All wireless technology, including 5G, gives off radiofrequency (“RF”) radiation which is absorbed into and accumulates in the human body. Hundreds of studies show proof of biological harm from wireless devices including infertility, cancer and DNA damage.

We are already significantly exposed to RF radiation but it is set to dramatically increase.  By 2030, it is projected there will be over 500 billion wirelessly connected devices globally, averaging almost 60 devices per person.

Frank Clegg is the Former President of Microsoft Canada and is currently the CEO of Canadians for Safe Technology and serves on the business advisory group of the Environmental Health Trust. Clegg has played a leadership role in the country’s technology sector and the broader Canadian community for many years.

Clegg has been vocal about his concerns regarding the safety of 5G wireless technology and has challenged telecom companies to provide scientific evidence of its safety.  He has also spoken out against the installation of Wi-Fi in schools, citing concerns for the health and well-being of pupils, particularly those who may be electrosensitive.

In 2019, Clegg released an educational video about the health and safety concerns of 5G and wireless technologies. It outlines the most current research and data at the time on wireless technologies, its implications and potential impacts to human health. It also makes a call for policymakers and industry to explore the achievable safer solutions that will allow us to retain all the benefits of our technology, but safely.

After spending over 40 years in the technology sector, “I’ve seen the tremendous benefit that technology can provide I’ve also seen the potential harm if technology is not implemented correctly … I am especially concerned about our current implementation of 5G wireless technology and the more research I do and the more experts I talk to the more concerned I become,” he said.

He continued, “Over 230 scientists and researchers from 41 countries around the world have formally written to the United Nations their member nations and the World Health Organisation expressing their concern over their planned rollout of 5G technology.”

“I am not aware of a single study that shows that 5G technology is safe,” he said.

He explained that all wireless technology, including 5G, gives off RF radiation which is absorbed into and accumulates in the human body.

The proven health effects of wireless technology and wireless devices include:

• Insomnia.
• Headaches.
• Fatigue.
• Heart palpitations.
• Heart arrhythmia.
• Infertility.
• Tinnitus.
• Numbness or tingling in the extremities.
• Diabetes.
• Cancer.
• Permanent DNA damage.
• Mental health issues such as increased anxiety, depression, attention-deficit disorder (“ADD”) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (“ADHD”), autism, mood swings and emotional instability.

He said that hundreds of studies show proof of biological harm from wireless devices.  Most recently, the National Institute of Health’s National Toxicology Programme released a study in 2018 that showed evidence of cancer and DNA damage from wireless device use.

How could a product that has this much potential harm ever be released for public use?

“The [Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”)] regulates all wireless devices and products associated with them. Unfortunately, the FCC is made up of previous telecom executives, lawyers and engineers. It does not have any scientists [or] doctors,” Clegg said.

The FCC guidelines are 20 years out of date and where the regulations and the guidelines are significantly lacking, “there is actually no oversight provided by the FCC. And in fact, the telecommunications industry is self-policing so what we are left with is almost a wild-west scenario.”

Additionally, “the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibits any telecommunication company to be sued on the basis of the safety or health of their products,” he said.

There is also mounting evidence that the telecommunications industry knew about the potential impacts of RF radiation years ago and there are over 500 lobbyists working in Congress and other areas of legislature protecting the industry, he said.

We already have a significant amount of exposure in our homes, businesses, schools and most public areas.  And by 2030, Cisco projects there will be over 500 billion wirelessly connected devices globally, averaging almost 60 devices per person.

At the federal and state level in the US, he said, they’re fast-tracking legislation to support the rollout of 5G infrastructure.  This is in 2019. 

“This legislation seems to be taking away all individual rights and the rights of local towns and counties and cities, and passing more power to the telecommunication companies … this is a historic and precedent-setting power shift from the individual and state and local level over to an industry,” he said.

He explained that there are designs that show small cell 5G antennas as close as every third house in a neighbourhood.  “[That] could be as close as every 500 feet in public areas. The impact of that radiation at that level of frequency and intensity and power 24 hours a day and seven days a week is unprecedented and it’s not understood.”

He concluded by suggesting how we can help.  “The most important thing is to get educated,” he said. “We have provided a little bit of an overview and some of the scientific evidence … but now you have to take the initiative,” and provided some websites with resources which we have listed after Clegg’s video below.

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