Germany to roll out ID cards with embedded RFID
The card will also have extended functionality, including the ability to enable citizens to identify themselves in the internet by using the ID card with a reading device at home. After registering an online account bonded to the ID card, are able to do secure online shopping, downloading music and most importantly interact with government [...]
VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire
Jim Edwards | Industry.Bnet.com VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault(SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft company. The combined company will operate under a new name: PositiveID. The all-stock transaction will leave PositiveID in charge of a burgeoning empire of identity, health and microchip implant businesses [...]
Boston launches flu shot tracking
Stephen Smith | Boston.com (from 11/21/2008) Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment – one of the first in the country – aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination. The resulting vaccination map would allow swift intervention in [...]
Mainers invited to become track-your-car guinea pigs
It’s all in the name of research on finding a better way to tax motorists, and the pay is $895. Beth Quimby | PressHerald.MaineToday.com Wanted: 250 Maine drivers willing to let a stranger put a black box under their dashboard. The reward: $895 and the opportunity to speak their minds about the highway tax experiment [...]
Wisconsin court upholds GPS tracking by police
Ryan Foley | ChicagoTribune.com Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody’s movements without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday. However, the District 4 Court of Appeals said it was “more than a little troubled” by that conclusion and asked Wisconsin lawmakers to regulate GPS use to protect against abuse [...]
Napolitano debates Real ID
*Looks like we will find ourselves the center of attention as much of the REAL ID ACT has gotten a facelift with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative program.* Audrey Hudson | Washington Times As governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitanowas no fan of the Real ID program that sets federal standards for state-issued driver’s licenses which will be [...]
Hackers clone passports in drive-by RFID heist
Lain Thomson | ITNews.com Chris Paget, director of research and development at Seattle-based IOActive, used a US$250 Motorola RFID reader and an antenna mounted in a car’s side window and drove for 20 minutes around San Francisco, with a colleague videoing the demonstration. During the demonstration he picked up the details of two US passport [...]
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New machines scan IDs at border crossings
Mimi Hall | USAToday.com Agents along the Canada and Mexico borders are using a controversial new machine that can “read” the personal information contained in some government-issued ID cards — such as passports and driver’s licenses — as travelers approach a checkpoint. The Homeland Security Department says the new practice will tighten security and speed [...]
