Posted on 01/20/2008 9:39:53 PM PST by Coleus
Over half the birthing facilities in Ohio are being equipped with an RFID infant protection system placed on infants at birth to prevent them from being abducted from the hospital or from being given to the wrong mother. "Standard protocol in the hospitals using the VeriChip system is that the baby receives an RFID anklet at birth and the mother receives a matching wristband," VeriChip spokeswoman Allison Tomek told WND. "The mothers are not asked."
VeriChip Corp., a publicly listed company headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla., is marketing though its wholly-owned subsidiary, Xmark, a HUGS brand tag-and-bracelet infant security system. The RFID tag is attached to an infant at birth by an ankle bracelet that is detected by monitors positioned throughout the hospital. Critics charge the VeriChip system is an intrusive technology solution to a problem that is rare.
"The VeriChip infant security system is a technology looking for a solution," said Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. "Baby snatching from hospital facilities is a diaper full of nonsense," Albrecht told WND.
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It’s an anklet, no big deal.
Call me back when they start branding new babies with ‘666’ on their foreheads.
If you wrap your head with tinfoil (shiney side out) you can elude the tracking device.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center use these bracelets.
The bracelets come off when the baby leaves the hospital.
“The bracelets come off when the baby leaves the hospital.”
And, when the child grows up, can they not have the chip removed?
My apologies to all.
I misunderstood the Title, and didn’t read the article fully.
I “assumed” the chips were implanted.
Maybe the last part of the title should have been....
Privacy Advocates protest needlessly.
This is a good thing. Anyone trying to leave with the baby will trigger an alarm. That’s a good thing.
What’s the problem here? The tracking device is on the hospital ID braclet, which any baby in the hospital should be wearing, and additionally makes it harder for a child to be taken without permission. WND is trying to over-dramatize a nonissue.
“Do you have a tin hat collection or something?”
Tin foil hat concession.
We have some very interesting Tin Foil Body Armor, if you are interested.
Oh please! There are implantable chips, they’re ankle bracelets. You cut them off when the baby goes home.
Oooohhhh...scary
Or when you steal the baby :)
IIRC, if you want to take the tax deduction for the little one, you need to apply for his SSN anyway. That happens regardless of whether or not the hospital uses RFID.
I know of a ‘scrapbooking’ grandma who (dispite being told not to) clipped baby’s anklet (for all important memory book). She had that, the little hat, some flowers, heading out to load the car...made it to the elevator. Many, many alarms went off; doors secured; security on high alert, local police alerted and in transit...and she still doesn’t ‘get’ that she caused a problem. This was a few years back...but now I think she must just be a WND reader :)
I’ll remember that next time I steal a baby. Thanks.
“There are implantable chips, they’re ankle bracelets.”
(good job...)
I knew what you meant, anyway.
If you didn’t see it I already acknowledged that I was mistaken.
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