Katherine Albrecht is a

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advocate , Vice President (VP) of Startpage.com and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification (RFID). Albrecht devised the term " spy chips" to describe RFID tags such as those embedded in

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s and certain enhanced United States driver's licenses. Katherine Albrecht holds a

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degree from

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. She is a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire. Albrecht was interviewed about RFID chips in Aaron Russo's 2006 documentary '' America: From Freedom to Fascism''.

Publications

Books

Albrecht and Liz McIntyre (CASPIAN's communications director) co-authored the book ''Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move'', which won the November 2005 Lysander Spooner Award for advancing the literature of liberty. The book lays out the potential implications of RFID on privacy and civil liberties. RFID industry representatives have criticized it, claiming the authors exaggerate some RFID privacy threats. In a lengthy rebuttal, Albrecht asked why critics don't "mention sworn patent documents from IBM describing ways to secretly follow innocent people in libraries, theaters, and public restrooms through the RFID tags in their clothes and belongings? Where is ��outrage over BellSouth's patent-pending plans to pick through our garbage and skim the data contained in the RFID tags we discard?"

Articles and papers

* Albrecht, Katherine.
Supermarket Cards: The Tip of the Retail Surveillance Iceberg.
''Denver University Law Review'', Volume 79, Issue 4, Summer 2002. pp. 534–539 and 558–565. * Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Consumer Products. Co-authored with Liz McIntyre and Beth Givens. November 14, 2003

* "RFID: The Doomsday Scenario." In: ''RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy'', eds. S. Garfinkel and B. Rosenberg. New Jersey: Addison Wesley. 2006. pp. 259–273. *

(Co-authored with Liz McIntyre) ''ALEC Policy Forum'', Winter 2004, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 49–54.

Radio talk show host

Previously, she hosted a two-hour daily program called ''Uncovering the Truth with Katherine Albrecht'' on the We The People Radio Network (WTPRN)
/ref> from April 2007 until the network ceased all programming in October 2008. Albrecht later broadcast ''The Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show'' on the GCN Radio network until 2016.

Religious beliefs

Albrecht believes that RFID chips and other emerging technologies could lead to the

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. She has written a children's book called ''I Won't Take the Mark: A Bible Book and Contract for Children''.

References

External links

Official Website

Spy Chips Website

Official CASPIAN Website
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