radimus

It just for "testing" now...
But once the outrage dies (if it even starts, not counting the ACLU of course) this could easily get out of control. All George Orwell style.

Hey let us implant this chip and you could use it like a credit card speed pass, driver's license, whatever.

For security purposes we'll implant it into your spine, so we will not have people cutting off your hand like fingerprint readers.

Somehow, I just don't fing this appealing.

http://financialtimes.printthis.clic...partnerID=1744

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An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them. CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police. Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries. RFID chips – inexpensive radio transmitters that give off a unique identifying signal – have been implanted in pets or attached to goods so they can be tracked in transit.

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Seems to me American business has been implanting (as least symbolically) for years...

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Coughin Nails

One possible scenario: this could lead to a 2-tier system of employees, especially in IT. The "tagged" ones who are allowed into more secure areas, and the less-secure "non-tagged" ones who, as long as they refuse an implant, will never be allowed to advance beyond a certain level of responsibility.

Fun times ahead...

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radimus

Canadian couple implants chips in themselves.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=PrintStory

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An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.

Seems better than signing in, signing out, signing in and out again!

Company firefighters often run in to rescue those who forgot to sign out of a controlled area.

Imagine goin' in to rescue a "ghost?" Dangerous!

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aximfanatic

so now they track your every move while @ wrk and maybe more......

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