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In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School – two schools in the Northside district. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to “make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose ‘smart’ ID card.”
In order to check out school library books, register for classes, pay for school lunches, the “smart” ID card is being employed to trace and track students and their movements on campuses all across America. By using leverage of educators to coerce school districts to adopt this method of tracking students, the argument for the use of the RFID technology is campus safety, efficient registration, and food and library programs.
In Austin, Texas, collaboration with the Global Positioning System (GPS) and RFID technology is being used to deter students from skipping classes. In fact, those students having a negative record with the school they attend are being targeted to be under surveillance.
An estimated 1,700 students have already been pledged to the program with parental permission. These students are assigned a “mentor” who oversees the actions of the students and to whom the students must contact on a weekly basis to report to. This is reminiscent of having a parole officer for student who have not committed a crime, yet are being touted as pre-criminals.
We are already being tracked through several modes :
• GPS
• Internet
• Traffic Cameras
• Computer Cameras and Microphones
• Public Sound Surveillance
• Facial Recognition
Even neuroscientists at University of California Berkeley used a technique where they monitored the brain activity of individuals as they listened to words being spoken. As the subjects listened to the words being spoken, a computer program analyzed brain activity in the temporal lobe, and how the brain interpreted and recreated specific words or sounds.
IBM is working on mind reading technology and a bar code reader that can read your DNA.
RFID chips used in cell phones can track a user within centimeters of their GPS location thanks to new technology being employed in smartphones. Apple, Google and Microsoft have been tracking their customers for years, storing personal digital data and collaborating with law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The CIA is able to remotely intercept and access every email, phone call, text message, chat, and even direct conversation supposedly held in the privacy of your own home.
CIA Director David Petraeus spoke before Congress, speculating about the “internet of things”. Petraeus said:Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification [RFID chips], sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing . . . the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.An indicator of these plans can be found on the underside of any electronic device in your home. Even on the underside of a simple calculator, toaster oven, and even your refrigerator; you will find the following:
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.What this disclaimer means is that this device is not allowed to jam or block any signals and must accept any incoming signal given (by FCC regulations under Part 15 of the FCC Rules).
The uses of these chips appear sensible and harmless until you think about the implications of being remotely tracked by nearly everything you own and come into contact. When a technology is imbedded in all facets of our lives, then it may come to mind to question its purpose. The RFID chip can and has been used to gather information an individual would not otherwise readily give.
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12 comments:
All the more reason to keep your old appliances in good repair. This is technology that will worm its way in by attrition as people's appliances die and they replace them. But there are still fridges out there even from the 1950's and 1960's that work.
Eventually even our light bulbs will spy on us. But right now, if you are away from electronics, they'd have to send someone after you with a shotgun microphone.
It's a good reason to learn some obscure tribal language or a new version of code talking that they would have to go to a lot of extra effort to decode. It's also a good reason to learn how to make jamming devices.
Suggestion, when you meet with your "mentor", beat the crap out of the SOB and tell him to mind his own f'ing business.
So basically the mentor thing is interrogation by some potbellied cps pedo in his 50s about if daddy has guns in the house, if daddy anf mama quarrel a lot, if the kid is getting enough junk food to eat, if the kid is having sex and possibly even the pedo blackmailing them for sex and kiddie porn. Fuck that, take me out of that school Daddy because I'm not going anymore.
There is NO way in hell they would get my consent to tracking my child or grandchild. This crap needs to be halted, by whatever means it takes.
Junk science... What if a child is mentally challenged? Do these geniuses have an RFID chip for that?
Part I:
As chief editor of "Occupy Corporatism", you might consider hiring a technical consult.
As a whole, the article conflates random forms of communication under some sort of "RFID" umbrella. Not every piece of electronics is RFID. Not every form of communication is RFID. Not every radio device is RFID. Even within devices one accurately *could* deem as being RFID, there are sweeping qualitative differences between types of devices that tend to invalidate any "one hate fits all" broad brush attacks.
For example, your first four paragraphs describe what are likely two different types of RFID, and a GPS tracker that isn't RFID at all.
The first paragraph, those are e-field parts, and are used to track the movements of students in the building. That one's sort of right for the theme of the article.
Point-of-sale parts, such as the ones you are speaking of in the second paragraph, are generally NOT used to track movements - you really don't to ring up sales at a cash register with a part type that will respond from every student near the till. Most of those are going to be near field parts. The ones in my student ID were near field. Near field parts are NOT useful for tracking student movements.
The third paragraph describes a GPS tracker - not RFID at all in a strict sense. It's a stripped down GSM cell phone, basically.
Part II:
Your list of "tracking modalities" is both incomplete and in some points inaccurate, unless you really open up the definition of "tracking".
• GPS
Not at all. GPS is not capable of tracking anyone. This is a common misconception. Devices like the student tracker in the third paragraph are not just GPS receivers. They're GSM cell phones. It's the cell phone part of it that gives you the data of where the tracker is. A GPS receiver by itself does not. This bullet ought to have been "cell phones" - they do that one all the time.
• Internet
After the fact, I suppose. Eventually, they can find that someone saying they were you was at a location. Later, if you're taking any steps at all. Much later if you really work at it. There was a sort of exercise to see how hard that is to do in real life, the TLA that got my real world name had to resort to invasive social engineering - the IP they had didn't get the job done. This doesn't really rise to "track" IMHO. Now, if you take NO steps at all, yes, it's a matter of seconds to locate where you're posting from.
