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Netherlands to catalogue its population under 'citizen service number' scheme
dmeurope.com | May 24 2004

 Dutch citizens and residents could be issued a national personal identification number by 2006.
NYPD Planning To Install Its Own Surveillance Cameras
NY 1 News | May 3 2004

The NYPD is reportedly planning to install hundreds of cameras around the city that can automatically recognize the faces of suspected criminals or terrorists.
Police will be able to order eye scans under ID card plan
London Independent | April 26 2004

Police will have powers to stop and check people against a national biometric database under plans for a compulsory identity card scheme to be unveiled today.
UK government wants cameras in every residential neighborhood
London Evening Standard | April 15 2004

London already has 400 speed cameras, with more than 6,000 across Britain. Mr Livingstone called this year for more cameras "in every residential neighbourhood" to enforce speed limits.
Chicago Surveillance Cameras to be Fitted With Listening Devices
Chicago Tribune | April 7 2004

Chicago will augment its camera surveillance of high-crime areas with a new listening device that can detect the sound of gunfire and lead to quick dispatch of police to the location, officials said Tuesday.
Big Brother spies on Britain
AFP - 12/17/03

In Britain, Big Brother really is watching you almost everywhere, according to civil liberties campaigners alarmed by the proliferation of spying machines in trains, buses, high streets, sports stadiums and perhaps soon even in clothes.
Millions to get ID cards within 3 years

MILLIONS of people will be issued with identity cards within three years under David Blunkett’s plans for a national scheme announced yesterday. The first compelled to have a card — from 2006 — will be the country’s 4.6 million foreign citizens.
10,000 to test eye scan and fingerprint scheme

The electronic "biometric" eye scans and fingerprints that lie at the heart of the new national identity card scheme are to be tested by 10,000 volunteers in a six month Home Office trial starting in the next few weeks.
Unmanned Aerial Drones Raise Specter of Big Brother

For some privacy advocates, the talk about civilian use of unmanned aircraft has raised a specter of Big Brother in the skies, and a new privacy debate is brewing.
Shouting Telescreens Coming to Britain

Tests in Nottingham have persuaded nine local schools to start the school year by installing the "talking eye" system, officially called public address voice activation. Security cameras are linked to loudspeakers and staff in a central control room who issue messages such as: "The police are coming."
Big Brother's next weapon: Tracking your letters with microchip stamps

Sending an anonymous love letter or an angry note to your congressman? The U.S. Postal Service will soon know who you are.
Cellphone 'radar' tracks traffic flow

Signals from cellphone masts can be used to track aircraft, monitor traffic congestion and spot speeding motorists without tipping them off that they are being watched.
Who's watching you? Today, it's hard to escape those eyes in the sky

Improving technology and security concerns are nudging society into a state of varied and constant surveillance, meaning people are being watched more than they may realize. Cameras under black plastic domes survey Publix frozen foods aisles, Wuesthoff hospital lobbies, the marked-down jeans at Dillard's, the PlayStation 2 games at Blockbuster, highways, airports, casinos and offices. It's a black-dome world we're living in. Depending on whom you ask, the domes and the vigiliance they represent are a boon to safety, invisible background props or a source of the willies.
Officials in Hot Springs Are Issuing ID Cards For Kids

Officials in Hot Springs kicked off a new statewide service, issuing I.D cards to children as young as five years old. The state legislature passed a law in the spring that allows parents to get their child a card that looks just like a driver's license.  The child's vital information will be stored in a statewide database.
Terror checks for all air passengers

Pacific Rim countries will share a database of all passengers flying between their airports. The details of every passenger will be forwarded to the destination country and a "red flag" will flash whenever a person has a criminal history or any suspected link to terrorism.
Secret go-ahead for ID card database

The cabinet has secretly given the go-ahead to the chancellor, Gordon Brown, to set up Britain's first national population computer database that is the foundation stone for a compulsory identity card scheme.
Organizers say 'Matrix' Big Brother database would be tied in with CIA

The project is billed as a tool for state and local police, but organizers are considering giving access to the Central Intelligence Agency, said Phil Ramer, special agent in charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's intelligence office.
Scots teenagers to be issued with ID cards

EVERY secondary school pupil in Scotland is to be issued with an ID card bearing his or her name, age and address, under a controversial government scheme branded last night as an assault on privacy.
U.S. schools resort to security cameras

A digital camera hangs over every classroom here, silently recording students' and teachers' every move. The surveillance system is at the leading edge of a trend to equip U.S. public schools with the same cameras that Wal-Mart stores use to catch thieves.
Web Cameras Monitor Class Activity

A school district in Biloxi, Miss. is the first to install Web cameras in the classroom. The video is fed live to the Internet where the principal can monitor the activities of the students and teachers with the click of a mouse.
U.S. Develops Urban Surveillance System

