Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants.
"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.
The company designs software for break room markets that are commonly found in office complexes.
Just as people are able to purchase items at the market using phones, Westby wants to do the sam[sic] thing using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.
"We'll come up, scan the item," he explained, while showing how the process will work at an actual break room market kiosk. "We'll hit pay with a credit card, and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for my product."
If the company was really cool they would do it by tattooing the sum of the squares of the first seven primes (2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²) over the employees' left ear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:10AM
Yeah. At a former job, all employees were 'offered' a wellness program that would give $XX off your health insurance each month, at the cost of waiving all privacy rights re healthcare information. Being fat, I didn't agree. 6 months after implementation, I see my paycheck dinged -$XXX each month for 'non-compliance', and my employee reviews went from 4/5 to 2/5 for 'a lack of cooperation'. When I objected, I was told straight out that not participating meant I was not a 'team player' and there's really nothing to worry about.
I will not work for a company that requires access to my medical history (which, BTW, makes your medical history essentially public and sellable - no matter what protections may be written in law, an 'aggregrate or anonymized history' can be sold, and both are trivial to reconnect to the person) Nor do I want to work for a company that uses RF tracking badges or phones. Forcibly getting chipped? When exactly will violence *be* considered the answer?