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Big Brother's Pizza Delivery
Dusty Rhodes writes: "Lexis/Nexis, providers of massive database information services mostly to media, legal and law enforcement organizations, is hyping their new database service, BatchTrace, to track fugitives and deadbeats.
In addition to cataloging common info such as census records, driver's license records, etc., this database includes pizza delivery records, tech support call records and grocery store discount card records.
Who knew you'd need an alias to order a pizza? Pretty funny/sad stuff in the Land of the Free. What's next, a national pizza delivery ID, complete with thumbprint and DNA sample?
Thanks to Britt Sandusky for pointing us to this story."
. . . sorry, Mr. Smith, no pizza for you this evening; the credit card charge has been diverted to the State for your back child support payments.
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Really, I have nothing to hide. However, I think that we should be able to get a copy of our own report, just like a credit report. That'd help ensure some accountability.
-Brent
Is there some way you could unlist yourself. Since you can unlist yourself from the Telephone book and other non-gov lists I'm guessing they have have no legal right to list you after you ask to be unlisted?
Carpe meam simiam!
I read your post and I saw god.
When "Big Brother" and "Pizza Delivery" come together, normally some sort of obligatory reference to Snow Crash is required.
But in this case, there's actually something interesting to be questioned. The subject article comes from the credit history angle, for purposes like trying to locate deadbeats. But take the more sinister view and add "financial profiling." How about checking takeout orders, but instead of looking for pizza look for Halaal food? Of course only sleeper-cells would order take-out Halaal. (for Halaal, think Kosher, only for Muslims)
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
The dangerous escaped convict, Codexus, was arrested after he made the mistake of ordering his usual Sushi, Banana, Oignon, Extra-Cheese pizza. He was the only person in the BatchTrace database to have ever ordered that kind of pizza and the system was able to immediately alert the police.
True warriors use the Klingon Google
People give me an odd look when I tell them that I live a mostly cash-only lifestyle. Each paycheck I withdraw all but the small amount which goes on a credit card. No before you call me a hypocrite, I use the CC for transactions that are already recorded, no matter how I pay (savings bonds purchases, paying bills, etc.).
However, I always use cash for gassing up the car, for normal retail purchases (food, hardware supplies, elecetronics/software, etc.). For mail order and some bills I use USPS money orders. At least with money orders, my bank doesn't know I paid $55 for last month's water bill even if the water company does. That's just one less piece of information some company can exploit.
It's getting bad out there. I was alarmed when I bought a DVD player at Wal Mart and they entered the serial # into the register!
It's revelations like this story that make me glad I tolerate the odd looks for my perceived "odd" behavior. Some day, one of you discount card users is gonna get a notice from your health insurance about a premium increase because they know that you buy a gallon of Rocky Road icecream every week. Trust me -- it will happen some day!
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Did anyone happen to read the Bill of Rights before they came up with this one?
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Unfortunately, the BoR only applies to the federal government. Since this is a public company collecting the information, there is no guarantee against it due to the BoR. Hopefully, it can be made illegal on the grounds of invasion of privacy, but it would have to be challenged.
IANAL
Do not confuse duty with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different.Duty is a debt you owe to yourself.
How does this database cause unreasonable searches and seizures? OK, so someone knows that I eat Papa Johns 3 times a week. Fine, I'd still expect that they'd need a warrant to come in and seize the empty pizza boxes.
Here's how it works. I order a pizza, and Papa Johns makes a record of my order. They sell it to Nexis-Dexis, and someone looks it up. Am I less secure? Did someone search my house? Was something seized without an oath? No, no, and no.
So this really has nothing to do with the Bill Of Rights. It's merely a data mining program.
-Brent"... and grocery store discount card records."
I stopped going to Safeway, since they use discount cards rather than just giving customers the price at which they want to sell without expecting to track them.
(Discount cards do NOT provide discounts. The grocery store always sells at the price they want to sell. They merely increase the price so that people will get cards, and can then be tracked, especially if they ever use a credit or debit card in connection with a purchase.)
I've started shopping at WinCo Foods instead. They have much lower prices, and they don't do sneaky things. WinCo Foods stores are located in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada.
