| Microchips everywhere: A future vision
Elliott Maxwell, a research fellow at Pennsylvania State University who serves as a policy adviser to EPCglobal, the industry's standard-setting group, says data broadcast by microchips can easily be intercepted, and misused, by high-tech thieves. As RFID goes mainstream and the range of readers increases, it will be "difficult to know who is gathering what data, who has access to it, what is being done with it, and who should be held responsible for it," Maxwell wrote in RFID Journal, an industry publication. The recent growth of the RFID industry has been staggering: From 1955 to 2005, cumulative sales of radio tags totaled 2.4 billion; last year alone, 2.24 billion tags were sold worldwide, and analysts project that by 2017 cumulative sales will top 1 trillion - generating more than $25 billion in annual revenues for the industry.
UK 2017: under surveillance
On Friday, this study, entitled A Report on the Surveillance Society, was picked over by a select group of government mandarins, politicians, police officers and academics in Edinburgh. It is unequivocal in its findings, with its first sentence reading simply: "We live in a surveillance society." The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, endorses the report. He says: "Today, I fear that we are, in fact, waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us." .
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UK 2017: under surveillance
On Friday, this study, entitled A Report on the Surveillance Society, was picked over by a select group of government mandarins, politicians, police officers and academics in Edinburgh. It is unequivocal in its findings, with its first sentence reading simply: "We live in a surveillance society." The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, endorses the report. He says: "Today, I fear that we are, in fact, waking up to a surveillance society that is already all around us." .
TheStar.com | Canada | Pickton's fate in jury's hands
Supreme Court in New Westminster under a publication ban. October 2005: Pre-trial hearings end. Jan. 30, 2006: Voir dire portion of Pickton trial begins in B.C. Supreme Court. March 2006: Judge quashes murder count involving unidentified woman. Aug. 9, 2006: Judge decides to sever charges to prevent unreasonable burden on jury. Sept. 8, 2006: Crown decides to proceed on six counts first, with other 20 counts to be tried at a later date. Dec. 9, 2006: Jury selection begins. Dec. 12, 2006: Jury selected. Jan. 22, 2007: Crown opens case against Pickton on six charges of first-degree murder. Aug. 13, 2007: Crown closes case after calling 98 witnesses. Oct.
Apple's latest laptop Macbook Air: Small is in
There's never been a laptop as skinny as the new MacBook Air from Apple. At its thinnest, it measures just about four millimetres. "When you first see MacBook Air, it's hard to believe it's a high-performance notebook with a full-size keyboard and display," gushed Apple CEO Steve Jobs while presenting the new laptop at the keynote speech of the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. "But it is." The excitement at the Moscone Centre was also sparked in typically reserved observers like Michael Gartenberg, research director at the US market research firm Jupiter Research: "This will become the object of lust for all tech fans this year," Gartenberg said. In advance of the MacWorld Expo, the chatter on many websites was focused on a potential combination of the iPhone and a normal laptop - more or less a retooling of the "Newton" PDA concept that Apple phased out 10 years ago.
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