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Monday, September 19, 2011

Online ID Verification Plan Carries Risks using RFID Chip and Biometrics to get online.

Hand with planned insertion point for Verichip...Image via WikipediaMany people actually think this could be a good thing. Using Biometrics to prove who you say you are. Though on the outside this seems like a great idea. On the inside, this is no different than numbering the Jews to wipe them out.

Social Media climbs at extreme rates. People hacking sites and information are only making it even worse for the people who use everything honestly.

The general idea of RFID seems to reflect a very good idea to keep track of products and animals. But now? The Dream Act, Obamacare and several other bills passed are pushing the idea to track and have ALL personal information on a chip. Using things like eye scans or fingerprints, Facial recognition to prove who you say you are. Sound like a good idea? You may want to re think before you begin supporting this major issue everyone seem to want to ignore today.

http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-imf-report-us-dollar-needs-to-be.html

All online data is easily hacked. Not some, Security is mostly just word not reality when it comes to online hacking. This also includes everything we use today. From your Cell phone or what they call Smart phones, anything basicly with the word Smart is a tracking system. That's why its called Smart. Also, All your info on your phone is and can be hacked. GPS for location, Facebook and G plus for who you are and what you look like, Friends and family and so on.

http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/2011/03/national-chip-id-card-for-american.html

There is also, New cards with RFID chips that combine all this information and is stored in a database. Along with new cars, plugs to go into your car. (for better rates) so they say. Gaming devices that go online, All social media, and phone numbers, banking info and the list goes on and on and on. All this can and will be placed on these chips. All for the your safety as it's called.



What many people don't know is that anyone with an 8 dollar scanner can and will and have already hacked these chips and shows how easy it can be done. Yet, it seems most don't have a clue about this. You can do a simple search on this site using the Word RFID. I have several links on this show this information. I will also post a few here.

http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/2011/05/76-countries-just-agreed-to-666.html


http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/search?q=RFID

See more here.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1567045/rfid_technology_soon_to_mark_us_all.html?cat=15
And here.
http://www.squidoo.com/NewWorldRFID
http://www.squidoo.com/RFIDpart2
http://www.squidoo.com/RFIDNewWorldpart3


Now look at this article and think, Is this really a good Idea?

See the full article here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/business/online-id-verification-plan-carries-risks.html?_r=1
Consumers who still pay bills via snail mail. Hospitals leery of making treatment records available online to their patients. Some state motor vehicle registries that require car owners to appear in person — or to mail back license plates — in order to transfer vehicle ownership.
But the White House is out to fight cyberphobia with an initiative intended to bolster confidence in e-commerce.
The plan, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and introduced earlier this year, encourages the private-sector development and public adoption of online user authentication systems. Think of it as a driver’s license for the Internet. The idea is that if people have a simple, easy way to prove who they are online with more than a flimsy password, they’ll naturally do more business on the Web. And companies and government agencies, like Social Security or the I.R.S., could offer those consumers faster, more secure online services without having to come up with their own individual vetting systems.
If the plan works, consumers who opt in might soon be able to choose among trusted third parties — such as banks, technology companies or cellphone service providers — that could verify certain personal information about them and issue them secure credentials to use in online transactions.
Industry experts expect that each authentication technology would rely on at least two different ID confirmation methods. Those might include embedding an encryption chip in people’s phones, issuing smart cards or using one-time passwords or biometric identifiers like fingerprints to confirm substantial transactions. Banks already use two-factor authentication, confirming people’s identities when they open accounts and then issuing depositors with A.T.M. cards, says Kaliya Hamlin, an online identity expert known by the name of her Web site, Identity Woman.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Signs of the Times: Surveillance Watching the US?

RFID veterinaireImage by muscapix via FlickrMore info, on this subject that so many want to continue to ignore. The more it is, the more it becomes our new laws. Dictatorship and control moving forward and fast. Mostly, because nobody is fighting it anymore. 

