And what size chip do you take?

[truthsupplier]

No thank you, just the fish please...

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ORBCOMM Announces Application Development Agreement with VeriChip Corporation
Companies Will Jointly Develop and Market Innovative Military, Security and Healthcare Applications for VeriChip

BUSINESS WIRE

December 15, 2004 12:44 PM US Eastern Timezone


FORT LEE, N.J. -- ORBCOMM, a global satellite telecommunications
company, today announced that it has executed an agreement with
VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital
(NASDAQ:ADSX), to be its provider of satellite and telecommunication
services for applications to be developed for use with the world's
first implantable radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip,
also called VeriChip(TM).

Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will also work
together to develop and market new military, security, and
healthcare applications for use in the United States and around the
world.

VeriChip Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied
Digital. The VeriChip product is a subdermal RFID microtransponder
that can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency
identification and healthcare applications. About the size of a
grain of rice, each VeriChip Device contains a unique
verification number that is captured by briefly passing a proprietary
scanner over the VeriChip. In October 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) cleared VeriChip for medical applications in
the United States. VeriChip is not a FDA-regulated device with
regards to its security, financial, personal
identification/safety applications.

"ORBCOMM's relationship with VeriChip(TM) provides yet another
new and important industry that will use the ORBCOMM satellite
system and its ground infrastructure network to transmit messages
globally," Jerry Eisenberg, CEO of ORBCOMM, said.

About ORBCOMM

ORBCOMM is a wireless telecommunications company that provides
reliable, cost effective data communications services to
customers around the world through its unique low-earth orbit (LEO)
satellite network and global ground infrastructure. A diverse
customer base, including industry leaders General Electric,
Caterpillar Inc., Volvo Trucks, XATA, and AirIQ, uses ORBCOMM services to
track, monitor and control mobile and fixed assets including
trucks, containers, marine vessels, locomotives, heavy machinery,
pipelines, oil wells, utility meters and storage tanks anywhere
in the world. For more information call 1-800-ORBCOMM or visit
its Web site at www.ORBCOMM.com .

[truthsupplier]

Imagine a world where you have microchips implanted under your skin,and employers track your every move. It sounds like a movie, but its close enough to reality that one Oklahoma Senator thinks we need protection from it.

The News on 6’s Steve Berg reports the lawmaker has a bill that would prevent companies from making chips a requirement to work there.

State Senator Brian Crain says he first heard about Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, from a worried constituent.

I'll be honest with you,my first thought was that this is some kind of conspiracy theory, and I was not interested in it, he said.

But Crain says the more he learned about it, the more interested he became,and the more concerned. The microchip is tiny, about the size of a grain of rice, its inserted under the skin & contains a 16-digit number that can be read with a scanner. Implantable microchips started as a way to identify lost animals.


Its most common use in people is to connect to a persons medical information when there hurt or unconscious. The chips have also been used to keep track of Alzheimers patients or newborn infants.

But what caught Crains eye is on the website for Verichip,the company that makes the chips, where it markets the chip as a tool for company security.

My concern when you look at it is that this can also be expanded into large corporations who, for security purposes,want to track people who go through their building, or for employment payroll purposes, want to track when a person is at their desk and when they are not.

So far, Crain says theres been no incidence in the US where a company has required its workers to have a chip implanted. But he says there have been examples in other countries & Crain doesnt think its too far-fetched to see where a company here might pressure its
workers to "chip in".

I think we've got some really good technology here, he said. Unfortunately it runs the risk that it could become a big brother approach.

Sen Crain says if people want to volunteer for this kind of thing, more power to them. He says he will not try to stand in their way. As of now, the chips dont have any kind of GPS support, so they cant track people if theres not a receiver nearby.The receivers have a range between one and 100-feet, depending on the type of chip.

http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=120211

[truthsupplier]

http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/29815/PREPARE_TO_BE_MICROCHIPPED/

[berob24]

http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/co....aspx?ID=95220

"unusually high volume" hmmmmm

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...20&newsLang=en

I had this posted in the Swine Flu thread, but it seems more appropriate here.

[wakeup2nwo]

I dont know if this has already been posted, sorry if it has!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107588

WND Exclusive

LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER

Next step in H1N1 scare: Microchip implants
Company developing under-the-skin devices to detect 'bio-threats'
Posted: August 22, 2009
11:50 pm Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


VeriChip's microchip implant, about the size of a grain of rice

A Florida-based company that boasts selling the world's first and only federally approved radio microchip for implanting in humans is now turning its development branch toward "emergency preparedness," hoping to produce an implant that can automatically detect in its host's bloodstream the presence of swine flu or other viruses deemed a "bio-threat."

