Electronic “Tagging” of Air Travelers Set For Trial in Hungary
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.13.06 | 7:17 AM ET
First came the news that passports will soon be embedded with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips. Now comes word about “Optag,” an experimental tagging project at University College London that will assign RFID chips to all passengers at Hungary’s Debrecen Airport. “The basic idea is that airports could be fitted with a network of combined panoramic cameras and RFID (radio frequency ID) tag readers, which would monitor the movements of people around the various terminal buildings,” Project leader Paul Brennan told the BBC. He says tagging passengers would aid airport security. Needless to say, privacy issues are also a concern. If the tests are successful in Hungary, Brennan says the technology could be deployed in airports elsewhere in the world “within two years.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.
mike 10.15.06 | 7:51 AM ET
Wake up people. Your rights are being flushed down the toilet, and you do not even care. How many planes have been high-jacked and flown into buildings? Two!! And now, the “Global Leaders” want to track and monitor Millions of people? That makes no sense. So, be a little syndical and ask yourself, “What DOES the government really want?”
The answer: your freedom. Your subjugation. Your money. Your labor.
The number one killer of people is not disease. Not cancer. It is GOVERNMENT.
Read “1984” by George Orwell, you owe it to yourself and to your descendents.
Megalomaniacs are running the UN, so lets close it down. :|