Posted on 02/13/2006 8:17:21 PM PST by tgambill
Tiny silicon chips were embedded into two workers who volunteered to help test the tagging technology at a surveillance equipment company, an official said Monday.
The Mexico attorney general's office implanted the so-called RFIDs — for radio frequency identification chips — in some employees in 2004 to restrict access to secure areas. Implanting them in the workers at CityWatcher.com is believed to be the first use of the technology in living humans in the United States.
Sean Darks, chief executive of the company, also had one of the chips embedded.
"I have one," he said. "I'm not going to ask somebody to do something I wouldn't do myself. None of my employees are forced to get the chip to keep their job."
The chips are the size of a grain of rice and a doctor embedded them in the forearm just under the surface of the skin, Darks said.
They work "like an access card. There's a reader outside the door; you walk up to the reader, put your arm under it, and it opens the door," Darks said.
Darks said the implants don't enable CityWatcher.com to track employees' movements.
"It's a passive chip. It emits no signal whatsoever," Darks said. "It's the same thing as a keycard."
CityWatcher.com has contracts with six cities to provide cameras and Internet monitoring of high-crime areas, Darks said. The company is experimenting with the chips to identify workers with access to vaults where data and images are kept for police departments, he said.
The technology predates World War II, but has appeared in numerous modern adaptations, such as tracking pets, vehicles and commercial goods at warehouses.
After Hurricane Katrina, as body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied, some morgue workers in Mississippi used the tiny computer chips to keep track of unidentified remains.
Mmm...silicon chips.
'and a doctor embedded them in the forearm'
Look who's gonna learn how to eat with their feet.
""I have one," he said. "I'm not going to ask somebody to do something I wouldn't do myself. None of my employees are forced to get the chip to keep their job.""
Just like seat belts not being a primary offense and the SS number not being for identification purposes.
Remind all the nanny staters that it'll save children’s lives, as well as all the money saved on tracking pedophiles and finding missing children and there ya go. We got ourselves a fun new law.
Lol, yeah, just like, "This won't hurt a bit."
REALLY stupid to broadcast WHERE the things are, I'd say. I thought maybe iris technology would be useful, then I considered how that MIGHT be abused! Yikes. Having some kind of card still seems the most useful.
Yeha. No big deal. Got me a big one---In my shoulder. (get it?)
Don't worry, soon this type of thing will be required to vote Democrat.
..and what's wrong with a keycard?? You don't think a human could take it out and give it to another person if
it is embedded in the skin? What if it gives off poison or gets into blood vessel (like a blood clot) and gets into
other parts of the body?? Sounds like something Nazi or
ignorant person. God help them!!!!
6...6,6. The Number of the Beast. - Bruce Dickinson
:) ah ha.....point made. Taking baby steps. Notice how they downplay the purpose and characterics of the device.
Cool.
I want one to go with my cortical jack.
Yet.
I like the way (seatbelts NOT being a primary offense originally) fits in with MY argument about "the rules" being changed in time.
Reminds me so much of Revelations. Y'know, the part about not being able to buy or sell.
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