Liz McIntyre

Biography:

Liz McIntyre is a consumer privacy expert and author of the soon-to-be-released book Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID. In this book, McIntyre and co-author Katherine Albrecht expose how organizations like Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Wal-Mart, and even the U.S. Postal Service plan to use tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track everyday objects and even people, keeping tabs on everything you own and everywhere you go.

McIntyre regularly researches and writes about the financial, privacy, and civil liberties impacts that technologies like RFID will have on consumers. She serves as the Communications Director for CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an organization that advocates free-market, consumer-based solutions to the problem of retail privacy invasion. In this role, she has been the master strategist for many of the organization's most successful media campaigns.

McIntyre is also known for her lively, accessible treatment of consumer issues as the MoneyMom, a syndicated family money writer and columnist. McIntyre brings meticulous research skills and a keen investigative eye to her reporting on corporate policy-making and bureaucratic misdeeds.

Past Shows:

	Mad Moments
	Friday May 19, 2006

During the final two hours of the show, George Noory, who was broadcasting live from WMAL-AM in Washington D.C., hosted Open Lines and offered a 'mad moment' line for people who wanted to share occasions in their lives when they just lost it. One caller recalled the enormous anger he felt after being shot in the back of the head with a pellet gun. Steve, an ordained minister from eastern Canada, remembered the time he raged against one of his troublesome parishioners, causing him to turn tail and run away.Tim, a steel mill worker from Cleveland, Ohio, said he snapped one day at work and yelled at his irritable shift supervisor. Tim was warned that if he ever did that again, he would be asked to leave. Richard in Indiana, who suffered from Polio as a child, said bullies would unlock the brace he wore and cause him to fall down. When he could take no more of their shenanigans, Richard let two of the bullies have it by striking them with his crutches. According to Richard, he was ... More
Host: George Noory

	Spy Chips
	Saturday October 1, 2005

Consumer privacy experts Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre of CASPIAN, a group dedicated to fighting supermarket 'loyalty' cards, shared an update on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products. ... More
Host: Ian Punnett