Big Brother is watching your boarding pass. At least at Manchester Airport in England he is. I've written about the creepy, Orwellian idea of tracking airline passengers using secret (or now not-so-secret) radio frequency identification (RFID) tags over at my Blog at WomensWallStreet.com. Setting the mark-of-the-beast overtones asides, it is a flawed idea to think machines will win the war against the terrorists. In my blog I write:

As a reminder, no machine has ever prevented a terrorist attack. Conversely, terrorist attacks have repeatedly been stopped/thwarted/foiled by human beings: human beings who have had their eyes and ears open while they do their jobs. In the past, this has included airport employees, custom and border patrol employees, checkpoint employees and other living, breathing humans. The goal at airports should be to provide all employees with the highest level of training possible, not to throw more money at technology. 

To read more about RFID Spychips, particularly attempts to implant radio tags in humans, click here, here and here.  

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