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What Can We Do? We shouldn't close on such a bleak note because it simply isn't true that there is nothing we can do, although we have left it pretty late. We have a good chance if we recognise what's going wrong. We need to: CCTV and surveillance technologies are used for this | What Can We Do? identification. RFID has an obvious application: the We shouldn't close on such a bleak note because it identities of everyone in a crowd could be collected by simply isn't true that there is nothing we can do, one mingling plain-clothes policeman with an RFID although we have left it pretty late. We have a good reader. chance if we recognise what's going wrong. We need to: The RFID facility can also be useful to states with mobile populations. India is anticipating the migration 1. Organise internationally. One campaign group is of large numbers of the rural population to the cities. It slightly ahead in this area: CASPIAN (Consumers plans to use a combination of RFID and GPS-based _ Against Surveillance, Privacy-Invasion And Numbering). Geographical Information Systems (GIF) to It has an international membership, works closely with automatically record the voter migration or shifting of | other groups in different nations and addresses the residence and to automatically bigger picture, including corporate update databases such as the data-gathering and RFID. The author electoral register. One can also see suggests CASPIAN as a good initial how useful this would be to the hub for contact. Chinese authorities, with large 2. Raise awareness, engage the numbers of rural peasants migrating _— . public. It's time to raise this issue at to cities, illegally, to work as an It's incredible how every opportunity to get people untraceable, unstable underclass. thinking about the direction of public So, is this the model to be applied much people have policy, to draw their attention to what's elsewhere: increasing inequality, willingly going on. increasing slum populations and . 3. Expose the mindset of people unrest controlled through security? cooperated in implementing this scheme. The aim Such displacement is a global handing over their of ID cards is to create a detailed phenomenon. And yes, the World | digital record of everywhere you go, Bank has an explicit role in persona everything you do. The aim of the RFID industry is Total Mobility— continuously — tracking he movement of all significant objects and people. What kind of mind and personality would want such a thing? 4. Don't use cards, use cash. It's incredible how much people have willingly cooperated in handing over their personal information, cooperating in the In the USA, cities are dying, surveillance of their lives. Try not with whole neighbourhoods and to leave a digital record. Don't let in some cases whole districts being bulldozed, their your card identify you. oo inhabitants dispossessed. The plight of Detroit residents is reminiscent of post-Katrina New Orleans, Endnotes with private military contractors assuming government __ 1. Albrecht, Katherine and Liz Mcintyre, Spychips: How powers in Urban Management Zones designated for — ™ajor corporations and government plan to track your every wholesale clearance. This is the western manifestation Purchase and watch your every move with RFID, Nelson of a global pattern. In 2009, the US Census Bureau Current, 2005, p. 64, "There's a target on your back" plans to find even the people who have lost their 2. Gellman, Barton, "The FBI's Secret Scrutiny: In Hunt homes, by employing 140,000 temporary workers to look for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary for hidden and improvised housing units and obtain Americans , Washington Post, 11/06/05 GPS coordinates for every "front door". A current legal Editor's Note: case may make that data available to private sector This is an edited version of Nathan Allonby's article "ID promoting this, saying that urbanisation and migration are good and necessary things. As described in Professor Mike Davis's book Planet of Slums (Verso, 2007), a huge part of the world's population lives in slums—a symptom of growing inequality and increasing exploitation. It's a trend that's ramping up. information, cooperating in the surveillance of their lives. corporations. , , ; Cards - A World View", posted on the Global Research The worldwide implementation of systems for website on 31 August 2009. For the full text, including population surveillance and monitoring has to be tables and hyperlinks, go to significant. It doesn't sound like it is part of making the http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context= world a kinder, nicer place. vak&aid=14992. much people have willingly cooperated in handing over their personal information, cooperating in the their lives. Endnotes 1. Albrecht, Katherine and Liz McIntyre, Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every purchase and watch your every move with RFID, Nelson Current, 2005, p. 64, "There's a target on your back" 2. Gellman, Barton, "The FBI's Secret Scrutiny: In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans", Washington Post, 11/06/05 Editor's Note: This is an edited version of Nathan Allonby's article "ID Cards - A World View", posted on the Global Research website on 31 August 2009. 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