Why stop RFID?

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification tags) are microchips that gather and share information about their surroundings. They are read by a remote sensor that can obtain all kinds of personal information about you or the "product" they are attached to and then store it on a database. They are commonly used for practical reasons such as EZPass, contact-less payment, and inventory tracking, but are also used to track the location and verify the identities of human beings. This is advanced technology that could quickly spiral out of control and put your life in the hands of another.

There has already been research linking RFID chips with certain types of cancer in animals http://www.vetpathology.org/cgi/content/full/43/4/545. Do you want to carry around—or even be injected with—another object that could cause harm to you and your family?

These are computer-based systems, and therefore their databases have the capability of being hacked into (and already have been in the past). Once your personal information is stored on them, anyone could access it. Your information could also be sold to advertising agencies, which would then use it to market specifically to you. Google already knows what you write to your friends. Do you want them to know exactly where you were last night, too? They might even contact you to find out why you didn’t go see that movie you said you would see. What’s to stop these companies from using this information to control you to do what they want?

Already, governments around the world have proposed their use in passports, driver’s licenses, and in the flesh of law enforcement agents and military forces. How long will it be before they propose to implant civilians with chips? Some employers will use RFID implantation as a requirement for employees. If the government had the power to monitor your every move, would you feel safe? Protected? Free? Or does this remind you of novels such as 1984—horror stories that, when we read them as teenagers, we shuddered with fear.

It is time for the people to become informed about these devices before they are used against us. Please, invite your friends to be part of the movement to ban RFID from personal identification systems.


Protect your identity, protect your privacy, stop RFID