Spychips
Subtitle: how major corporations and government plan to track your every purchase and watch your every move
By: Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre.
Contributors: McIntyre, Liz.
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Privacy, Right of -- United States.; Radio frequency identification systems.; Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects -- United States.
Other titles: Spy chips
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Tracking everything everywhere : the RFID threat; value: Spychips 101 : the basics of RFID; value: The master plan : how RFID could change your world forever; value: The spy in your shoe : how everyday objects could report on their owners; value: There's a target on your back : how marketers plan to use RFID to manipulate and spy on customers; value: The RFID retail zoo : the future of shopping; value: Bringing it home : how RFID could invade your private spaces; value: Talking trash : how the RFID tags you throw away say as much as the ones you keep; value: Yes, that's your medicine cabinet talking : how your doctor, pharmacy, and hospital plan to use RFID; value: This is a stickup : RFID crimes, should-be crimes, and just plain snooping; value: Downshifting into surveillance mode : tracking people through their travels; value: The chips that won't die : technical fixes to the RFID problem; value: Adapt or die : how RFID backers hope to get you on board; value: Are you next? : numbering, tracking, and controlling humans with RFID; value: Your tax dollars at work : government use of RFID; value: The nightmare scenario : what if Hitler had RFID?; value: Pull the plug! : how you can help win the RFID war; value: Epilogue.