Did Safeway think that there would be no cost for them in tracking the customer?
I've noticed that abusive companies eventually disappear, or almost disappear. At one time IBM had 90% of the PC market, but they tried to trap customers with a proprietary bus system. At one time Novell had 85% of the PC network market, but they didn't care that their software had a lot of quirks. At one time PC Magazine was a large bi-weekly magazine, but they seemed to favor some companies in their test results. If you believe these examples are representative, then you may begin to think that eventually Microsoft will be a small software company.
ASDA, which is owned by Walmart, is one of the UK chains that have abandoned loyalty card schemes, saying customers prefer low prices to gimmicks.
I don't think the sort of data collection and matching mentioned in the head article would be legal in the EU. The US needs Data Protection laws!
P.S.:
Anyone who doesn't know that Microsoft is abusive should read this article that I wrote about Windows XP problems: Windows XP shows the Direction Microsoft is Going. Click Reload if you have visited the article before, because it has recently been re-written with added material.
Department of Homland security = Gestapo II
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Great! Any information as to what steered them in that direction?
Oh, and the US does have a "data protection" law. It is called the DMCA. There is also another one coming out called the CBDTPA. In my country no one cares about the citizen's rights. :-(
BTW (in case someone doesn't get it) I know what was meant by data protection laws--I was being sarcastic...
It is possible to design a system that will allow secure and anonymous electronic cash transactions. It is certainly easier to not make the transactions anonymous, but it can be done. Generally the people who are paying for systems to be implemented do not have privacy within the system as a goal. They want this information. They also don't want it to get out. Of course a search warrant solves that little moral quandry...
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Brazil has had its own strangeness. I was living there when they switched from the Cruzeiro Real to the Real. They didn't correctly anticipate the number of coins that would have to be minted. For six months you couldn't get the 5 cents change from your 45 cent bus fare. You got a "5 cent coupon" instead. So basically the bus fare was 50 cents with your tenth ride free!
ps For being a privacy nut you just told us all where you live. Smith's and Albertson's aren't exactly nationwide chains. :)
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Isn't census data supposed to be confidential?
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -B
No loyalty tags, no cameras. Just fresh food in exchange for cash.
Because, quite simply sir they know you bought this food at the grocery store at exactly 10:42 pm and they know that you filled up with gas at exactly 11:33 and they know that a woman was killed in that general vicinity at about 11pm and they know that it only takes 10 min to get from the grocery store to the bank. So, sir, how do you account for those extra 30 min? Oh, just taking a smoke? I see.....well, your records show that you didn't buy any smokes and they also show that for the past 6 months it's ALWAYS only taken you 11 min to go from the grocery store to the bank. So, once again what were you doing for that 30 min?
Who cares about the actual murderer who just got in the area, so they haven't been able to track. You are now a suspect because you're the only one who has unaccounted time (well, unaccounted in their database at least) that they know of. Once the database becomes ubiquitious, the smoking gun becomes what they see in the database.
BI-LO got sued for selling their database to an insurance company. No shite. "steaks... beer... cigarettes...Raise his rates!!!"
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Yes, but what does this have to do with the Bill Of Rights. Does being a suspect due to a db entry mean that the warrant is unnecessary?
This thread is about whether this violates the Bill Of Rights article that guarantees you protection from search and siezure in your own house. I say that this doesn't violate the Bill of Rights. You still have to have a warrant to search your property, and make an arrest, even if the lead came from a database, right?
-BrentIt's OK, stick to your cash, but you can help us befuddle the databases by starting your own card swapping club.
Go ahead and register for your discount card, but never use it. Trade with someone else. Trade again. Get a bunch of friends together, throw all of your cards in a pile, stir them up and then pull out the same type and number of cards that you threw in. When you meet someone else that has cards like yours, swap again.
Obviously this doesn't work for credit cards or anything that has your name on it.
Keep paying with cash.
So far I have swapped Safeway, Albertson's, Tom Thumb, and Brookshires with people from all over the country, as far apart as Alaska, California, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. The last swap was in Alaska and I have no idea who's card I gave, nor who's I have.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
Great! Any information as to what steered them in that direction?
