Why is NATO stalking our schoolchildren?

[JohnyCanuck]

Why is NATO stalking our schoolchildren?
By Tony Gosling

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The UK government made iris scans, facial recognition, fingerprinting and palm printing, known collectively as 'biometrics' of schoolchildren subject to parental consent in September 2013, with the Protection of Freedoms Act. Schools that want to automate entry, dinner and library systems, rather than punishing children who refuse to participate as they used to do, are now finding more and more pupils are opting out.

Unfortunately though, RFID is set to take over where biometrics left off. From 2010 to February 2013, West Cheshire College near Liverpool gave all their students tags to wear with '433MHz compatible' chips. These tags not only enabled students to use facilities as they were told but, with sensors around the school, let teaching staff and others track students around the campus as moving blobs on a video screen.

After a journalist called the school to inquire about the school policy of using RFID chips to track students, the chips were taken away from the students that same day, according to the author. They were later reused on a different project not involving human tracking. The author is evidently troubled that the chips the schoolchildren were given were compatible with a NATO RFID tracking system known as the 'In Transit Visibility Network' used to track NATO's supplies, shipments and vehicles etc. as they are moved around and relocated within Europe and the USA. Theoretically the students could have been tracked by NATO's sensors whenever they came within range.

Despite the provocative headline, the author doesn't claim in the article that there is any hard evidence NATO was actively using these British students as guinea pigs to test whether they could be effectively monitored along with legitimate objects like NATO's tanks, APCs, munitions, trucks etc. However, he evidently believes that as corporations and governments increasingly work closely together to monitor and use the latest available technology to snoop on the public and limit the freedoms that inhabitants of Western Europe and North America have traditionally taken for granted, there is a real danger that if steps are not immediately taken to apply some very stringent rules on using RFID tracking on humans, we could all find ourselves living in a "digital cage" without being aware of it until the cage door is snapped shut.

Gosling concludes:

Without asking a single judge, jury, politician or talk show host, NATO and their Military Industrial technocratic friends are turning every single human being they are supposed to be protecting into a criminal suspect. Rather than a digital revolution their vision is for a digital cage. Never have the diseased nightmares of tyrants been so close to being realized as on their watch.

The civilized world must now nail both vehicle computers and this RFID technology, make it subject to individual and parental consent, as Britain did with biometrics. And we'd better act fast before our schools and our streets become digital prisons and our children are voyeuristically followed everywhere they go, by the military.

http://rt.com/op-edge/nato-europe-hacking-digital-devices-376/

While some will no doubt see this oped and scoff that the author is just another paranoid conspiracy theorists who sees the NWO monster lurking around the corner just waiting to pounce and gobble him up for dinner, as I read the latest news reports and see the developments that are occurring in the high tech industries, I believe the author is quite justified in his concerns. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

[yodermon]

1. my god, it sounds like the beginning of a Dr. Who episode!

[randome]

2. He IS paranoid. And leaps to too many conclusions.

Without the unneeded hyperbole, better laws and rules regulating RFID chips are needed.

It's too bad his ravings of 'NATO is evil!' will hide the more important message.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[SidDithers]

4. Well, it is RT...nt

Sid

[hobbit709]

3. funny thing about those tinfoil hats.

At the frequencies they're supposed to block, they work as amplifiers.