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Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

Tracking your every purchase, watching our every move. Major corporations are working right now to install tiny tracking devices on all consumer products, find if we fail to oppose these practices now say authors and activists Albrecht and Mclntyre, our future may look like something from a terrifying sci-fi novel - it will be 1984 in 2010. Combining massive amounts of research with firsthand reporting, Spychips explains the new RFID technology [which couples radio frequency with highly miniaturized computers] And reveals the history and future of the master planners' strategies to embed these trackers on everything - from postage stamps to shoes to people themselves - and spy on Americans without our knowledge or consent. This seemingly innocuous commercial maneuver will inevitably turn our society into a Big Brother nightmare. Analysts envision a time when the system will be used to identify and track every item on the planet, including you. This book is a clarion call to take action now - to protect our privacy and civil liberties before it's too late. KATHERINE ALBRECHT is the founder and director of CASPIAN [Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering]. A Harv

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