-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Matt Mc_carthy:

 WC> Not to fear however as when we all have chips implanted locatable
 WC> by satellite the "Department of Information Awareness" will clear
 WC> this all up because the government is too moral and ethical to
 WC> abuse such information.

 RJT> Implanted chips?

It's not far off. in  fact "digital Angel", an implantable
locator chip  is already here :-(  Not however compulsory... yet.
Currently Florida is looking into global positioning devices
in cars to move the highway maintanance gas tax from the gas
pump to actual mileage usage by such monitoring.
I scarcely see the difference in this proposal as far as highway
maintanance except gas guzzling SUV's and commecial big rigs would 
appear to benefit as the greater costs were transferred to those 
driving gas efficient vehicles. Privacy issues are another matter :-(
The Department of Information Awareness is requiring every bit of
information about every citizen right down to medical records
and DNA, other personal information is supposed to soon be encoded
into drivers licenses.
How far off could the compulsory implanted locator chip be?
It'll be sold as for our own good and security of course
but what such controls once put into place have not been widely abused?
Remember when the Soviet Union was bad for requiring travel papers?
Now we're on the verge of the government knowing when you go to 
K-Mart or the local 7-11.

 RJT> Yeah.  I get to that point,  and it'll be time for a new subscription
 RJT> -- to "Suture Self,  the magazine of home surgery..."

I've a better idea, a personal EMP device, and just fry the chip taking
you off the GPS _radar_. 
Such a device need not be at all difficult to build
due to the close proximity and simple designs widely available on the
web. Seems to me soon the only people not locatable in the U.S.
may be terrorists who sneak in while law abiding citizens
will be easily tracked :-(

 
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