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2011/August/Big-Brother-Surveillance-Watching-the-US
WASHINGTON – Sept. 11 turned much of the West into a high surveillance society. And hi-tech devices could soon enable the government to track our lives more than we’d like.
Surveillance may not be at the level that author George Orwell wrote about in 1984, where “big brother” could see and control all. But experts say the tools are being forged to create such a world.
“We’re talking Little Brother now, and we're talking Big Brother down the road,” said Michael Ostrolenk, national director of the Liberty Coalition.



Scientific ID
Attempts to track terrorists and illegal immigrants have led to massive new efforts to identify people, using their body’s unique fingerprints, facial characteristics and iris patterns. A program called Real ID would marry this “biometric” information with a person’s driver’s license, making it easier to track.
“It would require all states to conform to national standards for your driver's license," Ostrolenk explained. "So it basically creates a national identity card.”
Visit the CBN Special Page: Sign of the Times - How Will it All End?
Amie Stepanovich of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told CBN News that many states are saying “no way.”
“Twenty-four states have enacted laws that say that Real ID will not be implemented in their state,” she explained.
Government Decides Who Can Work
The E-Verify system has also been proposed to boot illegal immigrants out of the American workplace. But both Ostrolenk and Stepanovich object to its overreach.
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Facebook, Walmart Becoming “666 Digital Beast” of the 21st Century

Logo of the anti-RFID campaign by German priva...Image via Wikipediahttp://altnewsreport.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/facebook-666-beast
Watch http://www.youtube.com/user/peltecs?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/0/3V38WT2YVlg
This is the final red flag alert for the approach of  overt social  fascism. There is nothing covert about what the TV reporter in the video clip above is describing. Do you see where all this is going? Do the math.  With facial recognition software in place on Facebook, whenever the FED is monitoring your conversation, they know who you are, by face, and they will intervene and “correct” your conversation if they feel you are crossing some line they have established. You are not only being watched and listened to which is unauthorized personal surveillance, but they will now tell you what you should or should not be saying, that is to say, they will “weigh in” and “correct the conversation.”
Outrage is not a word that even comes close to how I feel about this newscast. The sheer hubris and audacity evident in the statement staggers me.
Since when does anyone in Canada or America need to be “corrected” by some anonymous government official when they are in an online conversation?  Being surreptitiously monitored by the government is awful enough. The very premise of what this reporter is suggesting throws every constitutional right to privacy and free speech out the window. If these kinds of public mass PSY OPs, disguised as TV news broadcasts, are already airing in Canada, then how soon will PSY OP TV broadcasts like this one air in the US? Is the mass TV network PSY OP already creeping into America’s living rooms which will suggest, in oh so blithe and cheerful conversational terms, that it’s now “OK” not only for the FED to listen in and ID you by photo while you chat with friends online on Facebook, but to actually intervene in the conversation and “correct” it when they deem appropriate?
Read also: 666 Marriage From Hell: Facebook and RFID

I also quickly discovered that Christians and Christianity are not the “favored” identities to the computerized Facebook protocols. One evening I had another spooky and inexplicable experience. I wanted to place certain keywords in my profile so that other Christians could find me a little bit easier. [ My entire reason and motive for joining Facebook had been to not only investigate just how secretly rotten this portal is, but to examine how it worked and report on it, which I am doing now. ]
So I was trying to enter the keyword phrases like:” Jesus follower“, “Jesus of Nazareth”, “Lord Jesus Christ” “Christian Conservative” “Tea Party Patriot” and so forth into my profile. Every time I entered these phrases they vanished. They just disappeared. I entered and re-entered these keyword phrases 6 times over before I realized that the pre-coded protocols of Facebook WAS NOT going to allow me to place those phrases into my profile, yet there was a persistent ongoing effort to get me to put into the profile instead:






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Monday, May 9, 2011

76 countries just agreed to THE 666 EMBEDDED NATIONAL ID CARD that forces YOU to be Implanted with the 666 CHIP.