A quick furtle about the BBC site finds this article about Safeway UK following ASDA's lead and quotes ASDA as saying only a tiny percentage of their surveyed customers wanted one. Personally, I do have a another chain's loyalty card but only because they offered Air Miles on it.
Certainly supermarkets here don't do the dual pricing with-card discounted vs without-card more expensive thing I've seen in the US. Maybe our consumer protection laws would deem that misleading. Instead the usual way to get a discount is that when you've accrued a certain number of points you get a voucher with a nominal monetary value that you can offset against your next purchase.
True, this is a very interesting conundrum.
Well, let's look at the intent of the Bill of Rights. It specifically says "papers" -- how many things do you do on the computer that you (or your great-great grandfather back in 1776) did on paper? A lot. Virtually all the relevant tracking info that is done on the computer and put into a database now used to be done solely on paper.
It all comes down to a matter of personal opinion. You focus on the intent that this is supposed to be in your home. In that respect, there's not much I can say. I think the government should have to get a warrant to grab my credit card purchases and my grocery buying habits and who I've called and where I've surfed. To me, that's private stuff. I focus on the intent that the government should not be able to grab data that's personal to you (that really, only you should know. There's no real excuse for anyone knowing you got gas at exactly 11:42 pm). I think they codified this in the Bill of Rights in at what was the time an elegant matter -- all your personal stuff was kept in your house and to get it they needed a warrant. All the really relevant stuff like birth records and where you live is public. Now-a-days more and more of that stuff that was previously only personal and only kept in your house is now online. I belive the intent of the Bill of Rights covers this. It's a very muddy issue -- my deal is that they really have no good reason at all to keep this info. They didn't need to in the past and now just because they can doesn't give them the right to. Give me a true, clear-cut need (not want, but need) for having this data then I'll let them have it. Until then, I believe the Bill of Rights was meant to prevent harvesting data.
In short, my belief is that the Bill of Rights was a statement against the government being able to harvest any data about you that is not widely publicly known (dob, place of residence, etc) unless they have probable cause (aka a search warrant).
I've known Lexis-Nexis mostly as a periodical and newspaper search engine (and a gigantic one, at that). Now that they're collecting personal information, don't they have to obey the same laws that (supposedly) outlaw such things as spam and unwanted telemarketing? In other words, don't they have to allow us some means to purge all our personal data from their databases? I was under the impression that this was a federal law, but IANAL.
-Steve
Even with this database, or even "a national pizza delivery ID, complete with thumbprint and DNA sample", they'll still fsck up the toppings!
Ali
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Which pizza company would be stupid enough to release their customer data to L/N? I can imagine it, now:
"Okay, so Pizza Hut earns $5000 a day in Market X, while they only earn $100 in Market Y. Great info! Now I know where to open my store - Market Y will kill me, while Market X is full of money!
At least, that's the kind of information that *our* store placement folk would live to have - if we could figure out where their most lucrative markets were from their own data, we wouldn't have to spend so much time doing research as we do . . .
Every point in the article has been verified by Microsoft employees or has been backed up with links to news sites.
LOL. Trash that database!
Are you saying that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission did not cite Microsoft for lying to customers about Passport? (See FTC Case Against Microsoft.
I forgot to say earlier that if you have found an error in the article about Microsoft, referenced above, I will fix it.
Did you happen to read the Fourth Amendment before you posted it?
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
Pizza three times a week? That's a pretty unhealthy lifestyle. I bet your insurance agent would like to know about that. And why should we blow any social security money on you? When you get your heart attack, your insurance agent is gonna point out your ultra-unhealthy diet and drop you like a stone, and you'll expect the govt to pick up the tab. Well, expect some clauses in SS to be put in eventually since there isn't gonna be enough money to go around. Choosing people based on lifestyles is as good as any for a selection process.
Who's gonna pay gfor your heart surgery?
That's what I do. Many stores allow you to punch in a phone number instead of swiping your card. I started a card with Safeway and will soon start one for Albertson's and give the phone number to everyone, informing them that if we all share the card, it prevents individual tracking.
The card number I use (and I encourage everyone else to use it, too) is: 510-843-7226 - that's 510 (my area code, feel free to use it or start one in your own area code - my thinking is more people on a given card is better, no matter what the area code) THE-SCAM. Don't use anyone's real name or address - you lose out a little on coupons mailed to card members, but it's a small price to pay for privacy.
