Big Brother on a tiny chip-- March 20, 2006 -- Rosie Lombardi
A key concern was the use of active RFID chips, which emit a constant signal that can potentially be read by criminals covertly scanning passport holders at airports. The agency has since announced it will proceed with a revised plan using passive RFID chips, which emit no signal until they are activated by a reader at close range. As of October 2006, all U.S. passports will contain RFID chips.

FDA
Ed: clarification ....
VeriChip is FDA approved only when it is intra-muscular and used for medical purposes. It is NOT approved for financial and security purposes, and they even say so in their press releases.

"VeriChip is the only company that offers FDA-approved, human implantable RFID. We're the only ones on the block," he says. The company offers a variety of systems that represent the state of the art today in human RFID."

VeriMed
Ed : Clarification ...
How can ADS say it is "voluntary" when eventually all medical applications will require a Verichip for record keeping? To choose not to take the chip means that health care will be denied.

Yes, one could be tracked with this chip. Certainly medical tracking leaves one terribly vulnerable to an arbitrary system of adopted guidelines and insurance prohibitives.
Anytime one's implanted arm is near a scanner, one can be tracked.

"VeriMed is a voluntary medical device offered to those who choose to adopt it. This system is not used for tracking – it is strictly for identification, and that's an important distinction," says Procter

VeriGuard ID..
Ed: the following statement is very revealing.
It implies that both the VeriGuard ID number and the VeriMed ID number on the implanted chip within the arm is a consigned number ( similar to an EMPLOYEE ID number) and NOT one's Social Security number. The VeriGuard and VeriMed chip can be interchangeable, as the statement below confirms.

We can then deduce that when VeriChip is finally implanted in the right hand or forehead for Financial transactions, then at that time [ and for the first time ] it will most likely have one's unique Social Security number imprinted within it.
At that point, it will not be interchangeable for any other application.

We know from the Bible that the chip in the right hand or forehead HAS to be vastly different from any other implantable chip, since it is damning. Rev. 14 : 9--11
It will therefore have to have a different number and will NOT be interchangeable with the VeriGuard and VeriMed systems, or any other application for that matter.
It will ONLY be used exclusively with the 666 global Financial System of the beast, complete with his name or number or image.

Since the hand-forehead chip will be different in number, it is not too hard to envision the fact that VeriChip will call these chips by a different name ... perhaps a name that allies with the Beast.
And perhaps a tattoo-image will be externally placed on the skin above the implanted chip for easy
scannability, as well as proclaiming Loyalty and agreement with the 666 Financial System.

"If an employee leaves the company, the ID number is removed from the access list, but the chip is not removed from the employee's arm, he says. "It can be used for other medical identification purposes."
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"Many technology cheerleaders are naïve and short-sighted about the way technology is, can or will be used," says Philippa Lawson, executive director at the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC). "People have not thought through the societal implications of RFID. Is this the direction we want to be heading, giving the capability to third parties to engage in ubiquitous and surreptitious surveillance?"

"what is purportedly voluntary in the vast majority of cases is not fully informed consent"
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