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From The Guardian:
Britain's biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security.
UK firm BioTeq, which offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 implants in the UK.
The tiny chips, implanted in the flesh between the thumb and forefinger, are similar to those for pets. They enable people to open their front door, access their office or start their car with a wave of their hand, and can also store medical data.
[...] Steven Northam, the founder and owner of Hampshire-based BioTeq, told the Guardian that most of its 150 implants have been for individuals, while some financial and engineering firms have also had the chips implanted in their staff.
BioTeq has also implanted them in employees of a bank testing the technology, and has shipped them to Spain, France, Germany, Japan and China.
We recently covered similar technology being used in Sweden but the idea of implanting a tracking chip in a human for identification is nothing new.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Subsentient on Tuesday November 13 2018, @09:07AM (2 children)
It's really not hard to imagine how this can end in absolute disaster. Tagging people like cattle and pets.
The security issues will be horrifying in the end, and you'll need surgery to fix a good number of them.
Not to mention you'll likely have radio embedded at some point, so the government can track you if you do something they don't like.
Watch, China's government is going to push for these first. Mark my words.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:37PM
Why would they want to do such a stupid thing?? You already have your face, your height and the way you walk - much more unique and difficult to fake
It's already embedded. It's called a cell phone.
To me the idea is stupid and just something that is clickbait, nothing else. Better solutions already exist for the "government" anyway. This just looks like stupid idea that some moron came up with and wants to make money on.
(Score: 3, Informative) by MadTinfoilHatter on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:45PM
I believe the security issues will pale in comparison with the authoritarian issues. China is showing the way with a move to an all but cashless society, which they are already using to reboot the largest scale persecution of religious people*, since the days of chairman Mao. And if there's something we all ought to take home from the Snowden revelations, it's the fact that the so called "Western democracies" are not to be trusted either.
*) A person who usually spends his money at bars in the evening stops doing that, and just before Sunday he buys 100 paper cups... Maybe someone just converted to Christianty and is attending an illegal unregistered church? Flag him as suspicious and send him to a "re-education camp". Yes, this shit is already happening - and it goes to show that the true enemy here is not the implants (not that I'll want any of that either, thank you very much) but the cashless society...