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Cat returned home after traveling 200 miles

She was found in Pueblo and taken to Pueblo Animal Services, where officials learned who she was and who her family is when they scanned her for a microchip.

Source: KOB TV (online), February 18, 2008

Hospitals tagging babies with electronic chips

"Standard protocol in the hospitals using the VeriChip system is that the baby receives an RFID anklet at birth and the mother receives a matching wristband," VeriChip spokeswoman Allison Tomek told WND. "The mothers are not asked."

Source: WorldNetDaily, January 15, 2008

Utah chip may track pets, kids

A Sandy [Utah] company, S5 Wireless, is looking to bring reality closer to the movies, with small, cheap chips that can be powered by a single battery for up to two years and tracked indoors and outside, over long distances.

Source: Deseret Morning News, December 14, 2007

Microchip maker 'hid ties to cancer'

The safety of implantable tracking chips in human beings is suddenly in focus with the revelation the devices could cause cancer, and that studies showing links to the disease were kept under wraps.

Source: WorldNetDaily, September 9, 2007

Alzheimer's Patients Lining Up for Microchip

In response to such concerns, a Florida-based company has developed an FDA-approved microchip that can be implanted in an Alzheimer's patient's arm, allowing critical medical details to be accessed instantly.

Source: ABC News (online), August 28, 2007

e-Passports get hacked in new security threat

Computer security expert Lukas Grunwald cloned and manipulated the content of a RFID passport, then used the hacked e-Passport to crash the machine needed to read it.

Source: CNN Money (online), August 3, 2007

Microchips mulled for HIV carriers in Indonesia's Papua

Lawmakers in Indonesia's Papua are mulling the selective use of chip implants in HIV carriers to monitor their behaviour in a bid to keep them from infecting others, a doctor said Tuesday.

Source: Breitbart, July 24, 2007

Computer Chip Implanted in a British Researcher

A silicon chip has been successfully implanted into the arm of a UK scientist. The experiment, believed to be the first of its kind, means a computer can keep track of the device and its carrier.

There are positive sides and negative sides - positive in helping people around big building, negative are the big big brother issues - machines or computers controlling humans," he said. He says that if their use became widespread we would never enjoy any privacy and could be followed and identified wherever we went.

Source: BBC News

Can cyborg moths bring down terrorists?

At some point in the not too distant future, a moth will take flight in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected terrorist training camp.

But this will be no ordinary moth.

Inside it will be a computer chip that was implanted when the creature was still a pupa, in the cocoon, meaning that the moth’s entire nervous system can be controlled remotely.

Source: Times Online, May24, 2007

As RFID tracking booms, privacy issues loom

As a business, you want to keep track of your inventory. But as an individual, you don't want anyone keeping track of you.

These two home truths explain why the long-promised RFID revolution is finally starting to gather steam -- and why it could be quickly derailed by a growing suspicion of how both governments and terrorists could misuse the technology.

Source: CNN Money, May 11, 2007

DHS evaluating chipped license proposal

The Department of Homeland Security is proceeding to evaluate Washington state's proposal for a driver's license "enhanced" with a radio frequency identification, or RFID, chip that would encode personal information.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 19, 2007

Driver's licenses to feature radio chips

The state of Washington announced a pilot project to introduce a driver's license "enhanced" with a radio frequency identification, or RFID, chip that would encode personal information and possibly serve as a passport-alternative if approved by the Department of Homeland Security.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 6, 2007

Engineer: GPS shoes make people findable

The sneakers work when the wearer presses a button on the shoe to activate the GPS. A wireless alert detailing the location is sent to a 24-hour monitoring service that costs an additional $19.95 a month.

Source: USA Today (online), February 9, 2007

New biometric passports can be cloned using £100 equipment sold over internet

Passports which have rocketed in value to make them more secure can be easily cloned using a microchip reader bought over the internet for less than £100.

Source: This is London, November 17, 2006

Britons 'could be microchipped like dogs in a decade'

The report, drawn up by a team of respected academics, claims that Britain is a world-leader in the use of surveillance technology and its citizens the most spied-upon in the free world.

It paints a frightening picture of what Britain might be like in ten years time unless steps are taken to regulate the use of CCTV and other spy technologies.

