Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in Your tennis shoe tracks Your Every move; chips woven into Your clothing transmit the value of Your outfit to nearby retailers; and a thief scans the chips hidden inside Your money to decide if you\'re worth robbing.
She serves as CASPIAN\'s communications director and has been the master strategist for many of the organization\'s most successful media campaigns..
Liz Mc Intyre is an award-winning investigative writer with a flair for exposing corporate shenanigans and bureaucratic misdeeds.
Katherine holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University.
Dubbed the "Erin Brockovich" of RFID by Wired magazine, she is one of the leading voices for privacy in today\'s fast-changing, high-tech world.
Katherine Albrecht is the founder and director of CASPIAN, an international consumer group.
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Combining in-depth research with firsthand reporting, Spychips reveals how RFID technology, if left unchecked, could soon destroy our privacy, radically alter the economy, and open the floodgates for civil liberty abuses.
While manufacturers and the Government want you to believe that they would never misuse the technology, the future looks like an Orwellian nightmare when you consider the possibilities of surveillance and tracking these chips embody.
Spychips takes readers into the frightening world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
This isn\'t science fiction; in a few short years, it could be a fact of life.
Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in Your tennis shoe tracks Your Every move; chips woven into Your clothing transmit the value of Your outfit to nearby retailers; and a thief scans the chips hidden inside Your money to decide if you\'re worth robbing
