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Spychips How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

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ISBN-10: 1595550208

ISBN-13: 9781595550200

Edition: 2005

Authors: Katherine Albrecht, Liz McIntyre

List price: $24.99
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RFID, which stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, is a technology that uses computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items from a distance. And as this mind-blowing book explains, plans and efforts are being made now by global corporations and the U.S government to turn this advanced technology, these spychips, into a way to track our daily activities-and keep us all on Big Brother's short leash. Compiling massive amounts of research with firsthand knowledge, "Spychips explains RFID technology and reveals the history and future of the master planners' strategies to imbed these trackers on everything-from postage stamps to shoes to people themselves-and spy on Americans…    
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 10/2/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Katherine Albrecht is the founder and director of CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering). Albrecht has emerged as one of the leading voices for privacy in today's fast changing, high-tech world and has spoken on RFID all over the world, providing testimony to state, federal, and international lawmakers.

Liz McIntyre is CASPIAN's communications director. She is the master strategist for many of the organization's most successful campaigns, but is perhaps best known as the MoneyMom, a family money writer and columnist.

Foreword
Tracking Everyting Everywhere: The RFID threat
Spychips 101: The basics of RFID
The Master Plan: How RFID could change your world forever
The Spy in Your Shoe: Rigging everyday objects to report on their owners
There's a Target on Your Back: Marketers plan to use RFID to manipulate and spy on consumers
The RFID Retail Zoo: The future of shopping
Bringing It Home: How RFID could invade your private spaces
Talking Trash: The RFID tags you throw away say as much as the ones you keep
Yes, That's Your Medicine Cabinet Talking: How your doctor, pharmacy, and hospital plan to use RFID
This Is a Stickup: RFID crimes, should-be crimes, and just plain snooping
Downshifting into Surveillance Mode: Tracking people through their travels
The Chips That Won't Die: Technical fixes to the RFID problem
Adapt or Die: How RFID backers hope to get you on board
Are You Next? Numbering, tracking, and controlling humans with RFID
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Government use of RFID
The Nightmare Scenario: What if Hitler had RFID?
Pull the Plug! How you can help win the RFID war
Epilogue
Endnotes
Index