Resisting surveillance: Identity and implantable microchips

Leonardo

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-214

  Nisbet, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 70449787931     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0024094041139463     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Alan Sheridan, trans. (New York; Pantheon, 1977) p. 27 (orig.: Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la prison [Paris: Gallimard, 1975])
2. Elaine M. Ramesh, "Time Enough? Consequences of Human Microchip Implantation,"
3. C.W. Crews, "Human Bar Code Monitoring Bio-metric Technologies in a Free Society," Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 452, 1-20 (17 September 2002)
4. Jeremy Beutham, "Panopticon Papers," in Mary Peter Mack, ed., A Bentham Reader (New York: Pegasus, 1969) pp. 194-208. Bentham's Panopticon is a circular architectural model designed in 1791. The essence of its power is that it allows seeing without being seen
5. J. Scheeres, "New Body Art: Chip Implants," , 11 March 2002
6. An RFID system is composed of three parts: an antenna, a reader (transceiver) and a unique radio frequency microchip (transponder or RF tag). The reader sends a pulse to the antenna that emits radio signals of a specific frequency (134 kHz,in this case) to activate a microchip. Power generated from the transceiver allows the passive microchip to relay its ID information back to the reader and positively identify the object or individual. See
7. J. Wilson, "Girl to Get Tracker Implant to Ease Parents' Fears," 3 September 2002;
8. "Fia. FamilyTakes Computer Chip Trip," 10 May 2002;