Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move

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Spychips: Fact or Fiction?
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Association for Automatic Identification and Moblility

A Book Review of "Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFID"
by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre

Reviewed by Bert Moore, Editor.

To truly point out all of the flaws in this tome would, itself, require an entire book, but it is important for us to point out the most egregious errors and faults immediately. Left unchecked, consumers, the media, business leaders, and government officials could proliferate this misinformation, draw faulty conclusions, and ignore the current benefits and promise of RFID.

For conspiracy buffs, this book makes a great read. It has just enough technical detail to lend it an air of credibility and more than enough nightmarish speculation to make it truly frightening -- which is exactly the point of any good horror novel."

"This is the first, and maybe the loudest, popular book on a crucial technology of our times...all of it is fascinating, some is gross and revolting, and most of it is hilarious... this is a masterpiece of technocriticism." -- From the foreword by Bruce Sterling, best-selling author and tech commentator "The book makes a very persuasive case that some of America's biggest companies want to embed tracking technology into virtually everything we own, and then study our usage pattens 24 hours a day. It's a truly creepy book and well worth reading."
--Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe technology reporter

"Brilliantly written...so full of fascinating vignettes and facts that I can't put it down."
--Author Claire Wolfe

Spychips "make[s] a stunningly powerful argument against plans for RFID being mapped out by government agencies, retail and manufacturing companies." --— Evan Schuman, CIO Insight

"Spychips is one of the best privacy books in many years....The privacy movement needs a book. I nominate Spychips."
--Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

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