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Now, because these chips are going to be so widely used, your information will be able to be scanned at a distance and clone. Now of course, they can change the information on a chip but when it comes to cloning your passport, anyone who has a similar physical attributes can easily steal your identity.
For example, you’re six foot tall. You have brown hair and brown eyes and an olive complexion. How many people have—that profile, all they have to do is counterfeit a passport with the changed picture and a cloned RFID chip and all of a sudden, there’s two, three, four, maybe even five of you walking around. Now, what can you do to protect yourself? Well, privacy advocates have four recommendations that they think you should pushed for, vote for if you’re given the chance and generally demand when purchasing items that are no doubt going to be equipped with this.
First of all, they are demanding the manufacturers; notify consumers that they are using this technology. Secondly, they want it made so that these chips can be disabled at the checkout counter. Thirdly, they’re pushing that these RFID chips are included in the packaging and not the products—fourthly, they want these chips to be visible and removable. Let’s say on the packaging, these things have a chip. The chip is here. You can tear it off and throw it out if you want. Now of course, this technology is so far reaching and—it seems an almost instrumentable obstacle in protecting your privacy. Whether it’s the government keeping tracks of where you go, what you do and what you buy or the private sector collecting an inventory of everything you do so that they can sell to marketers, it seems that one way or another, you have now way out.
Perhaps then, our best chance of protecting our privacy is looking into technology that could potentially dump in the signals that RFID chips work on. Something you might be able to carry in your pocket that can create some type of magnetic field around you that kills a signal, prevents us from being read. Is this possible? Who knows, if it is and it was not of our crime before the government ands especially the private sector find the way around it or even the manufacturer’s device, rigging the device to ignore certain products so that they can still get around into the cells.
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