Is the VeriChip the Mark of the Beast?
Currently the VeriChip is not the mark of the beast. But at some point in the future it could be part of the physical mark that is put on a person’s forehead or right hand. Privacy advocates Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre are the most prominent opponents of implanted microchips. They are coauthors of a position paper on the use of spychips, “RFID: The Big Brother code, the books “Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID” (2006) and “The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance” and the Antichips.org website. Their work broadly overlaps that of CASPIAN, a grassroots privacy group founded by Albrecht in 1999 to oppose the use of “loyalty cards” to track consumer purchases in supermarkets. Associated sites include Spychips.org, a site opposing RFID chips hidden in consumer goods, and Nocards.org, with more general discussion of privacy issues. Notable quotes include McIntyre (on the VeriChip liabilit
