Big Brother: Satellites Track Kidnap Victims

 

Satellites Are Used For Tracking Humans

Big Brother is at it again.  Now, Mexicans who fear for their lives can get a tiny transmitter implanted under their skin that can be tracked via satellites. 

Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims with chips

By Mica Rosenberg

QUERETARO, Mexico (Reuters) – Affluent Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.

…More people, including a growing number of middle-class Mexicans, are seeking out the tiny chip designed by Xega, a Mexican security firm whose sales jumped 13 percent this year. The company said it had more than 2,000 clients.

…The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients’ bodies with a syringe. A transmitter in the chip then sends radio signals to a larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it, Xega says. A satellite can then pinpoint the location of a person in distress. (more… )

Big Brother: Homeland Security Wants to Collect More Data

Department of Homeland Security

“The Department of Homeland Security is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search, and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country.”

 

Big Brother, aka “The Department of Homeland Security” is at it again.  Check out the following U.S. News & World Report article:

Homeland Security Explores Ambitious Plan to Collect More Personal Data From Foreign Travelers

By Alex Kingsbury

Posted August 20, 2008

The Department of Homeland Security is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search, and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country. The objective is to collect better data on foreigners who violate the law while in the country or who overstay their visas.

… Travelers, including all American citizens, are already subject to search without suspicion at border crossings and occasionally have electronic devices searched, duplicated, and stored.

… Next summer, all passports used at border crossings must be machine readable, and many will contain radio-frequency chips that—at least in theory—could allow border guards to scan arriving and departing visitors as their cars roll through checkpoints. That’s the hope anyway—an EZ-Pass-style system for border crossings. (more… )