Call it a conspiracy theory. But I expect our personal information–about our health and habits–will soon be traded on the global markets.
–mb
(They took charge: Representatives from 20 nations signed the Convention on the OECD on 14 December 1960. Image: OECD)
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental trade organization set-up to rebuild postwar Europe, will decide which privacy protections apply to the data governments and global businesses skim off the RFID tags in your wallet, and under your skin.
The OECD has its roots in a 1948 meeting in Paris, where 18 countries met to make their currencies convertible. Today, the OECD includes 30 countries, including Israel and Chile.
And just like NATO, the OECD’s mission continues to expand beyond its original mandates.
Indeed, the OECD is now eager to control tomorrow’s global currency: the data RFID tags provide about the products and people bearing them.
Wal-Mart, Kmart and other big box retailers, and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, plan to attach RFID tags to everything person and product on the planet. The real and virtual worlds will be joined by the tags. RFID proponents call this mix “the internet of things.”
RFID expert Elliot Maxwell (see link and excerpt, below) wrote last year that the OECD might be well-suited to set “fair information practices (for RFID) by bringing together governments, businesses and civil society.”
The OECD last month made its case for applying its own privacy and security standards, in a paper that relies largely on pro-RFID news in the mainstream media. Click here for the PDF.
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When will people ever wake up. Technology is not there to benefit the average person, merely to enslave them.
No doubt all this will make the world a “safer” place as we “combat terrorism”.
When did people lose all concerns over privacy, i that “I have nothing to hide” phrase is well passed its sell by date.