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A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 04 2017, @01:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the betcha-can't-implant-just-one dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. [...]

What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.

[...] "People ask me; 'Are you chipped?' and I say; 'Yes, why not,'" said Fredric Kaijser, the 47-year-old chief experience officer at Epicenter. "And they all get excited about privacy issues and what that means and so forth. And for me it's just a matter of I like to try new things and just see it as more of an enabler and what that would bring into the future."

The implants have become so popular that Epicenter workers stage monthly events where attendees have the option of being "chipped" for free.

Full article here:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/start-up-epicenter-implants-employees-with-microchips.html

AC: There are so many things wrong with both the article and with those people I wouldn't know where to start.

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  • (Score: 1) by Soylentbob on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:16AM

    by Soylentbob (6519) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @04:16AM (#488523)

    More healthy for the hand, and still effective, should be the Zapper [events.ccc.de] proposed on a CCC congress in 2006. Basically you use a small coil and the capacity / battery of e.g. a one-time-camera. Instead of the flash you connect the coil and place the RFID close to it. The device creates an EMP which should overload the electronic in the RFID.

    Since the RFID doesn't have a built-in power source, it requires an antenna to power the device via an electromagnetic field. A strong enough EMP should overload the device and fry it, quite similar to the microwave. Proved to work on several passports.

    I heard it can be illegal to do that in Germany, because the passport is officially a property of the state which is destroyed. However, I never heard of anyone getting in trouble for doing it either with the Zapper or with the Microwave.