The front of a Spanish national identity cardImage via WikipediaDon't just take this as another Facebook post. I did some searching and found how real this actually is. I posted more here as you go down and there are more links to look at as well. I will be posting more on this very soon.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/james-robison/oh-my-goodness-76-countries-just-agreed-to-the-666-embedded-national-id-card-tha/168365319888439
The national ID is a card that comes from the "real ID ACT" that will be passed on may 11th 2011. ONCE

this "act" is passed the federal deadline will approach every U.S. state to see if they are going to go

along with it or starve to death. Because without it , you cannot get a job,drive a car,get a bank

account,fly on a plane,buy anyyyyyy food from any grocery store,you cannot ride on a plane ,you

cannot vote,in other words you will not exist without this "FEDERAL ID" . So whatever states refuse to

go along with this new "satanic approach" WILL BE COMPLETELY ignored and be subject to be labled as

suspicious.  So that means what?? Eventually they all will cave in. keep in mind you cannot just get the

card without being implanted with the chip in your right hand,having your eye scanned,and your

fingerprint taken. So give or take this should hit the public around the 15 of may to the 30th. Also I

want to add that this new process of people being implanted with a microchip will come in mannnnny

different forms, and the majority of formats might even have different names but will "STILL REQUIRE"

you to "BE CHIPPED".  Names like the Veri-chip, or RFID, or biometric ID , X-mark, Micro ID, etc, etc.

The different names and forms they come in do not matter because THEY ALL NEED YOU TO BE

MICROCHIPPED no matter what!!! And why does this sound familiar??  Revelation 13:16and 17-- And he

causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to recieve a mark in their "RIGHT

HAND",or in their foreheads.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. I am telling you about this because a remarkable

56 COUNTRIES  JUST SIGNED UP FOR THE NATIONAL ID CARD. Which countries am I referring to? 

Albania,  Argentina, Belarus(eastern Europe) ,Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia, Herzegovina,
Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, China,
Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia
Kenya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova,
Morocco, Montenegro, Mozambique, Netherlands, Panama, Pakistan, Peru, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia,
South Africa, South Korea, Spain,Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, and get this ,
France had a NATIONAL ID CARD since 1940!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

There are also, 20 countries that are signing up for it......

Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago,
Australia, Denmark, India, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines,and the United Kingdom.

That comes to a whopping total of 76 countries.

This link below is all the proof in the world !!!!!!!!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card_policies_by_country


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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Human Microchipping Verichip, Positive ID, Police State, Conspiracy or Mark of the Beast 666

Hand with planned insertion point for Verichip...Image via WikipediaIn case many of you missed this back in Jan 2011. I thought I would put a fresh reminder for those still trying to ignore new laws leading up to this. A real threat that's widely ignored. But first Let me post this.

Revelation 13 16And 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: 17And 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. 18Here 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.

Now check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSbHjAXD5A&NR=1
Human Microchipping, Verichip, Positive ID, Police State Conspiracy or Mark of the Beast, 666?

This video was produced by Psychetruth
http://www.youtube.com/psychetruth
http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth

Music by
Jimmy Gelhaar
www.jimmy.us



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Monday, March 28, 2011

Biometric Identification Begins In California for Anyone Arrested

Microchip rfid riceImage via WikipediaIf you don't know about Biometrics, now would be a very good time to study it out. This has to do with all citizens World Wide, not just CA, or the United States. This is a global effort to not just control every individual Worldwide but also to make sure they have every little piece of information about you physically and Mentally. Think it a joke? Start clicking the links here and also do a search right here on Todays World or google for that matter on RFID. This all has to do with Your Freedom. That is if you still want any that is.

It's time to wake up.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8326974-biometric-identification-begins-in-california-for-anyone-arrested
Biometrics for Identification
There are advantages and disadvantages of biometric security measures from both a technical and a social perspective.
As of last week, any person arrested and fingerprinted in California will now undergo an automatic immigration check. Biometric security measures are in widespread use, yet many issues are still debated - including privacy concerns. In this article, we are going to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of biometric security measures from both a technical and a social perspective.
California became the ninth state in which each county has activated Secure Communities, a fingerprint data-sharing program between local law enforcement offices and federal immigration enforcement agencies. Other states with complete activation include Texas, West Virginia, Florida, Arizona, Delaware, Virginia, Wisconsin and New Mexico.
Brighthub.com reports that biometric systems are used for identification and authentication, measuring and comparing people’s biological and behavioral properties such as fingerprints and voice, for example. Thus, taking into consideration the definition (*) of biometrics as characteristics, all biometric processes inherently rely on biometric security measures.
Biometric security measures can also be conceived as devices and systems which are designed to make something more secure, for instance a passport, by including a microchip containing data such as the passport owner’s facial, iris and fingerprint biometrics.
Secure Communities
The California Department of Emergency Services defines Secure Communities as a program between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Justice that automatically sends name and fingerprint information submitted through a federal file-sharing system, where it’s checked against both the FBI criminal history records and biometrics-based immigration records in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification System.
Secure Communities is one more stopgap to learn whether people are being honest about their immigration status,” a sheriff commander in Orange County stated. “Without this, we wouldn’t know that DHS would want to have contact with them; it’s automatic.”
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

