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Title: Hospitals tagging babies with electronic chips
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World Net Daily
URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59690
Published: Jan 15, 2008
Author: Jerome Corsi
Post Date: 2008-01-15 07:55:20 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 190
Comments: 11
Privacy advocates protest as half of Ohio birthing centers turn to tracking technology By Jerome R. Corsi © 2008 WorldNetDaily.com Over half the birthing facilities in Ohio are being equipped with an RFID infant protection system placed on infants at birth to prevent them from being abducted from the hospital or from being given to the wrong mother. "Standard protocol in the hospitals using the VeriChip system is that the baby receives an RFID anklet at birth and the mother receives a matching wristband," VeriChip spokeswoman Allison Tomek told WND. "The mothers are not asked." VeriChip Corp., a publicly listed company headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla., is marketing though its wholly-owned subsidiary, Xmark, a HUGS brand tag-and-bracelet infant security system. The RFID tag is attached to an infant at birth by an ankle bracelet that is detected by monitors positioned throughout the hospital. Critics charge the VeriChip system is an intrusive technology solution to a problem that is rare. "The VeriChip infant security system is a technology looking for a solution," said Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. "Baby snatching from hospital facilities is a diaper full of nonsense," Albrecht told WND. She cited a January 2003 report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children concluding that of approximately 4.2 million births per year at 3,500 birthing centers in the U.S., abductions by non-family members are estimated at between zero and 12 per year. Of those, the mother is re-united with the child 95 percent of the time. "Ironically, relying on RFID technology could end up making a rare occurrence more likely," Albrecht said. "Once hospital staffers rely on computer systems to track the human inventory in their care, they become less vigilant." Albrecht is co-author along with Liz McIntyre of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move." The HUGS system can detect if the RFID tag is lifted from the baby's skin, if the ankle strap broken or if the baby's RFID tag and the mother's don't match. If a newborn is removed from the ward without authorization or a baby is placed with the wrong mother, the system triggers an alarm that can cause hospital entrances and exits to lock shut. "The infant abductions that do occur tend to happen in larger, more impersonal hospitals," Albrecht emphasized. "We actually investigated an abduction that involved a baby who was wearing an RFID ankle bracelet at the time of the abduction," Albrecht said. "What happened was a woman dressed up in hospital scrubs. Even though the other staffers in the maternity ward did not recognize this woman, nobody reported her, because they thought the RFID system would take care of any problem." The woman figured out how to turn the RFID system off, Albrecht said, 'and she just walked right out of the hospital carrying the baby, without anybody stopping her." VeriChip objects, claiming its RFID anklet-and-bracelet infant security system has prevented baby abductions. Spokeswoman Tomek, however, declined to cite specific proof, claiming privacy issues and the need to keep hospital security procedures confidential. The VeriChip RFID anklets and bracelets are removed by the birthing facility when the mothers and babies are released. HUGS system RFID anklets and bracelets are not equipped with GPS technology. VeriChip also produces a human implantable RFID chip that is marketed in the health care area for chronic diseases, including diabetes or stroke, or memory impairment illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease. "The only viable part of the VeriChip market right now is this infant security system," Albrecht told WND. "People in the United States don't want the human implantable RFID chips VeriChip thought was going to be the core of their business." Albrecht said VeriChip hopes eventually there will be a mandatory program such as the UK has for implanting RFID chips in prisoners." The VeriChip human implantable RFID chip was cleared for medical use in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration in October 2004. VeriChip currently has a market capitalization of about $20 million and 2006 sales of more than $27 million. VeriChip stock closed yesterday at $2.02 a share.
Poster Comment: VeriChip stock closed yesterday at $2.02 a share. Yeah, there'll be 300 million stock holders in America someday.
Posted: January 15, 2008 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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#1. To: noone222 (#0)
We are the Borg.
A liberal would rather see a woman raped and strangled with her own pantyhouse than defend herself with a handgun.
Ohio gubmint is rotten from top to bottom.
Live free or die.
Psalms Chapter 2 1 Why do the nations protest and the peoples grumble in vain? 2 Kings on earth rise up and princes plot together against the LORD and his anointed: 3 "Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains!"
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The woman figured out how to turn the RFID system off, Albrecht said, 'and she just walked right out of the hospital carrying the baby, without anybody stopping her." Sounds like the system doesn't work. A bunch of cost for nothing. And people wonder why health care is going up.
Is that the trailer park Borg? As in "Y'alls fixin' ta be 'similated"?
Government blows and that which governs least blows least...
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
1 Why do the nations protest and the peoples grumble in vain? 2 Kings on earth rise up and princes plot together against the LORD and his anointed: 3 "Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains!" Amen ... to that !
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
A removeable bracelet at the choice of the parent is one thing ... Taking DNA or doing anything without permission should never be tolerated.
"Give us liberty and give them death" ... noone222 1-10-08
As long as it stays as a bracelet only, I see nothing wrong with this. I wouldn't want someone stealing my kid out of the Hospital.
God is always good!
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#3. To: noone222 (#0)
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#4. To: noone222 (#0)
"Ironically, relying on RFID technology could end up making a rare occurrence more likely," Albrecht said. "Once hospital staffers rely on computer systems to track the human inventory in their care, they become less vigilant."
The Revolution will not be televised!
#5. To: noone222, *libertarians* (#0)
"We actually investigated an abduction that involved a baby who was wearing an RFID ankle bracelet at the time of the abduction," Albrecht said. "What happened was a woman dressed up in hospital scrubs. Even though the other staffers in the maternity ward did not recognize this woman, nobody reported her, because they thought the RFID system would take care of any problem."
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#6. To: YertleTurtle (#1)
We are the Borg.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
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#8. To: noone222 (#0)
#9. To: Artisan (#3)
Psalms Chapter 2
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