There was a push for #RFID #Technology back in the 1990s. The test markets were in the Midwest, and met with unexpectedly severe blowback. The fundamentalist Christian view was that the chips were too much like the biblical ''mark of the beast'' because they were supposed to be implanted into the hand to identify employees and consumers. Believe what you want. Privacy fighters take what they can get. When I was a kid the blowback was severe enough I was still hearing about this around the 2012 end-of-world panic, so I did research to figure out what was really going on. Despite persistent low-scale marketing efforts, the company with the patent pivoted to website certificate management. 

The only thing I knew about the  is all of this was being blamed on them. Then there was a night little-kid me ran into an honest desk jockey for them. Of course I asked him about #VeriChip. He got an expression on his face like I'd brought up the most socially-toxic aspect of his work. What he said came down to three things that stuck in my mind. 

''Yeah, there are some younger folk who think that would be a good idea, but the rest of us are trying to stop them.'' ''Whenever you want to put something in the public's bodies there's a really bad reaction.'' ''We can just accomplish all of that with biometrics anyway, but the younger employees who push for the cups want to make money selling the chips.'' I didn't know what "biometrics" meant, so I asked, and he explained how eye scans worked at the time, thumb print as #ID , and the prospect of then-in-its-infancy gait analysis. His issue wasn't my #Privacy being violated, his view was closer to, ''we already have cameras everywhere, so why put something in the body if you don't have to.'' 

#TechnologyNews #LuxuryLiving #CounterfeitGoods #Counterfeiting #Coubterfeit #LawEnforcement #TradeMark #UnfairCompetition

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/former-tesla-product-manager-wants-to-make-luxury-goods-impossible-to-fake-starting-with-a-chip

If we're being honest this should probably be the biggest news story today. We already knew all the terrible things the media is focusing on today, but this could be a game-changer.
   

#LegalNews #TechnologyNews #Internet #Google #Alphabet #TheAtlantic #CorruptBusinessPractices #Lawsuit #News #Anticompetitive #Monopoly #CompetitiveAdvantage #Fraud #Misrepresentation #UnfairCompetition

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/the-atlantic-google-alphabet-lawsuit

⚠ Normally, a commercial social network should be neutral in influence and responsible to its users, this is not the case with the popular social networks. Unfair competition of all kinds is present in this story. A social network remains, above all, a means of communication, and including an propaganda on a social network therefore becomes a political weapon and a weapon of unfair competition in the international market. Thank you.

#SocialMedia
#CentralizedSocialNetwork
#UnfairCompetition
#Irresponsibility
#Fake
#Politicalinfluence
#NationalistPropaganda
#InternationalMarket
#Dishonesty
#Scams
#Lies
#UnfairCompetitionOfAllKinds
#Justice
#RochAliciaMira

#Canada: #elbowsup is not enough: https://www.aurianneor.org/canada-elbow-up-is-not-enough/

#aurianneor #coalitionofthewilling #democracy #drugs #education #environment #farright #foodinsecurity #healthcare #housingcrisis #humanist #hunger #inequalities #infrastructures #intimidation #JustinTrudeau #KamalaHarris #left #medication #patriotic #politicians #poverty #price #Putin #racism #referendum #socialexclusion #standardofliving #transport #Trudeau #Trump #ubi #unfaircompetition #unity #universalbasicincome #wealth

https://www.politico.eu/article/von-der-leyen-hits-china-with-electric-vehicle-subsidy-probe/

[U.S. msut also investigate if #BEV value chains in #China benefit from illegal #subsidies, a tactic China has often used as a go-to policy to gain a foothold in new markets]

Ursula von der Leyen: “The #EV #electricvehicle sector holds huge potential for Europe's future competitiveness and green industrial leadership…Wherever we find evidence that their efforts are being impeded by market distortions and #unfaircompetition, we will act decisively."

#Republican #school #Superintendent #TomHorne attempts to defend the indefensible.

Despite less than a dozen #trans #students seeking to join #girls' #sports teams in Arizona in the past 10 years, Horne claims #girls are facing #unfaircompetition, in vehemently supporting the state's #trans #athlete #ban.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Arizona #Education #Sports #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.azmirror.com/2023/05/24/arizona-schools-chief-moves-to-defend-sports-ban-for-trans-girls/

Important, detailed piece by Ted Tatos. Building on this, it's worth exploring in more legal detail how these acts might violate Section 5 of FTC Act (specifically as it implicates the agency's unfair competition authority)

https://www.thesling.org/the-antitrust-case-against-elon-musks-twitter/

#antitrust #unfaircompetition #twitter