National Chip ID Card For American Citizens: ID Act Effective On May 11, 2011 « BUNKERVILLE

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Official ...Image via WikipediaI can't count how many posts I have posted on this one. Here it comes and looks like it's a full force this time. Are you ready?
http://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/national-chip-id-card-for-american-citizens-id-act-effective-on-may-11-2011
The real ID Act is going to go into effect on May 11, 2011.
As of May 11, all driver’s licenses across the United States will be required to conform to federal national security standards.  In essence, our licenses are now going to be federalized. UPDATE: Russia just decided too that this is a swell idea! Rian.RU
A Fox News article from a couple weeks ago confirmed that these “national ID cards” will be required to board airplanes and enter federal buildings…. Put this together with  our earlier story: the DNA from eveyone at points of entry and it is complete: TSA to Start Collecting our DNA at Points of Entry
States must be in compliance by May with the regulations laid out in the 2005 REAL ID Act. The law, a recommendation of the Sept. 11 commission that investigated the 2001 terror attacks, creates a national security standard for state-issued identification cards to be used for purposes like boarding airplanes and entering federal buildings.
Of course the Department of Homeland Security insists that the Real ID Act is just here to “help” us and to make life “better” and “more secure”.  According to their website, some of the goals of the Real ID Act are “to help prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of personal identification documents.”
From the government on the type of chip to be used: www.gpo.gov
Now, there is no debate as to whether or not the card will contain a chip that is capable of tracking people, the only debate has been around which tracking technology better suits their needs. Here are a few quotes again from the official government document:
“ DHS also invites comments on how States would or could incorporate a separate WHTI- compliant technology, such as an RFID-enabled vicinity chip technology, in addition to the REAL ID PDF417 barcode requirement.”
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Expert: Credit Cards Transmitting Info To Thieves, RFID Be Warned.

Credit cardsImage via WikipediaFor several years now I have been trying to help warn people about RFID chips not only in Credit Cards but the use of them in ID cards and what is now chipping people under the skin for Obamas New Heathcare.
To see that so many still are not paying much attention to this I will include a couple of links here to keep you up to date. Though I have been posting these since 2008. I'm amazed on how many still seem to not know a thing about it. Be sure to check out some of my previous posts on this subject. Be sure to watch all the Videos as well.

http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/search?q=RFID

See more here.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1567045/rfid_technology_soon_to_mark_us_all.html?cat=15
And here.
http://www.squidoo.com/NewWorldRFID
http://www.squidoo.com/RFIDpart2
http://www.squidoo.com/RFIDNewWorldpart3

Be sure to see all the links above along with each video. 
Now for the news just in the past couple of days.

http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/26947272/detail.html
Click the link above to see the Video.
As credit cards become more high-tech, so too are the thieves trying to steal the information they contain.With the help of a radio frequency reader, FOX5 hit the Las Vegas Strip to find out how easy it was to steal information from unsuspecting tourists.
People on the Strip expressed surprise as their credit card number and expiration date was read back to them -- even though their cards had never left their wallets."I'm shocked, I don't like that," said Janet Kunz. "I don't like that all. I think the credit card companies should do something to protect us."Hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards are embedded with a radio frequency identification chip -- or RFID -- that the credit card industry says makes it easier for consumers to use their cards.The tiny chip inside the card communicates the account information to a merchant via a wireless reader.But only MasterCard -- one of the several credit card companies FOX5 reached out to -- responded, saying,
RFID cards "are as secure as paying with traditional MasterCard cards. Many consumers tell us they feel more secure with PayPass because they never have to turn the card over to a cashier and it never leaves their hand."The problem is that the RFID chip is always on, making consumers more susceptible to identity theft, said Walt Augustinowitz, a privacy advocate."You might as well have your card number painted on you because anyone who picks up this (card reader) online … will pick up that same information," he said.Augustinowitz said that thieves are able to buy card reader equipment through online stores, such as eBay."The idea is to get the info to people so they can protect themselves," he said. "If you don't know the door is unlocked, you don't know to lock it."

