Next: An ID Chip Planted in Your Body?

Wash Post ^ | December 19, 2001 | Robert O'Harrow Jr.

[Jethro Tull]

Next: An ID Chip Planted in Your Body?

A New Jersey surgeon has embedded under his skin tiny computer chips that can automatically transmit personal information to a scanner, a technology that his employer hopes will someday be widely used as a way to identify people.

[billbears]

We're at war now.
If you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear.
The grownups are in charge now.
It's for the children.

LOL!! Keep telling yourself that

[Destructor]

The Liberal Democrat's dream come true. Total control of every aspect of people's lives via a Subcutaneous ID Chip! Now the nosy bastards will be able to track people wherever they go 24/7!! Welcome to the new millennium where privacy is a thing of the past.

[detsaoT]

I find it amusing that this technology already exists, and is in use for animals right now. I also find it amusing that the animal id/recovery chips just HAPPEN to have enough digits to store an entire social-security number in them... Guess I wasn't s'posed to notice that the animal chip program was just a test run to see if it's possible to do it to humans.

Scumsucking liberals are helping bring about the End Times?

:) ttt

[harpseal]

They'll have to plant it in me after they plant me...

:ikewise and as long as I'm going at their insistence a few of those doing the demanding should come along.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[History is truth]

I'm not arguing the merits for or against the ID chip, just point out the fallacy of some comments. In order to detect the chip, it must be within 18 inches or less of a scanner. Those damned scanners are going to get in the way if they have enough of them to track everyone all the time. We won't have to worry about unemployment. Everyone will have a job making chips, implanting them, operating the tracking systems or manufacturing the scanners and computers they connect to. LMAO.. Use a little common sense people!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

It's just the "Living Document Conservative" mantra defending the "Patriot" Act.

[t-shirt]

"Although the system has been in development for a couple of years, company officials said they were uneasy about implanting the chips in people until recently, fearing there might be a backlash from civil libertarians and others."
from the Post story

[Cap'n Crunch]

How do JT?

I've got 9 to go on 25 and out. My wife has a relative that retired a few years ago from NYPD. Great guy. Got alot of war stories.

[Cap'n Crunch]

I suppose I'll be an outlaw then too. I'm not taking no chip and I'm not taking any National ID card.

My tin foil hat will be right under my ballistic helmet.

[t-shirt]

Excerpts from LA Times:

Other potential applications would put the chips in the role of an ultimate ID, capable of performing many of the roles that are performed by keys and ATM cards.

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"I'd be shocked if within 10 years you couldn't get a chip implanted that would unlock your house, start your car and give you money,"

[VA Advogado]

I'm still waiting on the virtual sex chip.

[Lazamataz]

They'll have to plant it in me after they plant me...

Dude, these people are not stupid.

You note that in most cases, they do NOT try to pluck the guns out of your hands -- they just ban 'future ownership' or 'new manufacture' of this and that or the other thing. They know they confiscating door-to-door -- at least at this time -- would be a bloody endeavor.

Same thing here. They won't require YOU to get the chip.

Just your kid. Or your grandkid. And by then they'll have perfected it so it lodges someplace inconvenient to remove -- like behind your skull or something.

I weep for the future generations of Borglike Drones. Human society will not so much resemble it's present state, as it will a hive of bees or a colony of ants, someday. And at that time, we will have ceased to be humans.

[Lazamataz]

16 years. You've got war stories y'self. :o)

[StriperSniper]

Some of the stock msg. brds. were saying this was the next INVN, boy are they dreaming! But this may be a good play up to $1-2. I bought puts on INVN instead today at the close, looks like a short term breakdown. Mid $20's by Fri. then back to new highs. There is only 8.8 Mil shares in the float, almost 30% short as/of Nov 8.

[t-shirt]

Why don't you get one planted in your fore head, you'd probably like that.

[VA Advogado]

Why don't you get one planted in your fore head, you'd probably like that.

With my larger than normal brain there's not a lot of extra room up there. Now you on the other hand. . . . (rattle rattle)

Were you a test dummy in a former life?

[t-shirt]

No, sometimes I've been a test dummy in this life.