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[privacy] UK: Prisoners 'To Be Chipped Like Dogs'
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:03:04 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Independent. [snip] Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails. Amid concerns about the security of existing tagging systems and prison overcrowding, the Ministry of Justice is investigating the use of satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor criminals. But, instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scanable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record. The tags, labelled "spychips" by privacy campaigners, are already used around the world to keep track of dogs, cats, cattle and airport luggage, but there is no record of the technology being used to monitor offenders in the community. The chips are also being considered as a method of helping to keep order within prisons. [snip] More: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3333852.ece Hat-tip: Chronicles of Dissent: http://www.pogowasright.org/blogs/dissent/?p=781 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHiqa8q1pz9mNUZTMRAjbGAJ40JfIKqP8vzedsn2QAfnahHN16SACbBlU2 dtjIZMJh4btItJtTqb/GL+c= =8jaZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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