http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/rfid Fear It. Mon, 30 May 2011 14:03:52 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/rfid/comment-page-1#comment-25 MrPikes Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:45:50 +0000 http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/?p=24#comment-25 I've read <i>No Place to Hide</i> and recommend it highly. In addition to the information it provides about private sector data collection, it explores the information interchange between the private and public sectors. Public records are hoovered up by companies like Acxiom, enhanced with data correlated from other sources (your supermarket club card data, for example) and resold to federal agencies. This is what got Total Information Awareness, CAPPS2 and SecureFlight in trouble. There may be nothing in the law stopping federal agencies from buying data, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congress can specifically forbid agencies from using that data in funded programs, which is what they did in all three cases. I’ve read No Place to Hide and recommend it highly. In addition to the information it provides about private sector data collection, it explores the information interchange between the private and public sectors. Public records are hoovered up by companies like Acxiom, enhanced with data correlated from other sources (your supermarket club card data, for example) and resold to federal agencies. This is what got Total Information Awareness, CAPPS2 and SecureFlight in trouble. There may be nothing in the law stopping federal agencies from buying data, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congress can specifically forbid agencies from using that data in funded programs, which is what they did in all three cases.

]]> http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/rfid/comment-page-1#comment-24 Jack Ehrhardt Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:22:19 +0000 http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/?p=24#comment-24 A good companion book for <i>Spychips</i> would be <i>No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society</i>, by Robert O'Harrow. This latter book focuses on the massive databases that RFID tags are feeding, as well as the sophisticated correlation techniques applied to this information by the likes of Acxiom, CheckPoint, the NSA, and your local supermarket. A good companion book for Spychips would be No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society, by Robert O’Harrow. This latter book focuses on the massive databases that RFID tags are feeding, as well as the sophisticated correlation techniques applied to this information by the likes of Acxiom, CheckPoint, the NSA, and your local supermarket.

]]> http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/rfid/comment-page-1#comment-26 Katherine Albrecht Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:06:00 +0000 http://www.mrpikes.com/blog/?p=24#comment-26 Nice to see such a cogent and well thought out argument against item-level RFID. (Thanks for mentioning our book, too!) Nice to see such a cogent and well thought out argument against item-level RFID. (Thanks for mentioning our book, too!)

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