• Traffic Cameras
In the real world, this doesn't work nearly as smoothly as 24 would have you believe.
• Computer Cameras and Microphones
Nor this. Just don't connect a camera or microphone. I've got them - in my desk drawer.
• Public Sound Surveillance
Another one that's more hype than reality.
• Facial Recognition
Bang on.
Also:
Any payment other than cash
Use of affiliation cards like grocery discount cards
Iris patterns (this one's an up and comer - it works too)
Gait/posture/physical build (several ways to work that one)
Using a phone anywhere, cell or not, yours or not
Often, just having associates, related to...
Behavioral pattern analysis
Part III:
"Even neuroscientists..." non sequitur. Not RFID, not related to the article really.
"IBM is working on mind reading technology and a bar code reader that can read your DNA."
Again, non sequitur, but also not correct. The source articles reveal that IBM's Emerging Technology group predicted that some low level form of "mind reading" i.e. being able to issue some sort of basic command to a computer by thinking a pre-trained command thought might be developed. Sort of like those hokey game playing headset things. You might have read in that same article that the thing required a hat with electrodes in.
And it's not a "bar code reader" that can read DNA. The original articles, again, said they might one day have "a device that can sequence DNA sort of like a bar code reader reads a bar code". In this case, what they had was a one-off nanopore transistor in a lab that could identify a base pair. That leaves off all the other massive development and logistic problems - like getting a cell, finding an intact nucleus, taking it apart, getting individual chromosomes, unwinding them from histones, un-supercoiling them, getting them into the device, mechanically sequencing them through the thing without breaking the strand, poring through all the data etc. It's not like they've got a grocery store reader that is reading cans of beans one second and tracking you the next.
"RFID chips used in cell phones can track a user within centimeters of their GPS location thanks to new technology being employed in smartphones."
It's not RFID. It's a smart phone. They don't have RFID chips in. Again, not all technology is RFID, not all radio devices are RFID.
"The CIA is able to remotely intercept and access every email, phone call, text message, chat, and even direct conversation supposedly held in the privacy of your own home."
None of that's RFID either, except it's also not all true. That's more NSA, not CIA. The direct conversation thing is hokum. There are differences between TLA's, sort of like not all electronic devices are RFID.
Anyway, phone calls by landline or cell are definitely up for grabs by NSA. Whether they actually DO it or not is subject to a lot of USSID fluff, and whether you are worth the effort, and who wants to know, and if they can request that sort of thing etc. More to the point, though, is that any LEO can get a court order to do it as well through CALEA, no TLA needed, although they can't do it as well. It all goes through a phone company switch at some point, and there it can be intercepted, tracked, recorded and whatnot. Not that many years ago I could get something like that done without a court order. I can still get your cell phone call records. THAT ought to be stopped.
The email, chat etc can also be done through CALEA. It's easier to do that at the ISP using CALEA, because once it's on the backbone it's harder to piece back together.
Part IV:
"CIA Director David Petraeus spoke before Congress, speculating about the “internet of things”. Petraeus said..."
This was blue-skying about something that might be done in the future, using stuff you don't have yet for the most part. Using the cloud is pretty stupid though, you're giving intelligence agencies your files, which if you had anything of any interest, I'm sure they would love. But just using it tells them where you were at the time.
"An indicator of these plans can be found on the underside of any electronic device in your home. Even on the underside of a simple calculator, toaster oven, and even your refrigerator; you will find the following:"
Not at all. What that means is that you've got a device with a clock rate over 8 KHz, probably an embedded micro. It has no other implication. Your calculator doesn't have little spy chips in it to tell the bad satellite where you are and what thoughts you're thinking. It's just got a micro in. The same with any other device in your list. That part 15 warning doesn't mean it's CIA Approved for Snooping.
"Junk science... What if a child is mentally challenged? Do these geniuses have an RFID chip for that? "
While RFID isn't for curing mentally challenged children, there are devices, again basically stripped out GSM cell phones, that you can clip to your mentally challenged kid to find where they got to when they ran off. Also for Alzheimer's patients. That's actually not a bad use of GSM tracking devices.
Schools should be able to track students the old fashioned way - take roll call. The claim is that the chips can only be read on school grounds and yet they can track a child on the school bus? Think about that one long and hard. A simple reading device may let a hacker in.
Will this "tracking" stop at our school children and will a badge be all that's required? Think again. We already put chips in our animals. A few years back congress was voting on whether to implant RFIDs in Airline employees. Do you honestly believe it would stop there? Yeah, me either.
My gal Kelli, a factitious character in my short story rallies against the RFID also! You can find the eBook on Smashwords, Amazon or Barnes & Nobles. It is completely fictional but should still make you think. Google "The RFID Truancy Solution" to find it or get it from Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YPRDVC
It's really depressing that the government is taking away our privacy, under the umbrella of security and safety. We are losing all our rights to privacy. the government used 911 to get the laws they wanted passed. These laws allows them to invade our privacy without us even being notified as to when and why. They listen to our phone conversations, check our emails, phone logs and messages and even open our mail without use knowing. In addition, many places we go we are being recorded. All in the name of safety and security. Well in the name of safety and security, what do you think? Could I slip one of these in my boyfriends car or sew it into his coat or wallet so that I can keep track of him. He could be cheating and cause me to get a disease that might kill me. His cheating could put me in danger. So for safety reasons can I track him every minuet of the day.
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