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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 16, 2008 22:41:04 GMT -5
To view this item online, visit www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59690Tuesday, January 15, 2008 LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER Hospitals tagging babies with electronic chips Privacy advocates protest as half of Ohio birthing centers turn to tracking technology Posted: January 15, 2008 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2008 WorldNetDaily.com Over half the birthing facilities in Ohio are being equipped with an RFID infant protection system placed on infants at birth to prevent them from being abducted from the hospital or from being given to the wrong mother. "Standard protocol in the hospitals using the VeriChip system is that the baby receives an RFID anklet at birth and the mother receives a matching wristband," VeriChip spokeswoman Allison Tomek told WND. "The mothers are not asked." VeriChip Corp., a publicly listed company headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla., is marketing though its wholly-owned subsidiary, Xmark, a HUGS brand tag-and-bracelet infant security system. The RFID tag is attached to an infant at birth by an ankle bracelet that is detected by monitors positioned throughout the hospital. Critics charge the VeriChip system is an intrusive technology solution to a problem that is rare. "The VeriChip infant security system is a technology looking for a solution," said Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. "Baby snatching from hospital facilities is a diaper full of nonsense," Albrecht told WND.
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