Human Implantable Microchips

Wysiwyg · 27 January 2009

A company by the name of veri-sign has a product that is an implantable RFID radio frequency identification.

Does anyone fear the possible introduction of an identification system that replaces cards with underskin microchips?

Some explanation ...

Implantable RFID Tags

VeriChip products marked by the “Implantable” icon mean they utilize the implantable, passive RFID microchip, the VeriChip™, in their solutions for the purpose of automatic identification.

About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip inserts just under the skin and contains only a unique, 16-digit identifier. The chip itself does not contain any other data other than this unique electronic ID, nor does it contain any Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking capabilities. And unlike conventional forms of identification, the VeriChip™ cannot be lost, stolen, misplaced, or counterfeited. It is safe, secure, reversible, and always with you.

In Australia underskin microchips are already in use on dogs ...

Gamma Solutions embeds RFID tags in dogs

But RFID is already in use in the household of Gamma Solution’s owners Michael and Michelle Atallah. Milou and Mitzi, their two beloved dogs have an RFID tag embedded under their skin. If they ever get lost they can be scanned, just like a supermarket package, by a local vet who can then identify and reunite the dogs with Michael and Michelle.

Microchip tracking and identification devices will be more prominent in our forseeable future and suddenly the Orwellian state springs to mind with a slow and possibly purposeful attempt at constriction of privacy/freedom.

prawn_86 · 27 January 2009

I read a while ago about a few families in the US who had volunteered to have this done to them.

It does raise some interesting ethical questions, and i dont trust any gov enough to have it done to me

Stan 101 · 27 January 2009

This technology was being used in select night clubs in Brazil in 2005. It seemed quite popular but maybe it was just a faze.

cheers,

Wysiwyg · 28 January 2009

So there isn`t a great deal of concern over the possible introduction of RFID in the U.S. and then other parts of the world?

All that is needed is acceptance and that isn`t going to happen I would think.But what if your employer requires you to have a chip implant for security reasons?The plot thickens.

California has introduced a law to deny employers being able to tag their workers.

Worrying that your employer will force you to stick a small chip beneath your skin ranks low on the list of employee concerns in most parts of the country, but that didn't stop the state of California from passing a bill last week to ban such forced tagging of humans. The state senator who sponsored the bill called forced RFID tagging the "the ultimate invasion of privacy," and his bill is now on its way to the governor's desk for his signature.

Senate Bill 362 "would prohibit a person from requiring, coercing, or compelling any other individual to undergo the subcutaneous implanting of an identification device," and a similar version has already passed the state Assembly. Joseph Simitian, who came up with the idea, laments the fact that the RFID industry does not appear to find his idea a good one.

Link to article.

numbercruncher · 28 January 2009

Slip one into every person guilty of serious crimes.

white_crane · 28 January 2009

I want one...so I can find myself.

dhukka · 29 January 2009

Hello,

For a look at the negative implications of a human microchip implant, take a look at what it did to robots.

thankyou

dhukbots

Happy · 29 January 2009

numbercruncher said:
Slip one into every person guilty of serious crimes.

+1, especially recidivists convicted few times.

Happy · 3 February 2009

From NINEMSN, 2 Feb. 09

Sex attacker captured by own arms
18:00 AEST Wed Oct 8 2008
By ninemsn staff

A sex attacker who assaulted a woman in a deserted train station has been apprehended after she identified him by tattoos on his arms.
Elias Kajue, 22, grabbed the 23-year-old woman while she was waiting for a train, The Sun reports.
He dragged her into a subway where he tried to rape her but a passing cyclist raised the alarm and scared him off.
While Kajue escaped on a mountain bike, his victim remembered the distinctive script of the large tattoos on his arms.
Police matched the description with a database they keep of offenders' distinctive features and used the evidence to convict Kajue of sexual assault.
He was jailed for an indefinite period but will have to serve at least six years.
The case is reminiscent of an arrest last October when an aspiring criminal with his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck broke into a "bait car" packed with cameras.
"We get such excellent images from these cameras that there is often ”” and never more so than in this case ”” no doubt who the criminal is," Supt Ian Wylie was quoted by the BBC as saying.
"Criminals won't be tolerated in Bristol and we will keep catching them and bringing them before the courts."
Aarron Evans, an illiterate man of no fixed address, was sentenced to seven months in jail.
The capture car ”” known as a "honeypot" ”” is a common technique used by British police to catch criminals in the act.

