Thread: Google 'will be able to keep tabs on us all'

Alexi Mostrous and Rob Evans
Friday November 3, 2006
The Guardian


The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday.
Nigel Gilbert, a professor heading a Royal Academy of Engineering study into surveillance, said people would be able to sit down and type into Google "what was a particular individual doing at 2.30 yesterday and would get an answer".

The answer would come from a range of data, for instance video recordings or databanks which store readings from electronic chips. Such chips embedded in people's clothes could track their movements. He told a privacy conference the internet would be capable of holding huge amounts of data very cheaply and patterns of information could be extracted very quickly. "Everything can be recorded for ever," he said.

He was speaking at a conference at which a report commissioned by Richard Thomas, the privacy watchdog, was launched. Mr Thomas has said Britain is "waking up to a surveillance society that is all around us" and that such "pervasive" surveillance is likely to spread.

Sir Stephen Lander, the head of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and former head of MI5, defended surveillance by the government.

"Significant intrusion into the privacy of a small minority is justified to protect the safety and wellbeing of the majority," he said.


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Very few people know about the chip embedded clothing thing, let alone the fact that it is already being done by several clothing manufacturers. Six months ago I used to use my debit card for practically all of my purchases. With the exception of buying groceries and paying bills, I now use cash to purchase everything else (ESPECIALLY clothing, shoes, hand bags, ect).

Originally Posted by greyparrot

Very few people know about the chip embedded clothing thing, let alone the fact that it is already being done by several clothing manufacturers. Six months ago I used to use my debit card for practically all of my purchases. With the exception of buying groceries and paying bills, I now use cash to purchase everything else (ESPECIALLY clothing, shoes, hand bags, ect).

What is this?? Chip embedded clothing thing?

http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/ ... hotos.html

Originally Posted by JAK

Originally Posted by greyparrot

Very few people know about the chip embedded clothing thing, let alone the fact that it is already being done by several clothing manufacturers. Six months ago I used to use my debit card for practically all of my purchases. With the exception of buying groceries and paying bills, I now use cash to purchase everything else (ESPECIALLY clothing, shoes, hand bags, ect).

What is this?? Chip embedded clothing thing?

These are the same chips they are putting in the REAL ID.