Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services Tommy Thompson has left the board of
VeriChip Corporation, marketer of glass
encapsulated RFID tags for humans.
"Effective March 8, 2007, Tommy G. Thompson,
an independent member of the Board of Directors
of VeriChip Corporation (the "Company"),
submitted a letter to the Company expressing his
interest in taking a leave of absence from the Board
of Directors in order to devote his full time and
efforts to running for President of the United
States. As a leave of absence would have left
the Company without a full board to address matters
of corporate governance, Mr. Thompson resigned as
a Director effective as of that date ;
http://www.spychips.com/blog/2007/03/tommy_thompson_leaves_board_of.html
Texans Against NATIONAL ID MOVEMENT ;
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/katherine-albrecht-no-national-id.html
Homeland Security Looking at RFID Technology
to Track Individuals
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) is looking for technology that can read
government-issued documents from up to 25 feet
away, pinpoint pedestrians on street corners, and
glean the identity of people whizzing by in cars at
55 miles per hour.
"Radio Frequency IDentification" (RFID), a
controversial technology that uses tiny microchips
to track items from a distance.
DHS seeks "superior remote data capture" that
"offers significant improvements in performance"
over the RFID technology currently being
trialed in its U.S. Visit program border security
initiatives. The RFI indicates this more potent
tracking technology might be used in other
initiatives and by other federal agencies ;
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/02/spychips.html