The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city. Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans. The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face.
The Pentagon's Plan for Tracking Everything That Moves

The cameras are already in place. The computer code is being developed at a dozen or more major companies and universities. And the trial runs have already been planned.
The Matrix: U.S. Backs Fla. Counterterrorism Database

The system, which is called Matrix or Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, reportedly allows investigators to find patterns and links among people and events faster than ever before. It combines, police records with commercially available collections of personal information about most American adults, according to the Post.
US may adopt Fla. antiterror database

Police in Florida are creating a new counterterrorism database designed to give law enforcement agencies around the country a powerful new tool to analyze billions of records about both criminals and ordinary Americans.
Police Database Network Targets People Who Apply For Gun Permits

Some see it as the sort of tool that just might give police a break the next time someone abducts a child. Others see it as an assault on personal privacy, a Big Brother network operating outside the bounds of state regulation.
U.S. Navy May Use Blimps as Anti-Terror Tool

The blimps wouldn't be like those that hover over football stadiums and concerts. These would be equipped with cutting-edge sensors and high-resolution cameras that could scour the landscape or oceans.
Drone research looks at traffic applications

Pilotless planes, which the U.S. military has used to snoop out Iraqi tanks and assassinate an al-Qaida terrorist, will be tested in Ohio to see whether they can battle a more down-to-earth hazard: traffic jams.
Homeland Security Studies Drone Patrols

The Homeland Security Department is considering the use of unmanned aircraft to track drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and terrorists along the porous U.S. border with Mexico, a top official told a Senate panel Tuesday.
FBI Uses Plane To Watch For Signs Of Terrorist Connections

An airplane seen flying above this college town every day for more than a week is being used by the FBI as part of anti-terrorism surveillance, agency officials said.
FBI spy planes patrol U.S.

The FBI has a fleet of aircraft, some equipped with night surveillance and eavesdropping equipment, flying America's skies to track and collect intelligence from suspected terrorists.
Federal regulators ease restrictions on technology that can see through walls

Technology that can see through walls to help police track criminals and aid firefighters searching for victims received a boost from federal regulators Thursday.
How mobile phones let spies see our every move

Secret radar technology research that will allow the biggest-ever extension of 'Big Brother'-style surveillance in the UK is being funded by the Government.
White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet

The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users.
Public oppose ID card scheme

Most people are opposed to the idea of a national ID card for the UK - according to the government's own consultation exercise.
Cameras peer into school hallways

The shootings four years ago at Columbine High School in Colorado sparked a nationwide push for schools to implement security cameras. Salisbury’s South Rowan High School was no different.
London's Privacy Falling Down

Attention Londoners: Big Bobby is watching. That's the message of posters plastered along London's bus routes earlier this week to assuage riders' crime fears. But the posters are having the opposite effect on privacy advocates, who say the artwork is creepily reminiscent of the all-seeing authority described in George Orwell's 1984.

The posters show a red double-decker bus crossing a bridge as four floating eyes stare down from the sky. The eyes' pupils are the symbol of Transport For London, the city's mass-transit provider.
Clubbers choose chip implants to jump queues
NewScientist.com | May 21 2004

 Clubbers in Spain are choosing to receive a microchip implant instead of carrying a membership card. It is the latest and perhaps the most unlikely of uses for implantable radio frequency ID chips.
Barcelona nightclub chips customers
The Register | 19th May 2004

"The nightclub has now turned Tuesday nights into Implant Night where guests can be chipped in between drinking and dancing," Annanova reports.
Nightclub 'VIPs' Get Chips Implanted
Newsmax | May 14, 2004

Expect trendoids in Manhattan, South Beach and La-La Land to ape the gimmick. Anything to be one of the popular kids.
Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain Launches Microchip Implantation for VIP Members
Violet Jones/Infowars.com | April 7 2004

Baja Beach Club owner Conrad Chase wanted something unique to identify his VIP patrons. Other clubs had special jewelry or key chains, but he was looking for something special.
Microchip 'could do away with pills'

Scientists in the United States have developed a new way of taking medicines which could improve the effectiveness of some treatments including HIV therapy. Writing in the journal Nature Materials they describe a drug-containing microchip which can be implanted in the body.
Tracking Junior With a Microchip

A Mexican company has launched a service to implant microchips in children as an anti-kidnapping device.
Malaysia tests ID chips for embedding in bodies

The Malaysian government has acquired rights to chips that can embed identity tags into cash, passports or even human bodies.
Barcoding humans: The era of implanting people with identity chips is up on us

The painless procedure barely lasted 15 minutes. In his South Florida office, Dr. Harvey Kleiner applied a local anesthetic above the tricep of my right arm, then he inserted a thick needle deep under the skin.
Digital Angel Gets Federal OK for Implantable Microchip

