Monday, September 8, 2008

RFID - Revolution or panopticon?

Our privacy and freedoms are quietly eroding beneath this information technology onslaught.
With the wholesale introduction of RFID chipped passports and driver’s licenses, the capitalist panoptic state is quickly — and quietly — falling into place.
Under conditions of a looming economic meltdown, rising unemployment, staggering debt, the collapse of financial markets and continuing wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. imperialism, in order to shore up its crumbling empire, will continue to import totalitarian methods of rule employed in its “global war on terror” onto the home front.
The introduction of RFID-chipped passports and driver’s licenses for the mass surveillance and political repression of the American people arises within this context.
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