I agree. Apart for all the theological "end times" stuff we could get into, this seems to me to be ripe for "identity" theft and abuse. I think people need to think hard and long about this (which they won't do). It sound cool and neat. Having your medical records in one place is one thing. Having all your information in the palm of your hand is a little bit more scarier. Personally I like my stuff being a little bit convoluted.
The "VeriChip" which is what the article is referring to has recently been proven it can be cloned.
"I will briefly describe the steps that I went through to duplicate an ID-only RFID tag using my proxmarkii device. We will be cloning a Verichip, which should not rationally make any of this more interesting but does."
http://cq.cx/verichip.pl
Apparently the company that just had two of their employees 'chipped' was not aware of that fact.
"No one I spoke with at Six Sigma Security or at CityWatcher knew that the VeriChip had been hacked," said McIntyre, author of a chapter titled "Hacking the Prox Card" for Simson Garfinkel's recent "RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy."
"They were also surprised to hear of VeriChip's downsides as a medical device," he added. "It was clear they weren't aware of some of the controversy surrounding the implant."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48760
Actually, there is even more problems then identity threft and theology.
All of your data goes into a corporate digital library by Monsanto Company.
http://nationalpropertyowners.org/nonais.html
Monsanto also enjoys patenting genes.
Funding for all these new microchiping is made possible by UN granting.
Grant monies give ownership to the NGOs for everything their monies touch.
Monsanto Foundations are one of the funders of the NGOs.
The theological issues are not limited to "end times" stuff either.
Leviticus 19:28
"Never cut your bodies in mourning for the dead or mark your skin with tattoos, for I am the LORD."
If a simple tattoo is forbidden, then surely an implant is too.
No, but your Big Brother does!
I don't get the impression that these particular chips have lots of personal information about the employees -- just the fact they are allowed into this high security room, and presumably something to idenfity each of them, so if something goes missing, there's a record of who was in the room.