Digital Angel Corp. received approval to market its temperature-sensing implantable microchip for use in pets, livestock, and other animals.
8-year-olds face electronic tagging

In an effort to crack down on an epidemic of youth crime, Scotland is considering a proposal to electronically tag repeat offenders, possibly as young as eight years old, the daily Scotsman reported.
Miami journalist gets 'chipped'

Applied Digital Solutions, maker of implantable identification chips for humans, is ramping up a new media blitz with the "chipping" of a reporter and unveiling yesterday in London of a new temperature-sensing microchip.
The Future of Shopping
Newsweek | June 7-14 issue

 Tiny silicon identity chips being put in everyday objects and even implanted under the skin are changing the way we consume. Will they also invade our privacy?
Carlyle Group Subsidiary Named "MATRICS" is Brimming with NSA and CIA Operatives and pushing a Swastika-Shaped Tracker Chip
Infowars.com | April 7 2004

The Carlyle Group, run by Frank Carlucci, was strategically placed before Sept 11th to maximize profits by controlling almost every sector of the police state's architecture in America.
Debunkers Attempt To Discredit Prison Planet/Infowars Over Exploding $20 Bills Story
Steve Watson | 18th March 2004

The RFID industry have no interest in dis-proving our claims, and are solely concerned with attacking us in order to make us seem unreliable or untrustworthy. This is a common tactic that we encounter over and over whenever we expose something of a great magnitude.
RFID industry tries to debunk "exploding $20 bill" myth
Declan McCullagh | 18th March 2004

Let's back up a little here. We never claimed RFIDs were in EVERY $20 bill. Nor did we claim that $20 bills would explode in EVERY microwave. All we did was carry a story from a couple who said their bills did explode. What we can say for sure is that the EU want RFID in all Euros by 2005 and the same system is being developed for US money.
High-tech care for elderly on display:Promoters say devices could aid self-sufficiency
Houston Chronicle | 17th March 2004

Someday soon, Grandma's toothbrush may be equipped with a sensor to see if she's brushing. Grandpa's favorite chair may be wired to transmit his blood pressure reading to his doctor.
RFID chips watch Grandma brush teeth
NewScientist.com | 17 March 04

Tiny computer chips that emit unique radio-frequency IDs could be slapped on to toothbrushes, chairs and even toilet seats to monitor elderly people in their own homes.
RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them
Adapted from a letter sent to Henry Makow - 02/29/04

 Do you know what exploded on American money?? The right eye of Andrew Jackson on the new twenty, every bill was uniform in it's burning...
RFID Tags Already in Euro Notes
Steve Watson / Propagandamatrix - 03/01/04

They told us they were going to do it by 2005 and now they have. Euro bank notes have RFID radio tags in them.
Printable Radio Tags Could Be Used to Track What You Read

It could provide a series of snapshots of customer behavior over time and across space. Where and when do people working in a given location buy papers? Do they bring them home, or do others read them later in other locations? Do home subscribers carry copies to work? Do workplace subscribers take copies home? All sections, or some? Only on some days?
Buffalo children tracked by plastic cards with embedded RFID microchips

The charter school's 422 students wear small plastic cards around their necks that have their photograph, name and grade printed on them, and include an embedded RFID chip.
Big Brother Set to Guard a TV Near You

Big Brother technology that already allows people to be tracked through their mobile phones could soon be installed in household objects, tipping off police if they are stolen.
Retailers eye tiny tracking chips

Tiny new radio-emitting chips for tracking retail products from factory to checkout represent a dream for retailers, but a nightmare for privacy activists.
RFID for Credit Card Users

American Express has begun to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in a pilot program centered in the greater Phoenix area.
RFID Privacy Dustup

A pro-consumer privacy group opposed to tagging products with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips says it has made its point after discovering a security hole in the website of the Auto-ID Center, the MIT-based organization working with companies on industry standards for RFID and electronic product codes (EPCs).
RFID Solution Secures Passports

Three French companies have joined forces to develop Intelligent Film for Identification (IFI), an RFID-based authentication product for official documents, including passports, visas and identity cards.
Benetton to track clothing with ID chips

Retail clothing chain Benetton will soon add technology to its garments that allows for real-time tracking of its inventory.
Michelin Embeds RFID Tags in Tires

Michelin this week revealed that it has begun fleet testing of an RFID transponder embedded in its tires to enable them to be tracked electronically.
Supermarket tries out smart tagging

Smart razor blades have been introduced to the shelves of UK supermarket Tesco. In a trial at Tesco's Newmarket Road branch in Cambridge, the packaging of Gillette Mach3 razor blades has been fitted with tiny chips.
Tiny IDs can track almost anything

Computer chips the size of grains of sand have become the latest trend among manufacturers seeking to track everything from automobiles to underwear to razor blades.
Wal-Mart to Require 'Smart Tags'

