Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

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Radio Frequency Identification CB Family, I view RFID & all the following infomation as a prelude to [url="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013:16%20-17;&version=9;]Revelation 13:16 -17[/url] (KJV)• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •16. 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: 17. 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.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • California Bans Forced Human TaggingOne of five RFID-focused California state bills introduced by Senator Joe Simitian was signed into law at the close of the legislative calendar: Governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill (SB) 362, prohibiting employers and others from forcing anyone to have an RFID device implanted under their skin. The bill will go into effect on January 1, 2008. Wisconsin and North Dakota have already passed similar bans. Four other bills Simitian penned are currently stalled, either on the Assembly floor or in committee. SB 28 would prohibit California's Department of Motor Vehicles from embedding RFID inlays in driver's licenses; SB 29 would prevent the state's public schools, school districts and county education offices from issuing any student IDs using radio waves to transmit personal information, or to enable such information to be viewed remotely to track attendance, until Jan. 1, 2011; SB 30 would restrict how RFID technology could be deployed in identification cards issued by governmental entities in California; and SB 31 would make it a misdemeanor crime to intentionally read, or attempt to read, a person's RFID ID document without permission. These bills can be considered again once the 2008 legislative years begins. WISCONSIN BANS FORCED HUMAN RFID CHIPPING Thursday, June 01, 2006 Groundbreaking Law Spotlights Opposition to VeriChip Civil libertarians cheered yesterday upon news that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed a law making it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip. Activists and authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre joined the celebration, predicting this move will spell trouble for the VeriChip Corporation, maker of the VeriChip human microchip implant. The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated Radio Frequency Identification tag that is injected into the flesh to uniquely number and identify people. The tag can be read silently and invisibly by radio waves from up to a foot or more away, right through clothing. The highly controversial device is also being marketed as a way to access secure areas, link to medical records, and serve as a payment device when associated with a credit card. "We're not even aware of anyone attempting to forcibly implant microchips into people," says Albrecht. "That lawmakers felt this legislation was necessary indicates a growing concern that the company's product could pose a serious threat to the public down the road." Although the company emphasizes that its chip is strictly voluntary, recent statements suggest this could easily change. VeriChip Chairman of the Board Scott Silverman has been promoting the VeriChip as a partial solution to immigration concerns, proposing it as a way to register guest workers, verify their identities as they cross the border, and "be used for enforcement purposes at the employer level." He told interviewers on the Fox News Channel that the company has "talked to many people in Washington about using it." The company has also confirmed it has been in talks with the Pentagon about replacing military dog tags with VeriChip implants. Wisconsin's anti-human-chipping law comes at a particularly bad time for VeriChip Corporation because it has an initial public offering of its stock in the works, McIntyre observes. "The company has been losing millions of dollars and has been counting on public acceptance to stem its losses and prove its future. The people have spoken. They don't want RFID devices in their flesh, and we expect other states will join Wisconsin in prohibiting forced chipping." Albrecht and McIntyre have dogged the VeriChip Corporation, revealing medical and security flaws in its human chip and warning about its serious privacy and civil liberties downsides in their book "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID." Wisconsin's new law was introduced as Assembly Bill 290 by Representative Marlin D. Schneider (D) and was passed unanimously by both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature this spring. The law makes it illegal to require an individual to have a microchip implant and subjects a violator to a fine of up to $10,000 per day. To read & understand more about RFID click on this "[url="http://www.spychips.com/]SPYCHIPS[/url]" link.