President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo just issued Executive Order 420 — A Unified Multi-Purpose ID System. The system will be used by all employees of the government and other government own and controlled corporations.
The system will initially be adapted by the NSO and NEDA. Individuals from the private sector may also opt in to this system.
Yahoo Inc. is testing a security service designed to prevent Web surfers from landing on sites that look like they are from Yahoo but that are fake ones set up by fraudsters to carry out phishing scams.The service lets users know if they have landed on a legitimate Yahoo sign-in Web page, preventing them from entering their Yahoo ID and password on a phishing site.
The service, which currently supports only U.S. Yahoo Web sites, is being tested and hasn’t been officially announced yet, a Yahoo spokeswoman said via e-mail on Friday.
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It’s a technology that is “years ahead of its time” but Deputy Customs commissioner Alexander Arevalo is willing to become a guinea pig just so Filipinos – and perhaps the whole of Asia – can see the advantages that RFID (radio frequency identification) can deliver.
With this as a premise, Arevalo took the rare opportunity to have a RFID chip inserted into his body last May 9, 2006 in New Jersey in the United States – the first Asian to undergo the procedure.
RFID is a technology similar to bar code identification. However, it is superior in the sense that it has greater scanning distance and does not require the line-of-sight reading of the bar code.
The chip, he says, was designed to have no adverse effect so the body wouldn’t reject it. “You also don’t have to declare it when going security check. Unless their scanner can read RFID information, then there’s no obligation for you to declare the presence of the chip in your body.”