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: 2, Disagree) by ledow on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:29PM (1 child)
I believe the book also warns of diety-based retribution on an almost per-page basis, but that singularly fails to materialise too.
Just because someone's warning you of something doesn't mean it has any relevance to reality at all.
Currently, it's illegal to require someone to undergo surgery for anything but absolutely necessary medical procedures ordered by a court after a long, long, long legal battle (e.g. when doctors say a child must be treated against parent's wishes etc.).
Until that changes, the story is nothing but hyperbole.
Even if we all "need" to have a chip to pay our way, you still can't force people to have it implanted inside their own bodies against their will. And given that "being in your body" is not a requirement in any way, shape or form for such chips to operate and perform their function, you have a seriously long and expensive legal battle until anything like a dystopian, Biblical enforcement of such could ever take place.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:48PM
You can't force people to get a state ID or driver's license either but it's all but impossible to live in modern society without one. Same thing here.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.