...yet still aiming for higher achievements regarding technology. However, is it only good that technology is soaring so high as to allowing modern day people to rely on the convenience almost too easily? Cell phones and computers are only a small percentage of the technology in which we are almost depending on too much. There are robots that clean our carpets, and even small chips that are to hold our entire identity in the near future. Barack Obama, the current American president, had promised a massive change to “modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic.” A group of Senators and the President have as a matter of fact already convened to put together a bill to have every citizen have Bio-metric ID or VeriChip in their bodies. This idea has approached from Obama’s ambition for computerizing of all medical records in order to make health care more cost-effective. If this bill passes and becomes a law in the United States, the microchip will be forced to be inserted typically in every individual’s right arm in order to legally have a job. The microchip will consist of a barcode that will provide such information when scanned: fingerprints, retinal scans, and every other possible identification of an individual – allowing the government to track every move of a person. This chip will be produced using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Device) technology, and will have unlimited personal information about anyone at any accessible time. A new revolution...
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...be. These in other words, mean that you will be a cyborg, which is part human and part machine. This leads to the discussion of ethical stand point and the broad uses of it. One must also ask themselves that will this lead to a helpful outcome in its future uses, or would you see it as a serious threat to your privacy and a potential tool for the government to gain power on individuals and for businesses to make a living out of personal life. This technology is not just in movies such as Jonny Neumonic, Cyborg, Gattica and Matrix, but is here now and nearly ready to be used. It is the new product by Applied Digital Solutions of Florida named the VeriChip. On October 12, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration approved VeriChip for medical applications in the United States. This approval allows VeriChip for use of strict identity purposes, and uses in blood type checks, allergy identification and medical history of unconscious patients. This is meant as a basica a substitute for the previously used Medical tags that was worn as a bracelet and or necklace. However, the device...
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...I think that the subject of RFID is very interesting. I believe the application is what the “fuss” should be over. I think using RFID to track cows, so if they wander off, the farmer can find them again is an outstanding application of RFID. The same goes RFIDs in hospital bracelets on newborns to prevent the unauthorized removal of the baby from the hospital. (Both my kids had them in their bracelets). But what I feel is concerning is that we live in an age of “me, me, me” “now, now, now”, and we want to put this technology into everything. And as justification, we say “it will make my life easier”. Really? Was it really that hard to swipe a credit card? Apparently so, because all we have to do now is tap them. What about product tracking? Companies are interested in this technology to track their products from purchase to trash. A container of milk containing an RFID tag is picked up at a grocery store. The expiration date can be automatically sent to your cell phone. Instead of standing in line to check out, you can just walk past a tag reader. This can calculate the total of your purchase and send the bill directly to your bank. In addition, the manufacturer of the product can be notified to ship more products to the store, and the store can be notified of the empty space on its shelf. Once home, and you put your milk into your “smart refrigerator”. This can track your usage, and when you empty the container, you can have messages sent to remind you to buy more milk, or...
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...Abstract This paper explores controversial issues that plague the use of microchip implants and how deeply rooted the issues are in many organizations today. The implications and concerns, along with the advantages, have been pondered by governments, religious groups, law enforcement agencies, the financial industry, and the medical field. We now have the technology to implant a microchip in very human on the planet. Will we, as a nation or a global community, ever support the use of the microchip implant in every man, woman and child around the world? The technology is available and the need is abundant. I believe our government will implement a mandate of microchip implants within the next twenty years. Will the General Public Ever Accept a Microchip implant? We Have the Technology: Before the turn of the century, the idea of using microchips to carry and transmit large amount of information had been something that only happened in sci-fi movies. Today it’s something many fear will become as necessary as a social security number is to every person in the United States. Still, there are many who welcome such technology and realize the advantages it could bring to modern society. For example, it could easily store the kind of information that would simplify and expedite security, medical care, loan approvals, and background checks. (Sickler, M., 2002) The ability to implant, In to a human, a means to quickly and securely gain access on their true identity and...
