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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are you telling me that you didn't know if you use
your in store card that they were tracking that??</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=timlohr@yahoo.com href="mailto:timlohr@yahoo.com">Tim Lohrmann</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 03, 2005 9:17
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] "Track this!"
Tell-all RFID book flies off of shelves</DIV>
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<DIV>“<I>It’s like watching Big Brother come home and get a rolling pin broken
over his head by Mrs. Big Brother, who knows that, even though he thinks he’s
everybody’s daddy, he’s a stalker, and a voyeur, and a crook, and a cheat, and
a drunk on his own ego, and a handwashing, sniveling deadbeat who ought to be
ashamed of himself.” </I><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>– From the foreword by Bruce Sterling, best-selling author,
Wired commentator,<BR> and RFID "Visionary in Residence," Art Center
College of Design </BLOCKQUOTE>
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HITS AMAZON BESTSELLER LIST TWO DAYS BEFORE RELEASE<BR>Scathing Expose of
Corporate and Government Plans for RFID Abuse Flies off Shelves<BR><BR>Two
days before its official October 4 release date, <B><I>Spychips: How Major
Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID</I></B>
stunned the world with its meteoric rise on the bestseller charts. On
Sunday, the book hit #6 on Amazon's nonfiction bestseller list, and #15
overall. <BR><BR>While it was great news for publisher Nelson Current, it
was very bad news for IBM, Procter & Gamble, NCR and many other global
corporations who take a beating in the book for their scandalous plans to
watch consumers through RFID microchips embedded in their belongings.
<BR><BR>Backers of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology have
long denied their intentions to track people, claimin! g their interest in
the technology is solely for supply chain applications. But in "Spychips,"
authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre reveal companies' patented plans
to use RFID to watch consumers everywhere they go and bombard them with
unwanted advertising. <BR><BR>PR departments of some of the world’s largest
organizations will soon be working overtime to answer embarrassing questions
about patent pending devices like IBM's "Person Tracking Unit" that monitors
people as they innocently roam through shopping malls, elevators, sports
arenas, libraries, theatres, museums, and even restrooms. Such revelations
will undoubtedly undermine IBM's recent efforts to position itself as an
RFID "privacy consultant."<BR><BR>Procter & Gamble will be hard pressed
to explain why it holds a patent titled "Systems and Methods for Tracking
Consumers in a Store Environment" that uses tagged items to follow and watch
customers as they walk around a store, and why P&G says its RFID plans!
will be lucrative for itself but "useless" to consumers. And NCR, the
company that supplies cash registers and scanners to retailers around the
world, including Wal-Mart, will have to explain its plans for shelves
designed to change the price of products depending on who's standing in
front of them.<BR><BR>Dozens of other companies, unprincipled inventors, and
public officials dabbling in the world of "spychips" have their day of
reckoning in the book, as Albrecht and McIntyre's determined investigation
exposes them all. One particularly haunting chapter even reveals a plan to
imbed human RFID implants deep in the organs of prisoners, the mentally ill,
and "employees within an enterprise campus" that can track people's
movements, electroshock them, and even broadcast their conversations
remotely. <BR><BR>"Spychips" has already drawn rave reviews and was honored
with the November 2005 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature
of Liberty. "We had a feeling the book would do! well when it hit several
online bestseller lists months before its official release,” says Albrecht.
“But even we were surprised at how eager the public is to learn this
information. They're buying this book because they can't find these facts
anywhere else." <BR><BR><BR>
<DIV align=center><B><I>SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government Plan
to Track your Every Move with RFID</I></B></DIV><BR>
<DIV align=center>Nelson Current • October 4, 2005 • Nonfiction • Political
Science</DIV><BR>
<DIV align=center>Hardcover • 270 Pages • $24.99 • ISBN:
1-5955-5020-8</DIV><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>“<I>It’s like watching Big Brother come home and get a rolling
pin broken over his head by Mrs. Big Brother, who knows that, even though
he thinks he’s everybody’s daddy, he’s a stalker, and a voyeur, and a
crook, and a cheat, and a drunk on his own ego, and a handwashing,
sniveling deadbeat who out to be ashamed of himself.” </I><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>– From the foreword by Bruce Sterling, best-selling author,
Wired commentator,<BR> and RFID "Visionary in Residence," Art
Center College of Design </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>“<I>Brilliantly
written</I>—<I>so scary and depressing I want to put it down, so full of
fascinating vignettes and facts that I can't put it down.”</I>
<BLOCKQUOTE>– Freedom activist and author Claire Wolfe </BLOCKQUOTE>
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