Is your credit card leaving you vulnerable?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/consumer&id=7971353


We have a consumer warning about your credit card. It could contain a simple chip that transmits your credit card information.
Typically, you'd have to wave your credit card past a reader to activate the chip, but the readers can be in the hands of the wrong people, leaving your financial information vulnerable. You use them to unlock doors, open gates and even pay for things with just the wave of a hand. The Radio Frequency ID Chip is the technology that turns your card into a key. Most people may not know it, but their credit cards may also have the chip.
Credit cards with a symbol of a chip on them, or if you have a passport issued since 2006, it has a chip. While the RFID can make life simple, some say the chips are playing a big role in electronic pick-pocketing. "One particular credit card which ended up the very next weekend having a thousand-plus dollars in fraudulent charges which I absolutely did not make," RFID victim Emily Williams said.
Williams is not certain the RFID chip in her credit card gave away her information, but the more she found out about RFID chips and the readers that can be bought online, the more she suspected technology.

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

YouTube - End of Liberty

"World News Now"Image via WikipediaThough this Video is a bit long. I feel it's somthing that most people should know about. In Todays World News and the issues we face on a daily basis. I find more and more people that try so hard to ignore the facts. America is in debt, Inflation is on the rise. Corrupted Politians only worsen the problems. Food prices on the rise, Along with Farms and land being taken over to growing and produce organic foods. Law maker have gone out of control. Security in the Airports taking away personal rights and freedoms. The list goes on and on.
Though the end of this video talks more about investing in Silver and Gold. I have to say this may be the only area I don't quite agree with. For on main reason only.
You see weather or not you Believe in the Bible or God for that matter, All of these issue are talked about in there that is refered to the End of Days.
A Global system and Global Goverments and even Global False Peace, in which most of the entire world will begin to believe at first. There is also the mention of a Global World leader that will seem to take control of everyones lives even down to fixing the problem of a Global economy problem.
The answer to this problem is what they call The Mark. Not saying that we have this just yet. But we do have the technology that is very capable of doing everything it speaks of. Including, Nobody will be able to buy or sell ANYTHING without it.
Read it for yourself here. Revelation 13

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=KJV
13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=KJV

Now without going into a long Bible study with this. You can see more in the book of Daniel and many others with even more detailed information on this subject.

Now, for those who understand who God is and the Bible. In order for Gold and Silver to take any effect in a Digital Monetary Global System. In other words. RFID Chips and ID's. We would have to sell the Metals to add to currency on our own specialized and Biometric chips in order to actually get something to eat or buy gas.

If you think this is not possible. You may want to do a search right here on the blog and For RFID and go through them. It's World wide and all over the news today.
Or you can just click here.
http://todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com/search?q=RFID+
As for the rest of this Video. Anyone that has actually Read the Bible should see the sign of every and each subject they are talking about here. Food shortages, Farm land take overs The budget of the World. Recessions, and a Global Control System happening right before our very eyes. This is no joke. You either google or do a search right here on Todays World News for each one of these and it will pull up every one of these subjects.

Part of the reason I started this page was to help people wake up. Being that we all live very busy lives. Who really has time to see all this? Maybe it's time to make the time.
What we don't know will indeed hurt us all in everyone of these cases.
Are you ready? Be sure to watch all of this. I will leave you with a verse.


http://nasb.scripturetext.com/mark/13.htm

Matthew 24

33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

http://kingjbible.com/mark/13.htm



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv-sdMCClQ&feature=autofb
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Privacy concerns grow with the use of RFID tags

Hand with planned insertion point for Verichip...Image via Wikipediahttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/06/BUCE1F8C1G.DTL
Be sure to see the rest of this story at the link above.