VeriChip Corporation currently sells a small, under-the-skin Radio Frequency Identification capsule, or RFID, that patients can opt to have implanted, containing a number computer-linked to their medical records, enabling doctors with a special reader to access the information even if the patient is unconscious or unidentified. The company boasts its microchip, roughly the size of a grain of rice, is the only such implant approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

But VeriChip has also turned its attention to other uses for the technology, including microchips that be used to tag and log human remains after a disaster and implants the company hopes will be able to warn if their host is infected with the H1N1 swine flu virus, the H5N1 bird flu virus or other pandemic agents deemed to be a "bio-threat."

VeriChip is working with a Minnesota company, Receptors LLC, to develop the virus-detection technology.

"As we continue to build on our partnership with Receptors, which started with the development of a glucose-sensing RFID implantable microchip, we are moving beyond patient identification to sensors that can detect and identify illnesses and viruses such as influenza," said Scott R. Silverman, chairman of VeriChip, in a statement. "This is an exciting next step for the future of our healthcare division."

(Story continues below)




According to a joint white paper released earlier this year by both companies called "An Integrated Sensor System for the Detection of Bio-Threats from Pandemics to Emerging Diseases to Bio-Terrorism," the research's goal is to transform existing glucose-detection technology into pinpointing viruses instead, then couple it with an "in vivo" – meaning implanted inside a living organism – microchip that can alert others of the virus' presence.

The ultimate goal is to develop an implant that can also diagnose which virus is infecting the host.

VeriChip has also announced earlier this month additional forays into emergency preparedness through its VeriTrace system.

According to a statement, the company sold a VeriTrace system, including 1,000 RFID microchips, to Kentucky's Green River District Health Department "for disaster preparedness and emergency management needs."

The company explains that VeriTrace, a separate system from its virus detection or patient records technology, was created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, where it was used by the Federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team. The system includes the microchips, a Bluetooth handheld reader, a customized camera that receives both RFID scanned data and GPS data wirelessly and a web-based database for storing information and images captured during emergency response operations.

The microchips are implanted in human remains following a disaster or, according to one report from the Katrina catastrophe, duct-taped to bones, in order to maintain detailed records, particularly in events that result in hundreds or thousands of fatalities.

"This database ensures the precise collection, storage and inventory of all data and images related to remains and the associated evidentiary items," the statement boasts. "This also allows the recreation of an accurate and complete reconstruction of a disaster setting, crime scene or similar setting where recreation is necessary."

Since Hurricane Katrina, the RFID Journal reports, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Hawaii Department of Health, the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System and the medical examiner's office in the Department of Heath in Erie County, N.Y, have also purchased the system. Earlier this year, VeriChip announced sales to Maryland's Calvert Memorial Hospital and to Mercer and Atlantic counties in New Jersey.

WND contacted VeriChip seeking information on its progress in developing the virus detection technology and other emergency preparedness microchip implants, but received no response.

[berob24]

There was a post yesterday titled "What size is your chip?" or something to that effect. I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this. When I read about Verichip's stock rising so quickly, it really made me think "this is really happening". I mean, I'm fairly new to "all of this" and have been listening to a ton of information, but to see stock numbers actually increasing.... to me it was hard-core evidence.

[wakeup2nwo]

There was a post yesterday titled "What size is your chip?" or something to that effect. I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this. When I read about Verichip's stock rising so quickly, it really made me think "this is really happening". I mean, I'm fairly new to "all of this" and have been listening to a ton of information, but to see stock numbers actually increasing.... to me it was hard-core evidence.

i know what you mean! its the first time ide read it and i was gob smacked :eek:
ive been looking at news articles about RFID chips and its clear as day that one day we will all need one of these chips to get a gob, get paid, or pay bills.. without it we are underground, literally... im prepared to go underground because there's no way in hell im ever getting one of these control chips

this is an interesting read.
i think there gonna make employers to get there workers chipped and advertise for chipped applicants only

Wanted: Power-systems engineer with experience in high-power (5–100-kW) motor-­controller design. Must be U.S. citizen and have valid ISO1443-compatible access-control RFID implant.

Sound farfetched? Today, yes. A decade from now, maybe not.

With the proliferation of radio-frequency identification technology and the recent, but increasing, use of implantable RFID chips in humans, we may already be on a path that would make such an ad commonplace

read more here

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/rfid-inside

[berob24]

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=831&highlight=verichip

here's the link to yesterday's thread, if you haven't seen it.

[gilly]

I've merged the two threads. :)