Former Bush official to get RFID tag

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Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged.

Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that specializes in subcutaneous RFID tags for humans and pets.

To help promote the concepts behind the technology, Thompson himself will get an RFID tag implanted under his skin.

Human RFID tags have emerged as one of the more controversial technologies in years. Civil libertarians theorize that the chips will allow governments or corporations to track people's movement and behavior. Some Christians have said the chips are so evil they fulfill a biblical prophesy about satanic influences.

Advocates, on the other hand, say the chips will contain personal information that will help medical professionals and others provide emergency treatment. The chip provides a form of identification that's tough to lose. By clicking the number found on the chip into a password-restricted database, paramedics can get an accident victim's medical history in the field. (One of VeriChip's scientists came up with the idea of using the company's pet RFID tags on people after watching rescue workers struggle to find the missing after the Sept. 11 tragedy.)

Prisons and jails are also experimenting with RFID bracelets and continual tracking to reduce inmate violence.

"We are all well aware of the need to enhance Information Technology in healthcare," Thompson said in a prepared statement. "It is my belief that VeriChip is an important and secure means of accessing medical records and other information. I look forward to working with the company as it continues its growth."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5793685.html
 
No one is tagging me. Ever. Period.
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Too late.

IIRC, the "real ID" bill which creates a national standard for state drivers licenses passed earlier this year. It contains provisions for the inclusion of things like RFIDs on your state DL.
 
Put your rfid tagged DL in an eel-skin wallet. It will kill it. Just don't put your credit cards in there, nor in the same pocket.

Pops
 
Veri-Chip was originally designed for use by vets (the doctor kind, not soldiers). The market just was moving in their direction.

911 created an interest in information control but the company stilly had troubles right up until one Norman Maneta infused the company with capital. Shortly thereafter the TSA started snooping around and predictably interest in the company peaked.

Shift to today, the hottest technology development frontier in the US today is RFID. Key driving forces includes DoD and WalMart. RFID will shortly show up in just about everything sold. That is a done deal. All that remains in applications development.

Next frontier is human mounted RFID which will no doubt be championed by former high level government officials who will no doubt financially benefit from their influence. I will predict the biggest supporter of human mounted RFID will be banks.

<Note to self. Start work designing a portable Tesla coil>
 
Too late.

IIRC, the "real ID" bill which creates a national standard for state drivers licenses passed earlier this year. It contains provisions for the inclusion of things like RFIDs on your state DL.
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That isn't tagging me, implanted on my person. That will never happen.
 
Eghad You wont need to get one.........

your possesions may already have em......

http://www.nocards.org/AutoID/overview.shtml

wonder when firearms may get em?
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It is already closer than you think. There are special interest groups that are advocating that all manufactured arms have a test fired round on file that coresponds to the serial number on the weapon.

The biometric locator tags are now 1/10 the size of a grain of rice.
 
(One of VeriChip's scientists came up with the idea of using the company's pet RFID tags on people after watching rescue workers struggle to find the missing after the Sept. 11 tragedy.)
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This statement is either in genuine error - or a blatant lie. One or the other. There was open media discussion of this topic long before 9/11 - and I have visited the corporate websites where such things were previously mentioned.

It is funny how short many memories are, and how brazen these people are in exploiting it.
 
No one is tagging me. Ever. Period.
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Same here.


And on that subject, it would please me if Tommy Thompson's chip somehow migrated to his brain and caused a massive stroke that left him a total vegetable for the next forty years. That would serve right any person who attempts to help this kind of atrocity be perpetrated on a free people.


-blackmind
 
It is already closer than you think. There are special interest groups that are advocating that all manufactured arms have a test fired round on file that coresponds to the serial number on the weapon.
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When I bought my NIB Ruger P345 about three months ago there was a .45 caliber case in the box with it. According to the information on it, it was included in the case for Law Enforcement to take posession of the fired round in areas where it is required by law, so that ejected brass could be traced to my handgun. If anyone is interested, I could photocopy the information on it, and post it here for your edification.
 
I think it would be funny if the manufacturers deliberately put fired rounds into the box, but made sure they were from any gun BUT the one in the box! :p

At what point would a law enforcement agency take possession of that round? Before you, the customer, ever had access to the box? Because unless that were the case, you could slip in a replacement casing into the box, maybe one you found at the range. Whoops! :p

-blackmind
 
Regarding the general direction of this discussion, the following comes to mind.

Essentially, government, and those wonderful bureaucrats have opted to treat the citizenry like naughty, poorly behaved children, the type who need constant "supervision".

Think that they will display puzzlement and or lack of understanding when the citizenry, having been so treated, start to behave in exactly such a manner, if not something a whole hell of a lot worse?
 
'Health Chips' Could Help Patients in US

Jul. 31--President Bush's former health secretary Tommy Thompson is putting the final touches to a plan that could result in US citizens having a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip inserted under their skin, The Business has learned.

The RFID capsules would be linked to a computerised database being created by the US Department of Health to store and manage the nation's health records. It could be the precursor to a similar scheme in the UK.

The president's budget for 2006 continues to support the use of health information technology by increasing funding to $125m (�70m, E103m) for pilot schemes.

Thompson, now a director of Applied Digital Solutions, the company that makes the chips, intends to publish the proposal in the next 50 days, by which time he plans to have had a VeriChip inserted in his arm. Thompson believes the capsules could help save thousands of lives every year.

VeriChip spokesman John Procter says around 98,000 people die needlessly in the US every year after being given inappropriate treatment because their medical history was not available.

"There is a vast range of people who could benefit from having an RFID chip inserted under their skin as insurance against an accident. People with adverse reactions to certain medicines such as penicillin, people with pacemakers, people with allergies, people with weak hearts, would be made safer by a process that costs around $200 per person. In fact, virtually everyone could benefit from having a chip inserted."

The company intends to lobby the UK health authorities to inject the chips into British patients.

According to Procter, the chips can also be used for financial transactions. In Europe, the Baja Beach Club chain has introduced chipping in the Netherlands and Spain.

The VeriChip is inserted at the club and means club-goers will no longer have to wait in line to pay to get in and will be able to use the chip to pay their bar bill.

Civil liberties groups such as Caspian in the US fear that the need for increased security in the wake of terrorist attacks could act as a catalyst for a more widespread use of VeriChips.

http://www.rednova.com/news/health/196561/health_chips_could_help_patients_in_us/
 
"VeriChip spokesman John Procter says around 98,000 people die needlessly in the US every year after being given inappropriate treatment because their medical history was not available."

While the above is ongoing, what else about those who die or are seriously injured via other forms of "medical misadventure" each year, the AMA continues to lobby for "Gun Control, this based on the alleged epidemic of gun violence
 
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