, allowing users to choose an application. It’s a pretty basic system, but the researchers hope to develop more advanced methods NeuroPhone — an iPhone that taps into your brain. That system uses an off-the-shelf wireless EEG headset to control an iPhone. A mind-controlled contact app flashes photos of contacts, and when the user sees the person she wants to call, her brain activity triggers the system and tells the iPhone to dial that person.

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Is your web cam spying on you?

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I can only hope that more people might take this stuff more seriously. If it's a computer, Cell Phone. Biometric ID, RFID, anything that connects to the internet, Phone towers or GPS. It can and will be hacked into. Why? Because they can. Don't be fooled in the saying. It's Secure.

clipped from www.kdvr.com DENVER - Web cameras make it easy to keep in touch with far away friends and family. If you have a web cam on your home computer, laptop or even your cell phone, a hacker can be lurking, just waiting for a chance to gain control. Right now, hackers are spying on innocent users via their web cam and microphones. It starts with a simple email, link or program sent to you. "The bad guys go out there and find vulnerabilities in different applications and programs," says Michael Gregg, COO of Superior Solutions Inc. Once you click on it, your computer is overrun by the hacker's program. The exploit programs can remotely turn on your web cam, watch what you're looking at online; even listen to what you are saying. Even worse, the longer these programs are available to hackers, the easier they are to use. Charles Tendell is a certified ethical hacker. He set up two laptops to explain how it works

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An identity for all: India ID project fights dust, doubt

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clipped from www.washingtonpost.com MUMBAI (Reuters) - As India gears up to build the largest biometric database in the world with the aim of providing most of its 1.2 billion citizens a Unique Identification (UID), perhaps the biggest challenge is smudged fingerprints. The UID Authority of India will issue the first UIDs linked to a person's demographic and biometric information between August and February, and issue about 600 million such IDs over the next five years to help verify citizens quickly and cheaply. It will be a boon for companies and government agencies alike. It would give millions of Indians the means to open a bank account, buy a mobile phone, and access welfare services easily, while saving companies and government agencies the expensive and time-consuming process of verifying and establishing identities. "The UID will hopefully enable better targeting, identification of beneficiaries, and plug leakages. If you can improve targeting by even 5-10 percent, it would be a big deal." http://www.jessewoodrow.com VERICHIP has now bought STEEL VAULT and has now changed their name once again to POSITIVE ID and for the FIRST TIME EVER now they will be combining MONEY & IDENTITY with a RFID CHIP!!! WOW!!! SIDE NOTE: youtube stats for this video showed that this video was the #1 Favorited video for all of youtube in the first 24 hrs! pretty cool... POWER IS KNOWLEDGE and people want to know this stuff!!

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REALITY REPORT #41 - The Tea-O Con Takeover

"); } http://RealityReport.TV | http://RestoreTheRepublic.com | Is Obama deliberately going after Goldman Sachs to further his own agenda? Are the Tea Parties starting to taste like fascism? Will Google give the Government your cell phone number? Are your favorite patriots websites about to disappear? Who did Bill Clinton compare the Tea Partiers to? Is there a Freedom uprising taking place on college campuses? The Reality Report Crew takes on those questions and delivers the facts in the 41st edition.

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Your Personal Memory Device. You Could Have One Today

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The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?

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clipped from www.cbsnews.com 60 Minutes: First Customers Say Energy Machine Works And Saves Money (CBS)  In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power plant-in-a-box they want to put literally in your backyard. You'll generate your own electricity with the box and it'll be wireless. The idea is to one day replace the big power plants and transmission line grid, the way the laptop moved in on the desktop and cell phones supplanted landlines. He says he knows it works because he originally invented a similar device for NASA. He really is a rocket scientist. "This invention, working on Mars, would have allowed the NASA administrator to pick up a phone and say, 'Mr. President, we know how to produce oxygen on Mars,'" Sridhar told Stahl.

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