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...Kayla Wiggins November 19, 2015 Prof. Ronaszegi English 101 RFID Implants: “You won’t know it’s there but we will” It’s safe to say that none of us would be contempt knowing that we’re being tracked or recorded yet everyone carries a mobile phone, right? RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) deprives us of our privacy rights. The chip is about the size of a grain of rice and is to be located on the dorsal side of your hand. Embedded in every phone is an RFID chip that tracks our every move when we open apps such as GPS, or microphones, cameras and cell tower triangulation (mathematical method that uses the distance of a cellphone from three or more cell towers to calculate the location of the cellphone.)(Regel, A., 2013). This seems to be okay since it’s not forced upon us, and besides, who doesn’t want the newest cell phone? We will even go as far as paying big bucks to have the best “tracking device” we can buy. Having a tracking device implanted in our skin is quite alarming and a little stalker-like. This tiny capsule, which has been approved by the FDA, allows doctors to confirm a patient’s identity and obtain detailed medical information from a database. Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Florida, plans to market the chips to hospitals, doctors, and patients as a way to improve health care and avoid errors by ensuring that doctors know who they’re treating and their personal health information (Michael K., 2005). I believe some legislation should be put into...
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...procedure, and finally the percentage of people that will be willing to go through this procedure. Body of Analysis Radio frequency identification technology is slick and easy to manage and also comes in three general varieties, namely; passive, active, and semi-passive (also known as battery-assisted). Passive tags need no internal power source and are only active when a reader is close by to power them, while semi-passive and active both require a power source, usually batteries. Different songs of praises can be sung for RFID, but when it comes to implanting in humans, it raises eyebrows, which are followed by human rights. However, in 2004, the food and drug administration gave a final approval to Applied Digital Solutions to sell their VeriChip RFID...
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...CURRENT TOPICS IN COMPUTING (CSC 812) A RESEARCH ON RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) (PRESENT, FUTURE APPLICATION, SECURITY IMPLICATION AND CRITICS) SUBMITTED BY AKINSOWON, TOSIN BLESSING (060805018) IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF MASTER DEGREE TO DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES, FACULTY OF SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA, YABA, LAGOS. SESSION 2012/2013 SUPERVISED BY Prof H.O.D LONGE Abstract Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been available for more than fifty years. However it has only been recently that the prices of RFID devices have fallen to the point where these devices can be used as a "throwaway" inventory. This presents numerous opportunities along with innumerable risks. A lot of research is being done to suggest methods which will ensure secure communications in RFID systems. The objective of this paper is to present RFID technology, its current, future applications, study various potential threats to security, and Critics of RFID. 1 Introduction RFID 1.0 BACKGROUND STUDY Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification system. It make use of Radio Frequency (RF) to identify “tagged” items .Data collected were transmitted to a host system using a Radio Frequency Reader. RFID is one of the numerous technologies grouped under the term Automatic Identification (Auto ID), such as bar code, magnetic inks, optical character recognition (OCR), voice recognition, touch memory, smart cards, biometrics etc. Auto ID technologies...
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...sure---there will be a literal 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation, a literal Antichrist and a literal "Mark of the Beast." There are many claims today concerning what is the Mark of the Beast. Some Christians have believed that it is the Social Security number, notwithstanding the fact that most countries around the world do not even issue Social Security numbers or cards. Many people, claiming to be Christians, such as many Seventh Day Adventists, believe worshipping the Lord on the first day of the week, rather than the seventh day, is taking the Mark of the Beast. Many Christians believe that a UPC bar code is the Mark of the Beast. In the past few years many Christians have accepted the idea that an electronic chip, biochip, microchip, or VeriChip that can be implanted under the skin is the Mark of the Beast. There are other ideas about what the Mark is, or will be, but most have no real basis from the Scriptures. So, let us see from the Word of God what we can know about the Mark of the Beast, and what we can deduce, by implication from the Scriptures. The Mark of the Beast will be a literal mark, it will not be some kind of "spiritual" or non-physical mark. We can know this because, according to Revelation 16:2, those who take the Mark will later have a physical reaction: "it became a loathsome and malignant sore" (NASB), "a bad and evil sore" KJIIV), "there came a sore---bad and grievous---to men, those having the mark of the beast" (Young's Literal Translation). More will...
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...* Tracking the economic value of the embedded technology: Future outlook and trends: The Embedded Digital Technology use in our everyday life is highly significant. To some estimate, around 98% of all the programmable digital devices are in some way embedded which includes the digital devices which embedded under the humans skin. Both current and future studies and trends suggests to a dramatic potential for a much bigger growth. All the future outlooks of this technology points to a much wider use based on both enhanced functionality and cost reduction. “There are now more embedded devices than people on earth. As chips and wireless communications become universal and inexpensive, an enormous potential is created for new applications and novel ways to support our society and people’s lives” said Viviane Reding The former European Commissioner for the Directorate General Information Society & Media. This study by author Geomina Turlia and conducted with the support of European Commission, focused on the inter-linked between macro and micro approach to the technology so it can support the importance of the proposed overall methodology when looking into the economic value of the embedded devices in general. However, it is as important for implementation purposes to also use other supported tools like using a European National Accounts Data so finding the correct economic value can be refined specifically when more needed sectorial or thematic studies can be further conducted...
