{"id":15,"date":"2006-02-21T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-02-21T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T10:14:09","slug":"rfid-is-not-equal-to-proximity-chip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"RFID [is not equal to] proximity chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/01\/28\/nid28.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2006\/01\/28\/ixhome.html\">Mr Burnham said<\/a> the radio technology was being introduced to meet international regulations enabling identity documents to be read by scanners at airports. It was &#8220;nonsense&#8221; to suggest the frequencies could be used to monitor people&#8217;s movements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>This kind of scaremongering is designed to whip up fears about the ID cards scheme. I hope people will see it for what it is.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>George Monbiot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,,1714256,00.html\">doing his best Irdial impersonation<\/a>. But he holds himself back too much. Although this bit is pretty good&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<em>So the police won&#8217;t even have to be there. Someone sitting in a control room could fly a tiny drone (some of them are just a few inches across) equipped with a receiver over the heads of a crowd and, with the help of our new identity cards, determine who&#8217;s there.<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The ID card debate seems to be boring the populus into submission. It, as many other issues, has been transformed into a neo-liberal dinner party discussion and taken as far as possible out of the context of most citizens futures. Nobody I speak to really cares, nobody shows any passion one way or the other. The &#8216;nothing to hide: nothing to fear&#8217; response prevails. Tis the way of the modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Burnham said the radio technology was being introduced to meet international regulations enabling identity documents to be read by scanners at airports. It was &#8220;nonsense&#8221; to suggest the frequencies could be used to monitor people&#8217;s movements. &#8220;This kind of scaremongering is designed to whip up fears about the ID cards scheme. I hope people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}