Spychips
How Major Corporations and Government Plan
to Track your Every Move with RFID
Katherine Albrecht & Liz McIntyre

Big Brother gets up close and personal

Swastika RFID Chip

Do you know about RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification)? Well, you should, because in just a few short years, this explosive new technology could tell marketers, criminals, and government snoops about you.

Welcome to the world of spychips, where tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand will track everyday objects - and even people - keeping tabs on everything you own and everywhere you go. In this startling, eye-opening book, you'll learn how powerful corporations are planning a future where:

• Strangers will be able to scan the contents of your purse or briefcase from across a room.
• Stores will change prices as you approach-squeezing extra profits out of bargain shoppers and the poor.
• The contents of your refrigerator and medicine cabinet will be remotely monitored.
• Floors, doorways, ceiling tiles, and even picture frames will spy on you - leaving virtually no place to hide.
• Microchip implants will track your ever move - and even broadcast your conversations remotely or electroshock you if you step out of line.

This is no conspiracy theory. Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been invested in what global corporations and the government are calling "the hottest new technology since the bar code." Unless we stop it now, RFID could strip away our last shreds of privacy and usher in a nightmare world of total surveillance - to keep us all on Big Brother's very short leash.

Tracking your every purchase, watching your every move.

Major corporations are working right now to install tiny tracking devices on all consumer products. And if we fail to oppose these practices now, say authors and activists Albrecht and McIntyre, our future may look like something from a terrifying sci-fi novel - it will be 1984 in 2010.

Combining massive amounts of research with firsthand reporting, 'Spychips' explains the new RFID technology (which couples radio frequency with highly miniaturized computers) and reveals the history and future of the master planners' strategies to embed these trackers on everything - from postage stamps to shoes to people themselves - and spy on Americans without our knowledge or consent. This seemingly innocuous commercial maneuver will inevitably turn our society into a Big Brother nightmare.

Analysts envision a time when the system will be used to identify and track every item on the planet, including you. This book is a clarion call to take action now - to protect your privacy and civil liberties before it's too late.

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Tracking Everything Everywhere
2. Spychips 101
3. The Master Plan
4. The Spy in Your Shoe
5. There's a Target on Your Back
6. The RFID Retail Zoo
7. Bring It Home
8. Talking Trash
9. Yes, That's Your Medicine Cabinet
    Talking
10. This Is a Stickup

11. Downshifting into Surveillance Mode
12. The Chips That Won't Die
13. Adapt or Die
14. Are You Next?
15. Your Tax Dollars at Work
16. The Nightmare Scenario
17. Pull the Plug!

Epilogue
Endnotes
Index

270 pages, 6.5 x 9.5, Hardback, Illustrated

Price - $24.95