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ORIGINAL: Archer

The microchips transmit ONLY WHEN the scanner suppies the power. They send no signal until the scanner is close enough that the scanner's signal is strong enough to be transfered into electricity inside the chip and the data sent. The chips have no integrated power supply and they are not hooked up to the nervous system to get their power.

Is there potential for this to be abused by criminals as well as corporations and governments? Yes but the state of the art right now is not there to be tracked like a GPS.

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ORIGINAL: MistressVnus

http://www.prisonplanet.com/black_box_in_your_car.html

Check it out!!! It's here.  It's coming.  Big brother is slowly squeezing your nuts.  Can't you feel it?  If not, you will soon.

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Is there potential for this to be abused by criminals as well as corporations and governments?

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ORIGINAL: MistressVnus
My point is, not so much that the current "function" (so they say) is limited to such and such, but that this is another step to monitor what we do WITOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE in advance!!  Did you read the whole article?  They have already stepped this up to include a device under the seat that can do GPS.  Hmmmmmmmm???  Did you read that part?
Did we vote on this?  Does it violate our constitutional right to privacy?  We all have our views, of course.  But do they matter?  I think the evidence is continuing to mount that our "views" are beside the point.  We've lost our voice.  AND, we're continuing to LET THEM take our voice.  Unless they are monitoring it, of course, through the wonderful patriot act and their right to monitor our phone conversations without our knowledge, subpeona, or anything else.  Hmmmmmm.
All they have to say is....Gee, we "thought" there might be an issue with this person regarding terrorrism.  Sorry.
It's a slow squeeze.  Spoon feeding.

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/
 

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Did we vote on this?  Does it violate our constitutional right to privacy?  We all have our views, of course.  But do they matter?  I think the evidence is continuing to mount that our "views" are beside the point.  We've lost our voice.  AND, we're continuing to LET THEM take our voice.  Unless they are monitoring it, of course, through the wonderful patriot act and their right to monitor our phone conversations without our knowledge, subpeona, or anything else.  Hmmmmmm.

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado
And as far as the Constitution goes, where does it guarantee us the right of privacy out in public on the streets? 

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but I'm much more worried about corporations putting in the scanners than the government.

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Mstrss venus, there is nothing about GPS tracking in the article you cited.

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but I'm much more worried about corporations putting in the scanners than the government.

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Lots of people forget that part and it turns most federalists stomachs over to think ultimate power is in the hands of the people and not the government.

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ORIGINAL: Archer

I'm much more worried about corporations putting in the scanners than the government.
Walk in the store, it scans your credit card and ATM card, they then know your ballances and they access your past purcahses, not only here but at other stores that share information. They then watch your purchases and target you for advertisements based on the information they gather. Additionally identity theft by criminals with scanners.
Lots of scarey things could happen with the technology. What's worse is they will sell the technology to us all because it makes things "easier and safer" just like they have with the Onstar Systems.

I'm worried by the technology, but it's not exactl like there are many ways you can avoid it. They will phase out non chipped not networked tools until you have only the chipped versions to work with.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado
And as far as the Constitution goes, where does it guarantee us the right of privacy out in public on the streets? 

Not only does it not, but it does not according to the supreme court, and goes a little farther than that, in that monitoring your radio waves from cell phones and whatnot is supposed to be allowed because 'any reasonable man' would not assume privacy in such public usage, even from the swimming pool in your living room. Of course, this does not extend to you intercepting digital signals from the TV fellers, wholly different sort of thing.

Ron