Last month, a three-day summer camp in Israel brought Facebook to the real world. Using bracelets equipped with radio-frequency identification tags and programmed with their Facebook log-ins, teenagers could "Like" objects and activities by holding their arms close to readers throughout the camp.
RFID tags - miniature chips that use radio waves to exchange data with reading devices - have been around since World War II, but with production costs dropping and applications sprouting at an unprecedented level, the industry believes the technology's time is now.
But while businesses see RFID as a way to obtain valuable information about their products' whereabouts, critics worry that the expansion of this technology might peel away yet another layer of privacy.
An RFID tag can be small enough to be fitted to an ant's back and often use little to no energy, activating only when they are close to a reader. They have been used for years to keep track of livestock, authenticate ID badges, manage inventories or pay bridge and highway tolls.
But as the technology has become more affordable, it is being used in new applications and areas of innovation, said Victor Vega, marketing director at Morgan Hill RFID firm Alien Technology.
Amusement parks have begun using them to help lost children get back to their parents; friends and relatives of marathon runners wearing RFID-equipped bracelets can follow their progress in a race; pharmaceutical companies are using them to detect counterfeits; and "smart cups" are using the technology to keep track of free refills, Vega said.
With costs as low as 5 to 7 cents per chip, IBISWorld industry analyst Casey Thormahlen said, RFID technology has really boomed in the last five years, and he expects the trend to continue in the next five.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Dattoos would be the ultimate user/machine interface

By Richard Wheeler (Zephyris) 2007. Lambda rep...Image via Wikipediahttp://www.gizmag.com/datto-concept-from-frog-design/15944
Still think it can't be used at the Mark of the Beast? Pay close attention to this article. Your DNA embedded in RFID Ink. 

Dattoos would be the ultimate user/machine interface

By Ben Coxworth
18:41 August 4, 2010
Dattoos would be printed onto the user's skin, and would identify the user via their DNA
Dattoos would be printed onto the user's skin, and would identify the user via their DNA
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Five years ago, Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger envisioned a technology that “could influence notions of community, identity, and connectivity with minimal impact on the physical environment.” Using an online design portal, users would select and try out a customized electronic processing device that they would then print onto their own skin. The DNA Tattoo, or Dattoo, could include printable input/output tools such as a camera, microphone, or laser-loudspeaker – it would be up to the user, as would the Dattoo’s aesthetics. Most intriguingly, it would capture its wearer’s DNA, to ensure an intimate user/machine relationship.
Conceived for the 2005 Forrester Consumer Forum, the Dattoo was a response to the still-increasing trend of self-expression through connectivity technology – in a sense, you could call it the ultimate smart phone skin. The idea was to “realize a state of constant, seamless connectivity and computability requir[ing] the convergence of technology and self.” This meant that the body itself would need to become the interface, and would supply the required energy. Because Dattoos would largely replace three-dimensional tools such as smart phones or laptops, the environment would be spared the costs of producing, transporting and disposing of those items.
Users in different geographical regions would be linked by common interests, and could communicate with one another, through their Dattoos. The unique DNA signatures would allow individuals to be readily identifiable, in a sense almost projecting users Second Life-style into cyberspace. Software would take a liquid form, in keeping with the Dattoo’s “organic computer” philosophy.
Despite evoking creepy Matrix-like images of permanent implants, Dattoos would actually be temporary and minimally-invasive. They could even be applied to clothing or other objects, instead of the skin. At the end of the day, they would simply be washed off. The next day, depending on what the user planned to do, they could order up and apply a new one.
Besides DNA-reading/identification, cameras, mikes and speakers, Esslinger’s ultimate vision was one of Dattoos that included nanosensors and interactive Braille-like "touch reading,” pattern and image recognition, self-learning and educational applications, living materials that change shape and feel, flexible OLED displays, bionic nano chips and cyborg components.
In the past five years, we’ve definitely gotten closer to Dattoos becoming more than just a concept. An example from this year is the Skinput, an experimental system that allows users to control electronic devices via a display projected onto their arm.
Just one of the ideas shown here.
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