{"id":88,"date":"2005-07-15T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/07\/15\/privacy-route-666\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T13:31:11","slug":"privacy-route-666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/07\/15\/privacy-route-666\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Route 666"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a802'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strange bedfellows: <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/privacy\/0,1848,68133,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4\">a religious privacy advocate is speaking against RFIDs<\/a><br \/>\nbecause she &#8220;believe[s] that RFID tags &#8212; tiny chips that emit serial<br \/>\nnumbers &#8212; are<br \/>\nthe Mark of the Beast. Many of those Christians believe humans one day<br \/>\nwill be compelled to bear a mark on their heads or wrists, to engage in<br \/>\nthe buying and selling of goods.&#8221;&nbsp; Perhaps the Christian Right<br \/>\nwill be sufficient to ensure that the talk of National ID cards or<br \/>\nPassports embedded with RFIDs never become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>This talk of the mark of the beast, also reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/paybytouch.com\/\">the new tenants<\/a> <span style=\"rgb(153, 0, 0);\">[fixed the link] <\/span>in my office building, who have drastically retarded the speed of our<br \/>\nshared elevator bank.&nbsp;&nbsp; Their product allows one to pay using<br \/>\nfinger-print recognition technology.&nbsp; They incorporate similar<br \/>\ntechnology into their entry system; instead of magnetic passcards,<br \/>\ntheir employees use fingerprint touchpads for entry.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Perhaps I should go with my dentist&#8217;s hardsell on cosmetic<br \/>\ndentistry (in my case veneers for my front teeth) and try my hand at<br \/>\nTV news reporting.&nbsp; I think that I have the voice for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange bedfellows: a religious privacy advocate is speaking against RFIDs because she &#8220;believe[s] that RFID tags &#8212; tiny chips that emit serial numbers &#8212; are the Mark of the Beast. Many of those Christians believe humans one day will be compelled to bear a mark on their heads or wrists, to engage in the buying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}