chip introduction in ohio - this was news a couple of days ago on WPIX - pittsburgh,pa

Security Company Puts Chips In Workers' Arms

POSTED: 2:39 pm EST February 13, 2006

CINCINNATI -- A company that sells surveillance
equipment has begun implanting tiny identifying
devices in employees to allow them access to its
secure vaults.

The program is voluntary and is believed to be the
first of its kind in the United States,
CityWatcher.com Chief Executive Sean Darks said
Monday.

Darks said three of the 3-year-old company's seven
employees, including himself, have been implanted with
radio frequency identification chips -- known as RFIDs
-- about the size of a grain of rice.

"I have one," Darks said of the implants, first
reported by the Financial Times. "I'm not going to ask
somebody to do something I wouldn't do myself. None of
my employees are forced to get the chip to keep their
job."

CityWatcher.com has contracts with six cities to
provide cameras and Internet monitoring of high-crime
areas, Darks said. The company instituted the RFID
program to restrict access to vaults where data and
images are kept for police departments, he said.

"We've had it for a few months. We're testing it to
see the effectiveness," Darks said.

The technology predates World War II, but has appeared
in numerous modern adaptations, such as tracking pets
and vehicles. The Mexico attorney general's office
implanted RFIDs in some employees in 2004 to restrict
access to secure areas.

The implants don't enable CityWatcher.com to track
employees' movements, Darks said.

"It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever,"
Darks said. "It's the same thing as a keycard."

According to The Financial Times, VeriChip, the
American company that made the devices, said the
implants were designed primarily for medical purposes.
The company also claims to have the only chips that
have been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration, the paper reported.
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I heard about that on the news. I think there was another company
recently that was going to try and require it too. If they're smart,
the employees would nip that in the bud quick!

"It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever,"
Darks said."
-There's a big problem with that, if they are actually passive, they
still reflect other fields.

If any of you have gotten clothes with chips imbedded in them, you
might notice it. I was going to mention this recently anyhow. I
bought some Fruit of the Loom underwear (I think it was that brand).

Now I've read about others having trouble with this before, but 1st
hand now. No label, so you can't cut it off, but they were in there.
Washing doesn't disable, and I don't have a microwave to try frying
them in, as I've heard works, although not entirely safe to do.

I ended up throwing all from that package out, because I was so
bothered by whatever they were emitting or picking up all the time,
just holding, not even wearing. I've heard this happen with T-shirts
people have worn.

I tried doing a search to see what brands clothing they are in, more
expensive usually, but I must not be putting the right words in the
search engine to find a list.

I did recently read that they can be disabled with a cell phone, but
you need the know how, to find the right number code for it to work.
Don't have a cell phone anyway.

Heard you try it in a ???brain lock?? the sterilizing cans some Drs.
have in their offices, or hospital.

There was a big talk about rfids on the radio a couple days ago.  
Interviewed a kid and his girlfriend that got implants for fun. Now
that he knows more about them, may have it removed, but it is
intentionally going to be marketed to make them "cool" to have. I
guess some in the jet set crowd do them already too. The military
already gets their behinds chipped for tracking, but will be getting
more, and required by 2013 I think was the year they projected, and
hope to have the majority of the populous done too. :s

~ Snoshoe


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----- Original Message -----
From: "snoshoe_2" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 07:10
Subject: [eSens] Re: chip introduction in ohio - this was news a couple of
days ago on WPIX - pittsburgh,pa

Hi, Snoshoe,

Sorry I am so behind in my mail! Is this old news or what? lol I just was going to say that I cannot fathom why people are not roaring in revolt over these chips! Can't they see that down the road they will be slaves if they have themselves implanted with these? I mean, think about it! How could you ever hide from a despotic regime or from an employer who wished to take control of your every moment..... The majority of people just seem not to think very far into the future. And this (the slavery issue) is something that could touch everyone, not just the ES.

Another 2 cents, ;)
Diane

snoshoe_2 <[hidden email]> wrote:
I heard about that on the news. I think there was another company
recently that was going to try and require it too. If they're smart,
the employees would nip that in the bud quick!

"It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever,"
Darks said."
-There's a big problem with that, if they are actually passive, they
still reflect other fields.

If any of you have gotten clothes with chips imbedded in them, you
might notice it. I was going to mention this recently anyhow. I
bought some Fruit of the Loom underwear (I think it was that brand).

Now I've read about others having trouble with this before, but 1st
hand now. No label, so you can't cut it off, but they were in there.
Washing doesn't disable, and I don't have a microwave to try frying
them in, as I've heard works, although not entirely safe to do.

I ended up throwing all from that package out, because I was so
bothered by whatever they were emitting or picking up all the time,
just holding, not even wearing. I've heard this happen with T-shirts
people have worn.

I tried doing a search to see what brands clothing they are in, more
expensive usually, but I must not be putting the right words in the
search engine to find a list.

I did recently read that they can be disabled with a cell phone, but
you need the know how, to find the right number code for it to work.
Don't have a cell phone anyway.

Heard you try it in a ???brain lock?? the sterilizing cans some Drs.
have in their offices, or hospital.

There was a big talk about rfids on the radio a couple days ago.
Interviewed a kid and his girlfriend that got implants for fun. Now
that he knows more about them, may have it removed, but it is
intentionally going to be marketed to make them "cool" to have. I
guess some in the jet set crowd do them already too. The military
already gets their behinds chipped for tracking, but will be getting
more, and required by 2013 I think was the year they projected, and
hope to have the majority of the populous done too. :s

~ Snoshoe


--- In [hidden email], Irene Dickerson <iedbunnie@...> wrote:




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