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is requiring all of its top 100 suppliers to have "smart tags" for better inventory tracking on their pallet shipments by early 2005.
Several consumer products to get 'tagged'

By the end of the year, a host of consumer products will, for the first time, be sold with tiny computer chips known as RFID tags in them. The chips contain small bits of data, such as a product's serial number, which can be read by a scanner. The scanner sends the data to a database so stores and manufacturers can quickly track what is sold.
Tesco to snap every shopper

Tesco supermarket is testing a "Big Brother" anti-theft system which takes pictures of everyone buying high-value products in a bid to stop shoplifting.
Radio ID tags get Microsoft backing

Microsoft is enlisting in a venture designed to help develop standards for radio frequency tags intended for use by retailers and manufacturers to track goods.
I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding 
Wired News | March 4th 2004

MELBOURNE, Australia -- At the Melbourne Motor Show last week, Toyota unveiled a controversial concept car that would very closely monitor, and in some cases restrict, the actions of its driver -- including refusing to turn on.
Big Brother car spy puts privacy at risk

A SCOTTISH computer company which stands to profit from so-called Big Brother technology has warned that it could be used for spying, unless legislation is put in place to protect privacy.
Anger at £1.30-a-mile road toll plan

The Institute for Public Policy Research has recommended that the "Big Brother"-style congestion charging be introduced to fight pollution and traffic gridlock.
'Spy' plans for new cars

The government is reportedly planning to fit all cars in Britain with a personalised microchip so rule-breaking motorists can be prosecuted by computer. The chip will automatically report a wide range of offences including speeding, road tax evasion and illegal parking, according to The Sunday Times newspaper.
Green light after road toll success

As I predicted, immediately after the London road toll initiative was introduced, a fawning British media scrambled to be the first to praise its virtues, thus conditioning the public to support nationwide introduction of GPS satellite tracking via the black boxes being installed in all new cars.
Call for national congestion charge

Congestion charging must be introduced across Britain to prevent the country's busiest routes coming to a standstill, experts have warned.
Big Brother will be watching you

Motorists living in Central London will be spied on by a network of cameras and may have to explain their movements under Ken Livingstone’s congestion charge scheme for the capital.
Traffic tracking plan spurs fear of 'Big Brother'

Little Brother, in this case the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, sent out a letter last week to 200,000 Bay Area residents advising that in September, it will use FasTrak transponders to monitor traffic.
Could Your Car Be Spying On You?

Adrianne Newman loves her SUV. But she never knew it was spying on her! "Shocked. Completely surprised," she says. Like many cars, Adrianne's has a black box - similar to those in airplanes-- that keeps track of her driving.
Black Boxes: Is Big Brother Watching You Drive?

When it comes to keeping you safe on the road, many carmakers rely on information from actual collisions. In fact, when airbags deploy, there's a device that can help carmakers find out what may have happened, which helps them design safer vehicles. But more and more, police agencies are interested in so-called black boxes, raising questions about just who's watching you when you're on the road.
In-Car Black Boxes: Safety Measure Or Spy Tactic?

"Target 32 consumer alert focuses on something inside newer cars that most people do not know they have."
Black box in car to trap speed drivers

Drivers face automatic speeding fines without being caught by the police or roadside cameras under a proposal being studied by the Government to fit all cars with satellite tracking devices for road tolls.
Black Box In Your Car: Safety Device Or Snitch?

There's a good chance there is a black box in your car if it was made within the past several years, Target 5's Lisa Parker reported. "And it landed there with very little discussion about privacy," Parker said.
Coca-Cola's Unexpected Summer Police State Propaganda
Coca-Cola | June 5 2004

 GPS Satellite Tracking is cool and can win you great prizes! Next it's the implanted chip.
Major credit cards shake-up

In a revolution to be introduced by major supermarkets and stores - including Marks and Spencer, Tesco and McDonald's - the 40-year-old method of customers signing on the dotted line to prove their identity will be replaced by them inputting a pin number.
Biometric comes to Topeka

The president of Falley's/Food 4 Less of Topeka envisions a day when consumers will shop for groceries, approach a cash register and, rather than reach for a wallet or purse, pay for the entire purchase with the touch of a finger.
Fingerprint Checkouts

What a pain it is to write a check these days -- all those forms of identification. But now, technology makes it possible to identify customers using their fingerprints. In a flash you can pay for groceries safely.
Hunno to deploy fingerprint ID technology in ATMs

Hunno Technologies Inc. and Hyosung Corp. today announced a deal under which Hunno's fingerprint identification technology will be incorporate into ATM teller machines manufactured by Hyosung.
Liberty raises concerns over thumbprint data

Civil rights groups have reacted cautiously to the news that Bracknell shoppers will be asked to provide thumbprints with credit and cheque transactions.
Now the Pin is mightier than the pen