Have You Been Chipped Already And If Not- When?

Okay, this is starting to remind me of 'Demolition Man'. That creeps me out.

 

Have I ? No.

Will I ?
Over my dead body, after they pry the red hot smoking gun from my cold dead hands and wade through the pile of dead bodies. Same goes for any of my family.

 

Got a smart phone?
Bank card?
Credit card?
Loyalty card?
On-Star enabled?

 

Anyone notice how they are made so one cannot remove the battery ?

The next three are point-of-use and can also track whet you have bought.
On-Star is another beast altogether, no freaking way will I ever own a vehicle with that or anything similar installed. If you so much as miss a payment they can (and will) shut your car off until you pay up.

 

If they start this it will be with registered sex offenders then convicted violent felons. After they prove it is "safe" they will go after the population for medical reasons.

 

What about all the lists that, even we monkeys are bound to be on, for people that do not "tow" the .gov line? Oh, and have you talked to anyone who has gone to the sandbox lately?

 

Yeah i HAD an rfid chipped credit card. Called & raised hell about it. They sent me a regular card to replace it.

 

Bah - it's far worse than most think.

Andrew Weissmann: FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power.

Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a “top priority” this year.

Last week, during a talk for the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C., FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann discussed some of the pressing surveillance and national security issues facing the bureau. He gave a few updates on the FBI’s efforts to address what it calls the “going dark” problem—how the rise in popularity of email and social networks has stifled its ability to monitor communications as they are being transmitted. It’s no secret that under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the feds can easily obtain archive copies of emails. When it comes to spying on emails or Gchat in real time, however, it’s a different story.

That’s because a 1994 surveillance law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act only allows the government to force Internet providers and phone companies to install surveillance equipment within their networks. But it doesn’t cover email, cloud services, or online chat providers like Skype. Weissmann said that the FBI wants the power to mandate real-time surveillance of everything from Dropbox and online games (“the chat feature in Scrabble”) to Gmail and Google Voice. “Those communications are being used for criminal conversations,” he said.

While it is true that CALEA can only be used to compel Internet and phone providers to build in surveillance capabilities into their networks, the feds do have some existing powers to request surveillance of other services. Authorities can use a “Title III” order under the “Wiretap Act” to ask email and online chat providers furnish the government with “technical assistance necessary to accomplish the interception.” However, the FBI claims this is not sufficient because mandating that providers help with “technical assistance” is not the same thing as forcing them to “effectuate” a wiretap. In 2011, then-FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni—Weissmann’s predecessor—stated that Title III orders did not provide the bureau with an "effective lever" to "encourage providers" to set up live surveillance quickly and efficiently. In other words, the FBI believes it doesn’t have enough power under current legislation to strong-arm companies into providing real-time wiretaps of communications.

Because Gmail is sent between a user’s computer and Google’s servers using SSL encryption, for instance, the FBI can’t intercept it as it is flowing across networks and relies on the company to provide it with access. Google spokesman Chris Gaither hinted that it is already possible for the company to set up live surveillance under some circumstances. “CALEA doesn't apply to Gmail but an order under the Wiretap Act may,” Gaither told me in an email. “At some point we may expand our transparency report to cover this topic in more depth, but until then I'm not able to provide additional information.”

Either way, the FBI is not happy with the current arrangement and is on a crusade for more surveillance authority. According to Weissmann, the bureau is working with “members of intelligence community” to craft a proposal for new Internet spy powers as “a top priority this year.” Citing security concerns, he declined to reveal any specifics. “It's a very hard thing to talk about publicly,” he said, though acknowledged that “it's something that there should be a public debate about.”

 

Oh they're working it out all right...

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/05n0510/05n-0510-EC6-Attach-1.pdf

Based on the SCRM data system, we have developed inexpensive methods for facilitated
monitoring of the use of medications by patients for their physicians. Combined with
encoding of pills to associate them with a specific prescription, monitoring provides a
powerful additional check limiting diversion, detecting patterns of early addiction or
covert experimentation with the patient’s medicines by others, such as children.
The SCRM system addresses the following problems:
1. Product authentication: Secure Coding and a novel Pill Print (digital visual
capture process) at the point of manufacture achieve the most rapid and powerful
counterfeit detection system for the bartered unit, the individual pill. This
capability is synergistic to RFID authentication of a container or package. Note
that authentication of the container alone may create a false sense of security
regarding the integrity of pills within. The SCRM systems are well designed to
frustrate even sophisticated counterfeiters who wish to erase, paint over, duplicate
or clone a chemical additive, or inactivate a traditional RFID device
2. Country of origin determination: Through relational data basing, the securely
encoded serial number identifies production site PharmoRx White Paper - Augmenting RFID Track and Trace Page: 3
3. Lot or batch tracking to patient, MD: Because our systems include postprescription traceability, listing of every patient and his physician who received a
particular lot of medication is instantly available
4. Deterrence of illicit resale: Patients are told that their medicines contain markers
which implicate them if found on the street or within an overdosed patient; loss of
further medication or criminal prosecution are powerful deterrents to diversion
5. MD prescription abuse: MDs know that the tracking serial number, through
registration to a prescription number at the pharmacy, identifies them, their
patients and the size of their prescriptions
6. Fraud and theft of pills : When pills are reported stolen, registration data lead to
the exact serial number on pills; these pills are not lost in the universe of
medication but become forensic evidence of a fraudulent claim. Recognizable as
stolen property, the diverted pills lose value
7. Abuse of medication: Facilitated monitoring detects early overuse of pills or
removal of pills from a compliant patient’s container (e.g., by a child); a poison
pill strategy in our biometric dispensers destroys pills after inappropriate attempts
to open; two of our patent pending formulations of opioids inactivate the agonist
if the pill matrix is breached
8. Non-adherence to MD prescription: The failure to take prescribed medications
(the converse of abuse) leads to worsening illness, hospitalization, morbidity and
greatly increased health costs; monitoring and controlled dispensing immediately
identify omitted doses, a critical aid to chronic disease management
9. Wasteful prescribing, inefficient use of medications: Through coding, registration
and monitoring, every pill enters an inventory of medications dispensed until
consumed by the patient- prescribing of excessive medication, costly to the
health care system and a path to experimentation and abuse, is easily detected
10. Liability reduction for manufacturer, distributor, prescriber: Powerful, cost
effective systems curtail diversion and theft while providing an appropriate,
flexible dose for the intended patient
11.Cost effectiveness: SCRM implementation utilizing optical inscription on tablets
added less than 2 cents to the cost of a $3-4 specialized opioid; SCRM-PAK
secure repackaging of abusable drugs is installed for less than 0.5 cents/pill

 

more...

New 'smart' pill tells patients when drugs dose due - Telegraph

Digital pills make their way to market : Nature News Blog

 

Um...
It might be cheaper to just install some railings on your bed to stop you from rolling off in your sleep.

 

There is a word for that. It's called "NO". Commonly used in phrases such as "NO f#@king way"," I said NO and I meant it", and usually followed by the phrase, "try it, and I will sue you" and "Give me back my money," or "You will be hearing from my Lawyer".

 

On Star does not need to be "enabled", it can be turned on remotely at any time. You can be traced without consent for marketing promotions, track maintenance problems, listen to your private conversations or evaluate your driving habits for insurance purposes.

On Star and other devices can also shut down your car if you miss a payment.

Not that any of this would ever be abused.