Company requires RFID injection

[Newsjock]

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/134
Published: 2006-02-10

Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of a new requirement to access their company's datacenter.

Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the policy with the hopes of increasing security in the datacenter where video surveillance tapes are stored. In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a release from spychips.com said on Thursday.

http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=1237&display=RFID

Six Sigma Security, Inc, announced the successful installation and integration of the access control module of VeriChip Corp's VeriGuard Security Suite, including VeriChip's human-implantable RFID microchip, as part of an integrated security solution for CityWatcher.com. As a provider of video surveillance, monitoring and video storage for government and business, CityWatcher.com chose VeriChip Corp. to augment and enhance its overall security solution.

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[annabanana]

2. Let's get this to the Greatest page..

It will astonish and infuriate.(or at least it should)

[acmejack]

3. Would have been the day I resigned.

No Fing way!

[gator_in_Ontario]

4. WAY!!!

[Cobalt Violet]

5. That's just nuts! n/t

[Callalily]

6. This is totally

mind-boggling! What is their reasoning, their logic for replacing the security key chains with something so invasive as implantation! How could these employees consent to such a sinister ploy?

[mcscajun]

7. Willing assimilation...no Borg attack required.

Ugh.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. The chips are definitely down for these two.... the rest of us can

read a somber eulogy for their civil rights when it feels appropriate. These are the only chips I'll insert...

[mcscajun]

11. With salsa or cream cheese?

I go for the Fritos Scoops, myself. More dip that way. :)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. With crawfish of course... silly you!!! n/t

[mcscajun]

34. Silly? Moi?

Absoluement!

:rofl:

[Spiffarino]

9. Mark of the Beast! Tell your fundies!

Tell them the Apocalypse is nigh, and it's all happening under Bush's watch. Will they still trust GWB as their Living Godhead?

Fake edit: They'll refer to it as "Freedom Tagging."

[C_U_L8R]

10. Six Six Sigma

Here comes the apocalypse.... all good fundies should report to heaven right away.

[drm604]

13. We need federal protection against this type of job requirement.

And this is an issue that the fundies will agree with us on (or at least they should). "Number of the beast." "New world order." etc.

[RhodaGrits]

14. The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks - it ain't fiction. n/t

[Daphne08]

15. WHAT? This is insane.

[RazzleDazzle]

22. It's not insane. It's fascism.

[file83]

29. Bingo - insanity is unplanned. Fascism is carefully calculated.

[EVDebs]

16. Spychips book by Albrecht. Begs question, how come OBL still loose?

Total Surveillance
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2005/12/albrecht.html ...

Couple this insidious technology with purposely erroneous background checks

Who is checking the background checkers?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p13s02-wmgn.html

They've offshored, outsourced, and privatized TIA. Now all they have to do is fire you for being 'of the wrong political party' and put false information in your background data...and voila ! You've just created the most insidious terror project in the US ever.

If they can track my underwear purchased from Wal-Mart, how come they can't track the kidney dialysis equipment OBL requires in his lair between Afgan/Pakistan ? Not that * really WANTS to capture the guy (he doesn't really worry about him, remember ?).

[cascadiance]

17. Damn don't scare me... I'm in the middle of a background check right now.

To work on another project within my company. It was supposed to take a week, and still isn't finished yet after close to three weeks now. It's been like that for my office mate too, so it's probably bureaucracy. But they'll probably turn up things like the State of California's erroneous withholding of my state income tax refund because they say I falsely claimed unemployment benefits, which I had to go to court to show that they were the ones that messed up their paperwork instead of me doing something wrong. The judge laughed when he saw me at their BS vs. my documentation, but how does that show up to those doing background checks? One really wonders!

There's NO WAY I'd get an RFID chip implanted in me. I have a hard enough time with the idea of one being planted in a passport I might get in the future. There was speculation that terrorists could have an RFID scanner that could see how many Americans are nearby them before setting off a bomb or the like. The solution with passports is to carry them in a "shielded" folder or something like that so that they could only be scanned by those at gates where needed, etc. to avoid this. But if you had them implanted in you, what's to stop them from scanning you then. Not to mention, I wonder what would happen when you are being screened in airports with that in your arm? Might be minimally a hassle of it going off all of the time. Might be that they scan that RFID then each time you go through a gate too.

[Kittycat]

18. Finally! Undefeatable security!

They wouldn't do it otherwise, right? Right?

:eyes:

[Nay]

19. Here we go. That would have been my last day at work, and I would

start hiring my oldass self out on a fishing boat or something. I can see this becoming the next big thing in getting us all to line up like good little worker bees. Jeez. Is there no line they will not cross?? Don't answer -- I know already.

[progressoid]

20. Double Plus Ungood

[file83]

30. Goodspeak! Just remember...

[Mythsaje]

21. No way in hell...n/t

[yy4me]

23. Years ago, I would have told you that stories like this

and other actions by this administration and businesses supporting it came from a Rod Serling script. We are in the Twilight Zone. No script, real and frightening.

[Straight Shooter]

24. There is something just very wrong about this, just basically wrong.

This is invasive beyond any rationale for security.

[suffragette]

25. insidious and ironic

Insidious in that they are opening the door to doing this to people by promoting the security angle. Didn't this also happen awhile back in Mexico in a similar situation?

Ironic given this part in the article: "Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent discovery of Jonathan Westhues, where the security researcher showed the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant’s authentication. When contacted, those at CityWatcher were unaware of the chip's security issue..."

[EC]

26. So it's finally come to the company owning you... n/t

[crispini]

27. Absolutely horrible.

Can't believe it.

[midnight]

28. It started with us peeing in cups

They said it was for drugs. Then they installed cameras. Next they needed to read our e-mails, and listen in on our phone conversations, computer chip our driver's license, and last but not least implant us with a chip.

[seemunkee]

31. Barcelona nightclub chips customers

Story from May or 2004
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/19/veripay/
Yes that's right - Annanova reports how 'VeriChip' means regular clubbers at the Baja Beach will "no longer have to wait in queue to pay to get in". Absolutely in this modern age is obviously far easier to have a "brief outpatient 'chipping' procedure lasts just a few minutes and involves only local anaesthetic followed by quick, painless insertion of the VeriChip" than to flash the cash.

[hunter]

32. Cool. kidnap guy, cut chip out, become someone else!

Just remember to sterilize the chip first before inserting it into your own arm.

This is much, much easier than stealing another guy's eyeballs or fingerprints... No need to hire some back ally identity-theft surgeon; this is a do-it-yourself project.

[centristo]

33. I think your title is misleading

as this instance does not appear to be compulsory. I do not think the employees were required by CityWatcher.com to get these. It appears to be a test. The FT covered the story as well:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ec414700-9bf4-11da-8baa-0000779e2340.html

But Sean Darks, chief executive of CityWatcher, said the glass-encased chips were like identity cards. They are planted in the upper right arm of the recipient, and “read” by a device similar to a cardreader.

“There’s nothing pulsing or sending out a signal,” said Mr Darks, who has had a chip in his own arm. “It’s not a GPS chip. My wife can’t tell where I am.”

The technology’s defenders say it is acceptable as long as it is not compulsory. But critics say any implanted device could be used to track the “wearer” without their knowledge.


--As long as these chips aren't "homing devices" they aren't too big of a deal to me. If I could get my Metro card implanted into my ass it might be kind of useful.

[rexcat]

35. One of the people "chipped" is the President and Owner of the company.

He would not ID the other individual but my guess is someone high up in the company as well. If that is the way he wants it done that's ok with me but I don't think I would work for a company who would require or suggest me having a microchip inserted in my arm!