Not exactly related, but shows that extra aide to determine identity makes sense.

The only problem is to prevent unauthorised and criminal use of the system.

Ageo · 3 February 2009

New World Order here we come!

I wonder if Obama supports this????

CoffeeKing · 4 February 2009

Wysiwyg said:
So there isn`t a great deal of concern over the possible introduction of RFID in the U.S. and then other parts of the world?

All that is needed is acceptance and that isn`t going to happen I would think.But what if your employer requires you to have a chip implant for security reasons?The plot thickens.

California has introduced a law to deny employers being able to tag their workers.

Link to article.

Suppose you could put it where the sun don't shine, and if you have to scan in ...

Wysiwyg · 4 February 2009

CoffeeKing said:
Suppose you could put it where the sun don't shine, and if you have to scan in ...

That is f`ing hilarious poofee king.I`ve been rolling on the floor laughing for hours.

Wysiwyg · 4 February 2009

This academic is obviously sensationalising the chipping of humans and also has Christian religious beliefs so I don`t believe him.

Article produced 6 days ago.

All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.

"Microchipping I think will eventually become compulsory in the context of identification within the frame of national security," he said.

Nonsense.

Happy · 4 February 2009

Wysiwyg said:
This academic is obviously sensationalising the chipping of humans and also has Christian religious beliefs so I don`t believe him.

Article produced 6 days ago.

All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.

Nonsense.

I suspect that microchipping will not be necessary as mind reading devices will be available within few generations.

Allowing crime prevention before it happens.

Ageo · 4 February 2009

Happy said:
I suspect that microchipping will not be necessary as mind reading devices will be available within few generations.

Allowing crime prevention before it happens.

If anyone has watched the old classic "Demoilitian Man" with Stallone will appreciate that the movie basically has alot of things that people want today.

Pretty accurate description of the future i reckon.

DJZ · 4 February 2009

Ageo said:
If anyone has watched the old classic "Demoilitian Man" with Stallone will appreciate that the movie basically has alot of things that people want today.

Pretty accurate description of the future i reckon.

I bloody well hope not Ageo, I'm not giving up my freedoms for a false guise of Security, and yes there are many people in the USA that are aware and most definitely against this technology, the ability for it to be misused is huge.

The Ability to trade freely with no third party involved is at the core of Human Freedom, with this chip and the consequent cashless society all being governed by one international, body takes away that Freedom and hence the basic freedoms of life, I would rather die fighting than have what Freedom is left taken from me!

The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions, and

Those who sacrifice Their Freedoms for Temporary security deserve nor will receive either.

CoffeeKing · 4 February 2009

Happy said:
I suspect that microchipping will not be necessary as mind reading devices will be available within few generations.

Allowing crime prevention before it happens.

Just like in the movie "Minority report" (loved the metal spiders)

rub92me · 4 February 2009

I think I might already have one. Whenever I call my wife on Friday to tell her I'm working late, she manages to hunt me down to the pub I'm calling from. :

Happy · 5 February 2009

CoffeeKing said:
Just like in the movie "Minority report" (loved the metal spiders)

It all revolves around trust and appears that those who would fight to death for freedom above security prove the point.

All we have to do is figure out how can we restore trust?
The rest will be easy, even handshake agreements would be able to come back on large scale.

For starters, lies would have to be looked at from different perspective.
Imagine policy - 1 lie and you are struck out.

Impossible to imagine, right?

Smurf1976 · 5 February 2009

Stan 101 said:
This technology was being used in select night clubs in Brazil in 2005. It seemed quite popular but maybe it was just a faze.

cheers,

You have to have something permanently implanted in your body just to get into a club?

It makes the shoes and shirt brigade on the doors here in Australia seem rather trivial in comparison.

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