Source: Daily Mail (online), October 30, 2006

Researchers see privacy pitfalls in no-swipe credit cards

The demonstration revealed potential security and privacy holes in a new generation of credit cards--cards whose data is relayed by radio waves without need of a signature or physical swiping through a machine. Tens of millions of the cards have been issued, and equipment for their use is showing up at a growing number of locations, including CVS pharmacies, McDonald's restaurants and many movie theaters.

Source: C/net News, October 23, 2006

Animal ID opponents gaining steam

Another rebellion is brewing across the hinterland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has targeted ranchers, farmers, horse owners, homesteaders, organic gardeners and chicken-owning grandmas for participation in a new National Animal Identification System. The targets are unhappy and are organizing to see that the USDA cannot force participation in this new high-tech government program.

Source: WorldNetDaily, September 16, 2006

500,000 wheelie bins 'have a spy in the lid'

About 500,000 bins across England already carry the electronic devices which are slightly bigger than a one-pence piece and are screwed into a plastic recess in the lip of the wheelie bin. As the bin is lifted up for emptying by council workers, a sensor on the refuse truck scans the chip, which carries a serial number assigned to each property in the street. This then enables the monitoring equipment to identify the bin's address and record the weight of the rubbish that is in the bin.

Source: The Independent (online), August 27, 2006

Researchers: E-passports pose security risk

Radio tags used in everything from building access cards to highway toll cards to passports are surprisingly easy to copy and pose a grave security risk, researchers said this week.

Source: ZDNet, August 5, 2006

Powerful new radio chip unveiled

Hewlett-Packard is introducing new technology to allow the storage of large amounts of information on small chips that can be attached to various objects.

Source: WorldNetDaily, July 20, 2006

Chip-maker wants to implant immigrants

The maker of the controversial radio-frequency tracking chip suggests implanting the device in immigrants and guest workers.

Source: WorldNetDaily, June 1, 2006

Colombian President Would Consider Immigrant Tracking With Microchips

Comments attributed to Colombia's president that microchip implants could be used to track Colombians working temporarily in the U.S. drew attention — and criticism — Thursday.

Source: Fox News (online), May 4, 2006

Group forms to fight animal ID system

A new coalition has formed to fight a new government program meant to identify and track every farm animal in the nation.

Source: WorldNetDaily, April 21, 2006

Watch Out, Kids: With GPS Phones, Big Mother Is Watching

Last week, Sprint Nextel Corp. introduced a new service called Family Locator that lets parents track their kids' whereabouts, using the GPS capabilities in each child's cellphone. For $9.99 a month, you can get a fix on your little ones' locations as long as they are on your Sprint account and carry one of the 30 Sprint or Nextel phones that allow this monitoring.

Source: The Washington Post (online), April 19, 2006

RFID vulnerable to attacks, researchers say

Researchers say they have proven that effective attacks can be launched against radio frequency identification tags.

In tests, standard "Generation 1" RFID tags and readers were unable to function after they were overloaded with data, researchers at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, said in a report published this month.

Source: c/net, April 13, 2006

Sprint users can track children via GPS

Using the Global Positioning System, the service allows parents to track up to four cellphones over the Internet or on their own wireless device. Parents can periodically ask the service to find the child's phone, displaying the location on a road map.

Source: USA Today (online), April 13, 2006

Farmers snubbed over dog microchips

The [New Zealand] Government has snubbed farmers and their lobbyists by refusing to exempt farm dogs from rules that dogs first registered from July must be microchipped.

Source: stuff.co.nz, March 28, 2006

Viruses leap to smart radio tags

Security researchers have infected a Radio Frequency ID tag with a computer virus to show how the technology is vulnerable to malicious hackers.

Source: BBC News (online), March 15, 2006

Implant ID chips called big advance, Big Brother

Doctors implanted a radio ID tag under Sean Darks' skin that allows the executive to enter restricted areas of his Ohio security company.

Jack Schmidig, the police chief in Bergen County, N.J., has a similar chip that doctors can use to find his medical records in an emergency.

And in a somewhat renegade use of the technology, Washington state entrepreneur Amal Graafstra unlocks his home and car and logs on to his computer using a chip he bought online and had implanted near his thumb.

SignOnSanDiego, March 12, 2006

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