Toevallig
gisteren in de CBC Sunday Edition (radio) uitgebreid aandacht voor deze chips
die o.a. werden geïmplanteerd in arbeiders/werknemers van Amazon (nog
net geen verplichting, maar.......). Zo kan Amazon zien of haar arbeiders geen tijd verdoen met onnodige handelingen of bijvoorbeeld teveel en te lang naar de wc gaan....
Je kan wel raden waar dit naartoe gaat: uiteindelijk zal iedereen verplicht zo'n chip moeten dragen.... Met
deze chips zal het straks met ons recht op privacy definitief afgelopen zijn,
ook al is daar nu al bar weinig van over........ Dit laatste ten gevolgen van leugens
over terreurgevaar, terwijl de angstzaaiers van deze boodschap, de
geheime diensten van westerse landen, zelfs geen aanslag kunnen
voorkomen als ze de dader al lang in het vizier hebben, zo blijkt
keer op keer........
It Begins: Countries Now Using RFID Technology to Track Citizens’ Movements
March
10, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Written
by Tyler
Durden
(ZHE) In
the not-too-distant future, law enforcement will be able to easily
track our movements thanks to RFID microchips, which some workers
allready have implanted – as we’ve
previously reported.
Indeed,
some people are happily lining up to be microchipped – even
throwing parties to celebrate their coworkers embracing the
microchipping phenomenon, without any regard to how this technology
could be used to further totalitarian aims.
As
technology that tracks our movements becomes more widespread, an
unassuming article in
a trade journal about RFID technology –
which uses radio signals to track movements of people or products –
highlights a portentous development: Honduras, the Philippines and
the Cayman Islands are deploying license plates with RFID technology
to help track their citizens’ movements on highways and other
roads.
The
specific technology being used by these three countries are called
the IDePlate and IDeSTIX. The former is implanted in license plates
while the latter is in innocuously attached to a car’s windshield.
Together, they allow authorities to track their citizens, while also
providing a fallback in case a license plate is stolen.
The
RFID technology, developed by the Dutch firm Tonnjes E.A.S.T, uses
cryptography to verify the owner of a car, which can then be
ascertained by the operator of a scanner similar to the license plate
scanners that are already in wide use by police in the US (which,
as we
pointed out several
years ago, will soon be operated by drones).
Tonnjes
offers governments the hardware needed to fabricate and install the
tags, while also providing the software to program them.
“The
RFID-enabled plate is designed to be forgery-proof, says Jochen Betz,
Tönnjes’ managing director. The UCODE DNA IC uses cryptographic
authentication based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Each
time a tag is interrogated, it generates a new AES calculation based
on its unique crypto key, which the reader receives and is programmed
to verify. That ID number can then be linked to data about the
vehicle and registration in a database.
“By
using both the IDePlate and IDeStix, the system enables users to
identify any misuse of license plates.
The
problem with plate identification alone, the company explains, is
that it cannot detect if the wrong plate is attached to a car. ‘Plate
theft is very difficult to avoid,’ Betz states, so the IDeStix
provides a level of redundancy. The IDeStix is a hologram-printed
windshield sticker that is placed on the window’s interior.
“The
RFID-enabled sticker can be interrogated simultaneously with the
plate tag, and can then respond with its own encrypted code that is
linked to the vehicle’s information. Tönnjes sells the
RFID-enabled blank or finished plates to government agencies and
offers equipment to emboss a plate number. They can then use their
own software to link each tag’s encoded RFID number with the plate
ID.”
While
governments are just beginning to roll out these systems, RFID
Journal notes that one potential complication in rolling out the
windshield-sticker tags (which, again, are necessary to compensate
for license-plate theft) is the number of tags already attached to
vehicles, mostly by their manufacturers, to track their movements.
“When
it comes to the capturing and filtering of data, Betz notes, one
software-based challenge for a system like this is the large number
of RFID tags already attached to parts of most modern vehicles. In
fact, he estimates, there can be 15 or more RFID tags on a single
car, most attached to parts that were being tracked by the
manufacturer prior to the car’s sale. ‘We don’t want to talk to
17 tags [on a single car],’ he states. Therefore, the system is
designed to screen out all tag reads that are not recognized as part
of the IDePlate system.”
In
the Cayman Islands, the RFID-tagging system was adopted last year,
with the island’s government installing checkpoint readers (also
created by Tonnjes) to capture vehicles’ information.
“In
the Cayman Islands, the system was taken live in 2017, with
approximately 50,000 vehicles now equipped with the RFID-enabled
plates and windshield stickers. Between five and 10 checkpoint
readers provided by Tönnjes are scheduled to be installed around the
county. The
company supplies the middleware and software that captures the tag ID
reader data and feeds that information, linked to the vehicle IDs, to
the Cayman Island government’s vehicle database. The
reader installation is posing a unique challenge, Betz says, since
the devices had to be mounted on hurricane-proof gantries. The Cayman
Islands government needs to ensure that the gantries would be able to
sustain high winds.”
The
Philippines has ordered millions of plates to begin rolling out its
own system…
“In
addition, the Land Transportation Office (LTO), a department of the
Philippine Ministry of Transport, has hired Tönnjes to deliver 3.25
million of its license plates for cars and motorcycles. The
government is also purchasing IDeSTIX windscreen labels for 775,000
cars, and IDeSTIX Headlamp Tags for 1.7 million motorcycles.”
And
Turkey is also piloting the technology…
“Turkey
has also piloted the technology with vehicles on a testing course of
the country’s traffic police, while a trial in Russia tracked the
movements of public buses throughout the city of Kazan. In
addition, Tönnjes and Kirpestein are in discussions with the
government of the Netherlands to conduct an open-road pilot, and is
also in talks with vehicle authorities in that country regarding
further pilots of the technology.”
…Which
means it’s only a matter of time before it arrives in the US…
By Tyler
Durden /
Republished with permission / Zero
Hedge / Report
a typo
=============================== Tönnjes Group is overigens geen Nederlandse, maar een Duitse firma, slordig van Durden.
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