October 04, 2006
Spychips Author Makes Clarification On RFID Stance
Dr. Katherine Albrecht, co-author of Spychips and founder/ director of CASPIAN, weighed in last week with a comment on an article from this site from earlier this year: RFID vs Christian Right? Her comment, which just came to my attention, clarifies her actual viewpoint about RFID, and that she's never actually equated RFID in its present form with "the mark of the beast", despite what some writers suggest. She says in her comment
... that modern databases and communications technologies, coupled with POS data-capture equipment and sophisticated ID and authentication systms make it theoretically possible to require a biometrically associated number or mark to make purchases.
She also points out the signficance of such a payment system to Christians, "who have been mandated by their faith not to participate in such payment systems." This is much different than her being attributed to calling RFID "the mark of the beast." She also points out the inherent right that anyone of any faith should have regarding privacy. See the orginal VoIP Now article, which misquotes her, for Dr. Albrecht's full commentary.
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