One of these days, I've been meaning to put together a website promoting community 'rewards' cards. If anyone gets to it before I do, let me know, I'll gladly post numbers for any store where I get the chance to start one.
Russ
Information doesn't want to be anthropomorphized anymore.
You are now a suspect because you're the only one who has unaccounted time
Thus says the ticktock man. . . .
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Even if you have to pay higher health insurance premiums because your lifestyle is less healthy, so what? The point of insurance is to manage risks that are, as much as possible, outside of your control. People who choose to live in Florida have to pay more to be insured against hurricanes than people who live in Oregon. What's the big deal if people who choose to live less healthfully have to pay higher health insurance premiums?
Hopefully, it can be made illegal on the groudns of invasion of privacy, but it would have to be challenged.
What are you talking about? Invasion of privacy refers to publication of embarrassing private facts of no legitimate newsworthiness. This is a service to let you find someone's address, which doesn't even remotely fit the bill.
I think the government should have to get a warrant to grab my credit card purchases and my grocery buying habits and who I've called and where I've surfed. To me, that's private stuff.
I think you just have to live with the fact that people you do business with can keep a record of that business. Of course, your credit card company and grocer have the right to refuse to provide information to the government, but they have no obligation to refuse.
(that really, only you should know. There's no real excuse for anyone knowing that you got gas at exactly 11:42 pm).
So if someone sells you gas, they have no excuse for knowing when they did so?!
In short, my belief is that the Bill of Rights was a statement against the government being able to harvest any data about you that is not widely publicly known (dob, place of residence, etc) unless they have probable cause (aka a search warrant).
That's absurd. Virtually any sort of police investigation involves harvesting information that isn't publicly known without a warrant. The police don't need a warrant to ask a pizza delivery guy if he saw a certain person when he delivered pizza to a certain apartment yesterday, so why should they need a warrant to get information from Lexis/Nexis that Lexis/Nexis obtained from pizza delivery companies?
The government violates the Bill of Rights in a variety of ways, but this is not one of them.
When I saw the headline I thought that they finaly decided to implement my idea of useing the police to deliver pizzas. ;)
If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up you stupid prick.
I can see definitely that some parts of the article need to be re-written. However, nothing you have said convinces me that there is a technical error.
Is it possible that you were not reading the latest version? Did you reload your browser?
The registry has the problems that I mentioned. We are not talking about problems you had. We are talking about problems that I have had and that are commonly known. It is very easy to back up the registry. It is impossible under some conditions to make use of a backup. Those conditions are explained in the article.
You said, "I've never run into that ALT+TAB bug either." A reader sent me an explanation of how it works. The problem only occurs after you have more than 21 programs running at the same time. After that, it starts acting oddly, to say the least.
I can't answer more fully now, but I will have a careful look at everything you said.
The article references a Microsoft article that discusses backup limitations. They say that disk cloning is "not supported" under some conditions. I agree with that. The problems have nothing to do with the SID.
No, the point of insurance is to make money for the insurance companies. They define what insurance is, and regularly change those definitions, if you pay attention to the mailings sent to you.
Insurance companies are taking fewer risks themselves. Pretty soon, if that point hasn't been reached already, owning an insurance policy will be worth less than a savings account set aside containing the money that would have gone to an insurance company.In other words, insurance companies operating in a zero risk environment.
At which point insurance companies will have ceased being a beneficial aspect of society. Programs like this pizza thing, and deals with the supermarket saver cards, just bring us closer this end.
No, the point of insurance is to make money for the insurance companies.
Well, it's obviously true that that's the purpose of it for insurance companies. I was referring to the purpose of it for policy holders.
They define what insurance is, and regularly change those definitions, if you pay attention to the mailings sent to you.
Insurance companies are taking fewer risks themselves. Pretty soon, if that point hasn't been reached already, owning an insurance policy will be worth less than a savings account set aside containing the money that would have gone to an insurance company.In other words, insurance companies operating in a zero risk environment.
