Books and Book Chapters

"SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID"

The award-winning bestseller and definitive guide to Radio Frequency Identification.

"Paints a 1984-ish picture of how corporations would like to use RFID tags to keep tabs on you." - Associated Press
"A chilling story about an emerging future in which spychips run amok as Big Brother and Big Shopkeeper invade our privacy in unprecedented ways." - Chicago Tribune

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• Read the hilarious forward by Sci-Fi writer Bruce Sterling - free!
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"THE SPYCHIPS THREAT: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance"

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Chapter in "RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy" Edited by Simson Garfinkel and Beth Rosenberg. New Jersey: Addison Wesley. 2006. (Katherine's chapter appears on pp. 259–273.)
This 15-page document introduces a new taxonomy for describing the databases that will store unique RFID numbers and describes how they will enable round-the-clock tracking of the public.
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Research Reports and Articles

• "FAQ  -  Microchip Implants: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions"
  AntiChips.com, Spring 2008.
  Answers 85 of the most commonly asked questions about chip implants, including damning evidence that the VeriChip Corporation misled reporters, regulators, and the public about studies linking chips to cancer.

• "Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs: A Review of the Literature 1990–2006"
  AntiChips.com, Fall 2007.
  Implanted radio-frequency (RFID) microchips cause fast-growing, malignant tumors in animals. Our study examines the research.
  

• "RFID: The Big Brother Bar Code" (Co-authored with Liz McIntyre) 
  ALEC Policy Forum, Winter 2004, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 49–54.

• "Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Consumer Products."
  Co-authored with Liz McIntyre and Beth Givens. November 14, 2003.

• "Supermarket Cards: Tip of the Retail Surveillance Iceberg"
  Denver University Law Review 79, 4 (Summer 2002), 534--539 and 558--565.
  The cards hanging on your keychain do more than give you discounts - they unlock the door to an astonishing level of retail surveillance.
  
  
• Katherine's doctoral dissertation, "Supermarket 'Loyalty' Cards and Consumer Privacy Education," revealed that three quarters of American consumers do not know that their grocery purchases are routinely recorded.
  

Philosophy and Activism

• "10 Reasons Not to Use a Fake Shopper Card"
  Even if you think you've found a way to "beat the system," you can't keep shopping at Surveillance Central.