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Friday, December 23, 2005

BIG BROTHER



How Spy Chips Are Quietly Reshaping Privacy

You may not realize it, but that pack of disposable razors you just bought can enable you to be tracked wherever you go. Same with that discount card you used to buy the razors in the first place.
Somewhere, a computer is collating and tabulating all of your information from the moment you step into the store, and using it to generate a "profile" of you for unknown purposes.
Not only that, but soon you could have a little microchip implanted in your body to be electronically "tagged" and identified in order to build a record of your medical information, accessible anywhere in the world -- and for other purposes you may not know about.

[Radio frequency identifiers (RFID chips) are a reality in everything from retail business to medical records.]