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The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » RFID implants are not the “Mark of the Beast”
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4 years ago
First, you say that: " ... that same tracking feature could also be used by a malevolent government as a means to monitor citizens. Fortunately, America does not currently face that threat, making it foolish to oppose the technology." As the article The American Taliban makes clear, we are in fact facing just such a malevolency.
Second, you suggest that having this data maintained by a private company (rather than by the government) somehow solves the privacy issue. This is nonesense, of course, in this age of the Patriot Act which requires any company upon demand to give up to the government any data it holds. It is precisely because of propagandizing articles like yours that the government can successfully use corporations to collect data that the government is not politically able to collect for itself.