Name Katherine Albrecht Role Radio personality | Organizations founded CASPIAN | |
Movies America: Freedom to Fascism Books Spychips: How Major Corporati, The Spychips Threat: W, I Won't Take the Mark: A B Similar Liz McIntyre, Aaron Russo, Alex Jones | ||
Dr. Katherine Albrecht on 'DNA Tracks'
Katherine Albrecht: Spychips
Katherine Albrecht is the founder of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She is a consumer privacy advocate and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification (RFID). Albrecht devised the term "spy chips" to describe RFID tags such as those embedded in passport cards and certain enhanced United States driver's licenses. Katherine Albrecht holds a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University. She is a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire.
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- Dr Katherine Albrecht on DNA Tracks
- Katherine Albrecht Spychips
- Books
- Articles and papers
- Radio talk show host
- Media relations for Ixquick
- Religious Beliefs
- References
Albrecht was interviewed about RFID chips in Aaron Russo's 2006 documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism.
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
Radio talk show host
Albrecht is the host of a two-hour radio talk show on Saturday afternoons on WSMN (1590 kHz) in Nashua.
Previously, she hosted a two-hour daily program called "Uncovering the Truth with Katherine Albrecht" on the We The People Radio Network (WTPRN) from April 2007 until the network ceased all programming in October 2008. Albrecht was the first former WTPRN host to carry on elsewhere with a syndicated program, now broadcasting "The Dr. Katherine Albrecht show" on the GCN Radio network.
Media relations for Ixquick
On January 27, 2009, Katherine Albrecht became Head U.S. Media Relations for Ixquick.com to help raise awareness for the privacy-friendly meta-search engine. She is responsible for strategy, execution, and management of all media communications and marketing initiatives in the U.S.
Religious Beliefs
Albrecht believes that RFID chips and other emerging technologies could lead to the Mark of the Beast. She has written a children's book called I Won't Take the Mark: A Bible Book and Contract for Children.