Of course, it has always been the case that, on average, you're better off saving the money, because otherwise insurance companies would go bankrupt. The point is that I'd rather lose a little money if my house doesn't burn down than lose a lot of money if it does. Whether a policy is worth more or less than a savings account is a subjective judgment based on one's individual risk-aversion.
At which point insurance companies will have ceased being a beneficial aspect of society.
If, indeed, people decide that their policies are worth less than savings accounts, insurance companies will cease being beneficial to society. However, they will also go out of business, because they will have no customers. Thus, they presumably will make sure that their policies remain useful.
Programs like this pizza thing, and deals with the supermarket saver cards, just bring us closer this end.
No, they don't. In our example, although purchase tracking makes health insurance more expensive to the guy who eats pizza all the time, it makes it cheaper for the rest of us. I see no problem with making people pay for the consequences of their actions. A far more interesting issue, where your points about insurance being worth less would actually apply, is what would happen if we were able to genetically screen for cancer or something, but that's not related to purchase tracking.
TOP SECRET FACT:Most modern cars have tracking transponder!
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A secret initiative exists to track all funnel-points on interstates and US borders for car tire ID transponders (RFid chips embedded in the tire).
Yup. My brother works on them.
Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0) . A particular frequency energizes it enough so that a receiver can read its little ROM. A ROM which in essence is your GUID for your TIRE. Multiple tires do not confuse the readers. Its almost identical to all "FastPass" "SpeedPass" technologies you see on gasoline keychain dongles and commuter windshield sticker-chips. The US gov has secretly started using these chips to track people.
Its kind of like FBI "Taggants" in fertilizer and "Taggants" in Gasoline and Bullets, and Blackpowder. But these car tire transponder Ids are meant to actively track and trace movement of your car.
I am not making this up. Melt down a high end Firestone, or Bridgestone tire and go through the bits near the rim (sometimes at base of tread) and you will locate the transmitter (similar to 'grain of rice' pet ids and Mobile SpeedPass, but not as high tech as the tollbooth based units). Sokymat LOGI 160, and Sokymat LOGI 120 transponder buttons are just SOME of the transponders found in modern high end car tires. The AIAG B-11 Tire tracking standard is now implemented for all 3rd party transponder manufactures [covered below].
It is for QA and to prevent fraud and "car theft", but the US Customs service uses it in Canada to detect people who swap license plates on cars when doing a transport of contraband on a mule vehicle that normally has not logged enough hours across the border. The customs service and FBI do not yet talk about this, and are starting using it soon.
Photos of chips before molded into tires:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01
(slashdot ruins links, so you will have to remove the ASCII space it insertess usually into the url above to get to the shocking info and photos on the enbedded LOGI 160 chips that the us gov scans when you cross mexican and canadian borders.)
You never heard of it either because nobody moderates on slashdot anymore and this is probably +0 still. It has also never appeared in print before and is very secret.
Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.
http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.htm
but the fact is... YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A RADIO TRANSPONDER not counting your digital cell phone which is routinely silently pulsed in CA bay area each rush hour morning unless turned off (consult Wired Magazine Expose article). Those data point pulses are used by NSA on occasions.
The us FBI with NRO/NSA blessings, has requested us gov make this tire scanning information as secret as the information regarding all us inkjet printers sold in usa in the last 3 years using "yellow" GUID barcode under dark ink regions to serialize printouts to thwart counterfeiting of 20 dollar bills. (30 to 40 percent of ALL California counterfeiting is done using cheap Epson inkjet printers, most purchased with credit cards foolishly). Luckily court dockets divulge the existence of the Epson serial numbers on your printouts... but nobody except a handful of people know about this Tire scanning upgrade to big brother's arsenal.
YOU MUST BUY NEUTRALIZED OR FOREIGN TIRES!!!!! Soon such tires will become illegal to import or manufacture, just as Gasoline must have "Taggants" added or gasoline is illegal, as are non-self-aging 9 mm bullets.
