RFID & Privacy Abuse

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Mark of the Beast win real Applications & Future Store win real Imbedded Chips & Tracking win real Mark of the Beast win real

Date:	06-14-04
Host:	George Noory
Guests:	Katherine Albrecht, Jim Berkland

Katherine Albrecht (spychips.com(1)), the founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (nocards.org(2)), shared her research on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products. The small tags which emit identifying signals, are being pitched by major retailers to replace bar codes, and the marketing applications are "quite chilling," she commented.
Albrecht expressed concern that the tags would be read by hidden scanners without consumers' awareness and that marketers would be compiling information about people that they don't necessarily want to share. While the industry is claiming that RFID tags can be turned off after a consumer purchases an item, Albrecht discovered at her trip to the Future Store(3) in Germany, they actually weren't disabling the chips even though they claimed they were.
The government is also involved with the technology, she warned. Cash itself may eventually have RFID chips installed in it, creating a larger tracking and accountability database that Albrecht predicted would be a further erosion of privacy. Of even greater worry, she sees a time when people may be coerced into having implants placed into their bodies in order to make purchases, which she correlated with the "Mark of the Beast" from the Book of Revelation.

1. http://www.spychips.com/
2. http://www.nocards.org/
3. http://www.future-store.org/servlet/PB/-s/1umlsa1aqayy5ukq3kbriilo5uyhrxw/menu/1000154/index.html

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Bumper Music

Bumper music from Monday June 14, 2004

1.	Apurimac Cusco	2.	Color My World Chicago	3.	Don't Bring Me Down E.L.O.
4.	Eye In The Sky Alan Parsons Project	5.	From the Beginning Emerson, Lake & Palmer	6.	Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
7.	Hotel California Eagles	8.	I Feel the Earth Move Carole King	9.	Inca Dance Cusco
10.	Leave It Yes	11.	Midnight Express (The Chase) Giorgio Moroder	12.	Midnight Express (The Chase) Giorgio Moroder
13.	Private Eyes Hall & Oates	14.	Somebody's Watching Me Rockwell	15.	Soul to Squeeze Red Hot Chili Peppers
16.	Spooky Atlanta Rhythm Section	17.	Spooky Classics IV	18.	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Manic Street Preachers