{"id":21,"date":"2006-02-12T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/be-more-afraid"},"modified":"2006-02-12T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:27:30","slug":"be-more-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/be-more-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Be More Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two employees of a surveillance company have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spychips.com\/press-releases\/us-employees-verichipped.html\" target=\"_blank\">implanted with microchips<\/a>, using the same technology that tracks supermarket items.&nbsp;\u00a0 VeriChips&nbsp;\u00a0are Radio Frequency ID tabs that track an individual item (or now, person) by transmitting information to a &#8220;reader device&#8221; that can be located ANYWHERE.&nbsp;\u00a0 Gillette is leading the pack with this technology, having placed an order for 500 million RFID tags from a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alientechnology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alien Technology<\/a>. Gillette already uses them on some of its products ( Ha! I knew the Mach 3 was too good&nbsp;\u00a0to be true)<\/p>\n<p>Great, a whole new world of paranoia has opened up for me. Just when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/politics\/13856894.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney<\/a> cheered me up with his shooting &#8220;accident!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two employees of a surveillance company have been implanted with microchips, using the same technology that tracks supermarket items.&nbsp;\u00a0 VeriChips&nbsp;\u00a0are Radio Frequency ID tabs that track an individual item (or now, person) by transmitting information to a &#8220;reader device&#8221; that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/be-more-afraid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}