Liz McIntyre: How Microchip Implants & Google Threaten Our Privacy
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 3 September 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Privacy consultant Liz McIntyre discusses the new trend of biometric human microchip implants by corporations and governments provided to their employees as well as citizens who volunteer for implants. She explains the threats posed by implants as well as the current surveillance malpractices by tech-giants such as Google.
Show Notes
You WILL Get Microchipped Eventually
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About Liz McIntyre
Liz McIntyre is a consumer privacy expert and co-author of a series of books about the societal implications of microchip tracking technology, including Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move. This explosive book reveals how organizations like Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart, Gillette, and even the U.S. Government are deploying tiny computer chips that can keep close tabs on everyday objects—and even people.
McIntyre is the former Communications Director for CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) and the master strategist for many of the organization’s most successful media campaigns. Her eye-catching headlines and compelling stories have helped to make the technical topic of radio frequency identification interesting and accessible to the general public. New York Times reporter Barnaby Feder once commented on McIntyre’s writing, saying, “I don’t usually see such entertaining metaphors outside of the baseball blogs…where I go for escape reading.”
McIntyre now steps in from time to time to offer strategic advice and help create platform documents like the Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Schools.
McIntyre has logged hundreds of hours as a guest expert because of her proven ability to captivate audiences and generate listener calls. She has shared her views on shows like Forbes, Allan Handelman, Thom Hartmann, Greg Allen, CBC Radio, Coast to Coast, BBC Radio, WBAI’s “Law and Disorder,” and Kiss FM’s “Open Line.”
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Liz McIntyre is a consumer privacy expert, co-author with Dr. Catherine Albrecht of the Spy Chips book series, |
| 0:07.9 | and a consultant for my favorite privacy products, the encrypted start mail service based in the Netherlands, |
| 0:14.8 | and it's private search engine startpage.com. |
| 0:17.7 | Thank you for being with us, Ms. McIntyre. |
| 0:23.3 | Well, it's really nice to be with you here, |
| 0:29.9 | Herbouye. Thank you for inviting me. Sure. Now, people used to laugh at the prophecies written down in the Bible's book of revelations concerning some type of mark, which would be required |
| 0:35.0 | for people to buy or sell. With the advent of RFID, biometrics, |
| 0:40.2 | and microchips, coupled with governments and banks that are working toward a digital and cashless |
| 0:45.1 | economy, which Bitcoin may even make possible, fewer people seem to be laughing when this |
| 0:50.7 | subject is brought up. And myself, having lived in numerous countries, I can say |
| 0:55.8 | from personal experience that there is a very thin line between being able to participate |
| 1:00.3 | and function within the national economy and being barred from doing so for bureaucratic reasons. |
| 1:07.0 | Most recently, a Wisconsin company has offered the opportunity for employees to have microchips |
| 1:11.8 | implanted into their hands. |
| 1:13.7 | A sociology professor claims that eventually everybody will be microchip, not this year |
| 1:19.3 | or in 2018, but maybe not in our generation, but certainly that of our kids' generation. |
| 1:26.1 | Let's discuss first what is going on in Wisconsin and then |
| 1:29.2 | the comments made by the professor. Can you fill us in there? Absolutely. Well, there's a company, |
| 1:37.3 | a Wisconsin company called Three Square Market, and they ask their employees to volunteer to be implanted with RFID microchip. |
| 1:47.3 | These are glass-encapsulated microchips that would be embedded in their flesh. |
| 1:52.9 | Now, these devices communicate from a distance, a short distance. |
| 1:57.3 | Okay. |
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