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...The unsettling thing about living in a surveillance society is not just that you are being watched. It is that you have no idea. M a r i n e D r o u a r t L E A 3 L a e t i t i a F o u r e u r INDEX Introduction 3 I. A. B. You are Being Watched in Popular Culture The Firm by John Grisham Surveillance in Other Works 3 3 4 II. A. B. C. Surveillance in Daily Lives History Different Kinds of Surveillance Regulation of The Surveillance 5 5 7 14 III. A. B. Reversal of The Situation: Everyone can Watch One Another Exhibitionism Voyeurism 17 17 19 Conclusion 21 SOURCES 22 2 Introduction: Our freedom is always under electronic surveillance. Computer technologies have increased; this is what specialists call "traceability". Our operations, our conversations, our tastes and interests leave traces in the multiple computer systems that manage our daily lives. All these data are collected, centralized and stored by public or private organizations that can know at any time the "profile" of each individual. Every day in so many ways we are being watched. We are told it is for our own good, our own protection, to make our lives better, but is...
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...Kevin Wang Dr. Pearce Rhetoric 102 19 March 2010 The Brain Implant Dilemma In 2002, author M.T. Anderson wrote a novel called “Feed”, with a story envisioning a future where all human beings have implanted computer chips in their brains (Anderson 2002). It would be easy to dismiss such a bold concept as a product of fiction. However, many films and books with plots set in the future have successfully predicted the invention of many current technologies that simply did not exist at the time, including flat-screen TVs (Back to the Future II), unmanned aircraft (The Terminator), and video chatting (2001: A Space Odyssey). Suffice it to say, brain implants, as these embedded computer chips are called, are projected to become a reality. The past few years have already seen the integration of computer chip and organism, with millions of cats and dogs across the world injected with identifying microchip implants underneath their skin. Brain implants have also benefitted the medical field enormously, having in some cases cured blindness (Graham-Rowe 2007) and Parkinson’s disease (Harding 2009). However, developments indicate that brain implants for personal consumer use may see the light of day. IBM, the world’s largest chipmaker, recently announced their intent to research and develop brain implants capable of controlling gadgets via brain waves by 2020 (Hsu 2009). Toyota has already successfully demoed a wheelchair that can be controlled by its rider through brain waves...
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...University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of Informatics - Honours Theses (Archive) University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 2005 Ethical Issues arising from the Real Time Tracking and Monitoring of People Using GPS-based Location Services A. Mcnamee University of Wollongong Publication Details This thesis was originally submitted as McNamee, A, Ethical Issues arising from the Real Time Tracking and Monitoring of People Using GPS-based Location Services, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (Honours), University of Wollongong, 2005,71p. Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: research-pubs@uow.edu.au Ethical Issues arising from the Real Time Tracking and Monitoring of People Using GPS-based Location Services Abstract The Global Positioning System is a constellation of 24 satellites which have the ability to calculate the position, time and velocity of any GPS receiver. Ethical concerns arise when a person carrying a receiver has their location transmitted to second party. This type of tracking has a wide variety of applications including tracking dementia sufferers, tracking parolees and law enforcement. A literature review found that the ethics of GPS tracking has not been thoroughly assessed. This paper investigates the ethical issues arising from the real time tracking of people using GPS-based location services. Usability...
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...Article « Analyse de la trajectoire historique de la monnaie électronique » Marc Lacoursière Les Cahiers de droit, vol. 48, n° 3, 2007, p. 373-448. Pour citer cet article, utiliser l'information suivante : URI: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/043936ar DOI: 10.7202/043936ar Note : les règles d'écriture des références bibliographiques peuvent varier selon les différents domaines du savoir. Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter à l'URI http://www.erudit.org/apropos/utilisation.html Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'Université de Montréal, l'Université Laval et l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. Érudit offre des services d'édition numérique de documents scientifiques depuis 1998. Pour communiquer avec les responsables d'Érudit : erudit@umontreal.ca Document téléchargé le 30 janvier 2014 01:23 analyse de la trajectoire historique de la monnaie électronique Marc « l a C o u rsiè re Le développement de l’argent et des mécanismes de paiement est d’abord apparu par la création du troc, lequel a engendré la monnaie métallique, qui a donné naissance à la monnaie papier pour être graduellement remplacée par la monnaie électronique. À chacune de ces étapes, le degré d’acceptation de la monnaie est tributaire...
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