Michigan Makes Worker Microchips Voluntary ... Wait, What?

Popular Mechanics ^ | 7/1/2020 | Courtney Linder

[Toughluck_freeper]

“It only operates short range”.

That doesn’t matter. It is a body modification.

How is that different from forcing me to wear a tattoo? Or a tattoo barcode?

How is that different from forcing people to wear an earring?

How about protection from self incrimination? The police can’t take my DNA, but now they can verify my identity from afar from a chip? What about fraud and criminal set ups? A criminal wears a copy of your chip and you are arrested?.

What about religious objection? Many interpret the apocalypse as indicating the end of the world will come when people are branded with a sign.

[Svartalfiar]

Passive RFID seems impractical for use in tracking. It’s range is too short. It could, at best, record when you pass through a doorway or pass close by a receiver.

You’d need to implant an active powered tag to actually track anyone from any distance, I’d think.

Yes, anything like this (many warehouses use RFID tracking on inventory coming in and out) is almost always going to need to be a passive chip. An active RFID is going to need some kind of power source like a battery. If it's implanted, what battery is small enough but strong enough to be implanted and still work? How do you change it out when it gets low? To get any kind of signal out farther than a couple inches, you need a pretty hefty power source. Are you just gonna have to wear an armband that holds a couple D-cells and plugs into a wire they leave sticking out of your arm?

[pabianice]

Every year DEC asked for donations to United. Every year I refused.

[AmericanMermaid]

I NEVER let them push me into that. Each year, my answer was no. But as for the microchip, this will become as forced as the stupid masks.

[AmericanMermaid]

Exactly. And He is beginning, slowly but surely, to separate us from the world.