It is currently VERY illegal to buy or disable the "911 help" GPS emitter in digital cell phones in the US or ship a modified phone across state borders, but it is still legal to turn off your cell phone in your car while travelling. As you should. And you should be wary of your tires now too. : http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TAQIKjBI01gC
Alternatively you could illegally build jamming devices at : 13.56 MHz, + 1,356 MHz +- many freqs (TI-RFid) and a few others. If microwave is ever employed you might not be able to effectively jam but your brain would possibly cook over time, as it now known as of this year that the three harmonic resonances of water are not the only chemical actions harming human tissue at gigaherz frequencies. Jammers would be illegal and violators easy to locate. Tire removal is the only option.
RFIDs have been covertly used and sold by TI for over ten years are in many many products... and now your tires are being read by the us gov as you drive at speeds of up to 100 Mph on primary US interstate corridors. (Actually 160 km/h).
Those same US interstate corridors have radiation detectors too, but a small layer of stacks of interlocked graphite blocks those from detecting stealthy deliveries. Graphite blocks are IDEAL for shipping "dirty bomb" components, I believe.
Anyway, regarding tire radio transmitters: the sokymat LOGI 160, and sokymat LOGI 120) are just SOME of the transponders found in modern tires. The earliest tire radio spy chips had only 64 bit serial numbers but they have rapidly evolved post Sept 11 bombings: LOGI 160 LOGI 120 has 224 bit R/W memory (sokymat.ch) to be marked using external hand help injectors with "salt" info when the fbi tags your parked car.
Basically the FBI "marks your car" without touching it physically, thus eliminating a "warrant" to put a locater on your vehicle. Just as the FBI can listen to you while you are at home by LEGALLY bouncing an infrared beam off your vibrating window pane and modulating the signal, the US Gov can LEGALLY inject (program) a saltable read-write sokymat LOGI eeprom tire chip (and other brands of tire transponders)
Using these chips to track people while they drive is actually the idea of the us gov, and current chips CANNOT BE DISABLED or removed. They hope ALL tires will have these chips in 5 years and hope people have a very hard time finding non-chipped tires. Removing the chips is near impossible without destroying the tire as the chips were designed with that DARPA design goal.
They are hardened against removal or heat damage or easy eye detection and can be almost ANYWHERE in the new "big brother" tires. In fact in current models they are integrated early and deep into the substrate of the tire as per US FBI request.
Our freedom of travel are going away in 2003, because now there is an international STANDARD for all tire transponder RFID chips and in 2004 nearly ALL USA cars will have them. Refer to AIAG B-11 ADC, (B-11 is coincidentally Post Sept 11 fastrack initiative by US Gov to speed up tire chip standardization to one read-back standard for highway usage).
The AIAG is "The Automotive Industry Action Group"
The non proprietary (non-sokymat controlled) standard is the AIAG B-11 standard is the "Tire Label and Radio Frequency Identification" standard
"ADC" stands for "Automatic Data Collection"
The "AIDCW" is the US gov manipulated "Automatic Identification Data Collection Work Group"
The standard was started and finished rapidly in less than a year as a direct consequence of the Sep 11 attacks by Saudi nationals.
I believe detection of the AIAG B-11 radio chips (RFIS serial number transponders) in the upgraded car tracking http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html is currently secret knowledge. Another reason to leave "finger print on Driver license" California, but Ohio gets it next, as will every other state eventually.
The AIAG is claiming the chips reduce car theft, assist in tracking defects, and assists error-proofing the tire assembly process. But the real secret is that these 5 cent devices are a us government backed initiative to track citizens travel without their consent or ability to disable the transponders in any way.
All tire manufacturers are forced to comply AIAG B-11 3.0 Radio Tire tracking standard by the 2004 model year.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:-qJPsZjkMA
Viewing b11 synopsis is free, downloads from that are $10 and tracked by the FBI. Use the google cache to avoid leaving breadcrumbs.
And just as showerheads are now illegal to import into the USA from Canada or mexico, as are drums of industrial Freon, and standard size toilets are illegal to import for home use, soon car tires without radio transponders will be illegal to bring across state borders.
The US gov is getting away with this. You read it here first.
Learn and read.
Ask your mental health care professional to up your Thorazine(TM) dosage and double the foil on your aluminum beanie.
yes. I'm not sure what your point is.
I have a few dozen cards for Giant Eagle courtesy of their online form. Conveniently, it even gives you a bar-coded "card" to print and use.
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