The Real Big Brother

adayinthelife · May 27, 2006

Did anybody else see the money programme on BBC 2 last night?

For anybody who missed the programme you can watch it online here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=money_programme

Seriously lads, this is one video everybody should watch.

No privacy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5015826.stm

One new technology could mean there will soon be nowhere to hide for any of us. The big high street retailers are experimenting with putting tiny computer chips in their merchandise.

These chips are called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Potentially, they could be used to track the products and the people who buy them, out of the shops and into their homes.

Dutch clubbers can have electronic trackers inserted in their bodies

One day, RFID chips could be on everything we buy, and it may not stop there.

Similar chips are also being implanted in patients in American hospitals, to act as minute ID cards and to track them through the medical system.

A world where everything and everybody can be tracked at any time, day or night, is a prospect which fills some observers with horror.

"You won't be able to hide from the system by closing your door or closing your curtains or hiding behind a wall," says privacy campaigner Christopher McDermott.

"The X-ray eyes of the state and of big corporates will be able to see through those, and will be able to see right into your very personal and private life."

Has business become the real Big Brother?

A worker on the programme, who takes orders from a computer and is monitored constantly in his working environment, said many of them felt like they were being de-humanized.

I guess people in general are just too trusting, as they probably haven't even thought about how all this surveillance technology could/would be used for sinister purposes.

Do people on here just assume 1984 is inevitable? and we will all be chipped in the near future?

Edited May 27, 2006 by adayinthelife

Ramón Benítez Hernández · May 27, 2006

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