posted 05-04-2004 01:41 AM            

http://www.friendsofliberty.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1633

Program to implant RFID tags in homeless
April 3, 2004

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that it was about to begin testing a new technology designed to help more closely monitor and assist the nation's homeless population.

Under the pilot program, which grew out of a series of policy academies held in the last two years, homeless people in participating cities will be implanted with mandatory Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that social workers and police can use track their movements.

The RFID technology was developed by HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in partnership with five states, including California and New York. "This is a rare opportunity to use advanced technology to meet society's dual objectives of better serving our homeless population while making our cities safer," HRSA Administrator Betty James Duke said...

The miniscule RFID tags are no larger than a matchstick and will be implanted subdermally, meaning under the skin. Data from RFID tracking stations mounted on telephone poles will be transmitted to police and social service workers, who will use custom Windows NT software to track movements of the homeless in real time.

In what has become a chronic social problem, people living in shelters and on the streets do not seek adequate medical care and frequently contribute to the rising crime rate in major cities. Supporters of subdermal RFID tracking say the technology will discourage implanted homeless men and women from committing crimes, while making it easier for government workers to provide social services such as delivering food and medicine.

Duke called the RFID tagging pilot program "a high-tech, minimally-intrusive way for the government to lift our citizens away from the twin perils of poverty and crime." Participating cities include New York City, San Francisco, Washington, and Bethlehem, Penn.

Participating states will receive grants of $14 million to $58 million from the federal Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness

(PATH) program, which was created under the McKinney Act to fund support services for the homeless. A second phase of the project, scheduled to be completed in early 2005, will wirelessly transmit live information on the locations of homeless people to handheld computers running the Windows CE operating system.

A spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless, which estimates that there are between 2.3 million and 3.5 million people experiencing homelessness nationwide, said the pilot program could be easily abused.

"We have expressed our tentative support for the idea to HRSA, but only if it includes privacy safeguards," the spokesman said. "So far it's unclear whether those safeguards will actually be in place by roll-out."

Chris Hoofnagle, deputy director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the mandatory RFID program would be vulnerable to a legal challenge. "It is a glaring violation of the Tenth Amendment, which says that powers not awarded to the government are reserved to the people, and homeless people have just as many Tenth Amendment rights as everyone else," said Hoofnagle, who is speaking about homeless privacy at this month's Computers Freedom and Privacy conference in Berkeley, Calif.

While HRSA's program appears to be the first to forcibly implant humans with RFID tags, the technology is becoming more widely adopted as retailers use it to track goods. Wal-Mart Stores said last year that it will require its top 100 suppliers to place RFID tags on shipping crates and pallets by January 2005.

posted 05-04-2004 05:04 AM            

Indeed.

Next it will be to "protect us from terrorists."

posted 05-06-2004 07:34 PM            

"Let's see the FEDS try to force chip me and see what happens."

How can you be certain you don't already have one?

posted 05-06-2004 07:54 PM            

http://www.zapchecker.com/

Paranoid?

posted 05-06-2004 10:37 PM            

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Originally posted by zoobie555:
I've got a good idea for a federally funded program... "Tag a Politician". Let's "tag" all state and federal politicians with RFID chips, and assign RFID readers to all citizens.

"Let's see the FEDS try to force chip me and see what happens."

How can you be certain you don't already have one?

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I'd assumed everybody already knows there could be (or have been) an RFID chip in any injection.
Flu injections for example are given to seniors each winter;
the VA sends me a pass to Pennsacola Naval Air to get a free flu-shot, and I'm sure many other veterans get free injections also.

could any of us or all of us already have an RFID injected?

Choose your link:
Google Results: injectable rfid
1. EE Times -Injectable chip opens door to 'human bar code'

"Injectable chip opens door to 'human bar code ... A Florida-based company has introduced a passive RFID chip that is compatible with human tissue, and the developer ... " www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020104S0044

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The announcement of the chip's availability created a media stir, however — not because of its potential use with pacemakers but because of its science-fiction-like potential application in human identification systems. Because the microchip and its antenna measure just 11.1 x 2.1 mm, Applied Digital Solutions said the assembly can be injected through a syringe and implanted in various locations within the body.

The tube-shaped VeriChip includes a memory that holds 128 characters of information, an electromagnetic coil for transmitting data and a tuning capacitor, all encapsulated within a silicone-and-glass enclosure. The passive RF unit, which operates at 125 kHz, is activated by moving a company-designed scanner within about a foot of the chip. Doing so excites the coil and "wakes up" the chip, enabling it to transmit data.

The chips are said to be similar to those that are already implanted in about a million dogs and cats nationwide to enable pet owners to identify and reclaim animals that have been temporarily lost. Applied Digital Solutions, which has made the pet-tracking chips for several years, says that the human chips differ mainly in the biocompatible coating that's used to keep the body from rejecting the implanted chip. The VeriChip is believed to be the first such chip designed for human identification.

In September, Applied Digital Solutions implanted its first human chip when a New Jersey surgeon, Richard Seelig, injected two of the chips into himself. He placed one chip in his left forearm and the other near the artificial hip in his right leg.

Applied Digital said Seelig, who serves as a medical consultant to the company, has now had the chips implanted in him for three months with no signs of rejection or infection.

Ordinarily, the company said, the chips would be implanted in a doctor's office under local anesthesia.

Applied Digital's executives said the ability to inject the chips opens up a variety of RFID applications in high-security situations, as well other types of human identification systems.

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(Waving arm)"I know, I know...implant a chip with 2way tranceiver capability and let the "voices in the head" program a 'Manchurian candidate' to;
let us conjecture "go off suddenly"
Like at Columbine and many other events.
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/mcveigh.htm

Tim McVeigh claimed he had been implanted.
{QUOTE]Was Timothy McVeigh
an unwitting mind-
controlled patsy?

McVeigh: The Manchurian Candidate

His only quirk," according to Mele, "was that he couldn't deal with people. If someone didn't cooperate with him, he would start yelling at them, become verbally aggressive. He could be set off easily."
[/QUOTE]
Hmmm...like many of the homeless http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/mcveigh.htm
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=81

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McVeigh claims that federal agents implanted him with a microchip, which left him with an unexplained scar on his posterior.

The Gulf War Veteran may not be the only one. Five months after the Oklahoma city bombing a spate of random shootings occurred on the freeways in and around San Francisco. ... when police finally tracked down the culprit they found one Christopher Scalley,... According to Scalley he was acting on the orders of “electronic appliances:” When questioned, he told the police that he had been receiving messages via radio waves and that he heard “voices telepathically from passing vehicles.”

Of course Scalley may just be a little wacko, or at least that’s what your supposed to think.

{England}
An outspoken and effective environmental campaigner, Marina’s narrative really began in the mid 1990’s when she uncovered a scandal involving no less than the Royal House of Windsor. According to Marina, ancient woodlands that were officially protected were being completely clear-felled so that suitable trunks could be used to provide timber for the rebuilding of Windsor Castle, in the wake of the 1992 fire.

As Marina began speaking out on this issue she found herself being targeted...In her head she heard two voices: a man’s and a women’s, who described themselves as the “Windsor gang,” and who would berate, threaten and intimidate her for hours at a time.

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posted 05-07-2004 04:26 PM            

HELLO!!! THIS IS F****'N RIDICULOUS.

posted 05-07-2004 04:30 PM            

You're not with the "terrorists" are you?