posted on Mar, 11 2010 @ 02:34 AM
Yet another example of micro management of the entire populace...except this time they can make money off of it by selling ad space.
I'm really amused by all the backdoor ways various governments are bringing pure military technology into play against thier own people.
I like the selling points mentioned: it doesn't have the big brother feel and it can be used to monitor large groups in case they turn into
riotous mobs.
Might as well through in a cell reciever to and high powered scanner too, that way you could cross-reference the coming ID cards with the SIM from a
person's cell phone.
What a great way to sidestep privacy issues without needing to worry about obtaining a warrent.
500 ft altitude?
I remember the US story last year about the RFID tags that the Canadian government is phasing into passports (and trying hard to get in to driver's
lisences) and how border guards could scan them from 100M (300 ish feet). At the same time here in Canada, the government was telling us that the
maximum effective range was 1M (3ish feet).
Previous to thier release, the spokesperson deflected the issue by actually laughing it off; questioning if people honestly thought the government was
going to follow behind every citizen with a scanner.
Follow behind me? No, but with the increasing use of cameras everywhere I have to question how long it will be until the RFID scaners are incoporated
into them.
Why waste the opportunity.
[edit on 11-3-2010 by [davinci]]