[LINK] Fwd: 'UK considers implanting RFID tags into prisoners'

[Adam Todd]

At 09:38 15/01/2008, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>There are also proposals to link the RFID tags to a larger GPS 
>>device to monitor the location of high risk prisoners.

Didn't know there were GPS RX's that small!

>>Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "If the Home Office 
>>does not understand why implanting a chip in someone is worse than 
>>an ankle bracelet, they do not need a human-rights lawyer they need 
>>a common-sense bypass.

Common Sense?

>>"Degrading offenders in this way will do nothing for their 
>>rehabilitation and nothing for our safety, as some will inevitably 
>>find a way round this new technology."

Swap chips with a lesser prisoner?

>>The RFID proposals are designed to address problems with the 
>>existing tagging system which uses a transmitter strapped to the ankle.

Which is bigger, and more visible and actually transmits over a fair distance.


>>Over 2,000 of the 17,000 offenders fitted with the ankle tags have 
>>escaped by tampering with, or simply cutting off, the device.

And these prisoners won't have any desire to rip two grains of rice 
from their bodies with a blunt instrument?

Haven't we seen in Hollywood that where fingers prints and retinas 
are used as a means of security ID, criminals have no fear of 
chopping off the fingers or ripping out the eyes.

I guess the innocent victims of false conviction will be the ones 
that don't play hacker - literally.


>>Curfew breaches for the past two years are up 283 per cent, and 
>>further development of the system has been halted until these 
>>problems can be sorted out.

Sounds like a human administrative issue rather than an electronic 
tagging issue.

>>Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the National 
>>Association of Probation Officers, stated that the RFID proposal 
>>would be unhelpful.

Cause they are too short range?

>>"This is the sort of daft idea that comes up from the department 
>>every now and then, but tagging people in the same way we tag our 
>>pets cannot be the way ahead," he said.

Yes I can see it now.

Black Van drives down the road - TV Detector

Anther Black Van drives down the road - Pet RFID Detector

Another Black Van drives down the road - Fashion RFID detector

Another black van drives down the road - Criminal Detector

Another Black Van Drives down the road - Negligent Parent Detector

Another Black Van drives down the road - Porn Detector

>>"Knowing where offenders like paedophiles are does not mean you 
>>know what they are doing."

Errr, if they area paedophile, you can be pretty sure you know what 
they are doing, especially if they are an OFFENDER.