Comments on: Big Brother: already here http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:25:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364#comment-5344 Reader's Write Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:52:28 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364#comment-5344 Ah... remember the good old days when if you worried that the government had planted a tracking chip into your body you were just a paranoid nutjob? Finally, EVERYONE will be able to go about life in constant suspicion that your whereabouts are being tracked! Ah… remember the good old days when if you worried that the government had planted a tracking chip into your body you were just a paranoid nutjob? Finally, EVERYONE will be able to go about life in constant suspicion that your whereabouts are being tracked!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364#comment-5331 Reader's Write Wed, 08 Sep 2004 03:07:54 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364#comment-5331 In the Occupied Territories, Israel keeps a tight grip on the movements of the non-Jewish population. Checkpoints are set up at strategic locations, and as people pass through these multiple checkpoints, this information gets entered into a database, adding to every person's travel profile. Also, transmitters are planted on cars of suspected militants, and this not only traces their location, but also acts as a homing signal for missiles. Although effective in monitoring the population, these measures have limitations that a surgically implanted RFID tag would not. People can always switch cars or bypass checkpoints, but a RFID tag implanted inside one's skull is going to be very difficult - and risky - to remove. An RFID-like device has the potential not only to be used for tracking a person, but also for targeted elimination. The many invasive privacy-busting technology and techniques developed by countries at war to pacify a hostile occupied population are likely to be eventually transferred to a peaceful domestic environment - "for our own protection". In the Occupied Territories, Israel keeps a tight grip on the movements of the non-Jewish population. Checkpoints are set up at strategic locations, and as people pass through these multiple checkpoints, this information gets entered into a database, adding to every person’s travel profile. Also, transmitters are planted on cars of suspected militants, and this not only traces their location, but also acts as a homing signal for missiles.

Although effective in monitoring the population, these measures have limitations that a surgically implanted RFID tag would not. People can always switch cars or bypass checkpoints, but a RFID tag implanted inside one’s skull is going to be very difficult - and risky - to remove. An RFID-like device has the potential not only to be used for tracking a person, but also for targeted elimination.

The many invasive privacy-busting technology and techniques developed by countries at war to pacify a hostile occupied population are likely to be eventually transferred to a peaceful domestic environment - “for our own protection”.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364#comment-5316 Reader's Write Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:45:55 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/2364#comment-5316 Why don't they just come out and say it -- they want to create a race of humanoids. :) This is just one step into making us cyber-beings. The public would not appreciate having their lives constantly monitored -- we would become self-conscious about everything we do for the rest of our lives, and that can easily cause an increase in stress levels that nobody needs. One thing that people treasure above all in their privacy, and once that's taken away from us...what's left? Big Brother? Oh, brother... Why don’t they just come out and say it — they want to create a race of humanoids. :) This is just one step into making us cyber-beings.

The public would not appreciate having their lives constantly monitored — we would become self-conscious about everything we do for the rest of our lives, and that can easily cause an increase in stress levels that nobody needs. One thing that people treasure above all in their privacy, and once that’s taken away from us…what’s left?

Big Brother? Oh, brother…

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