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Identity Tags Implanted Under Workers' Skin
AP via MSNBC.com ^
| 2-13-2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 02/14/2006 12:24:05 AM PST by Turbopilot
CINCINNATI - 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.
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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."
--snip--
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 666; identity; implant; rfid; tagging
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Bend over for your identity tag, comrade. It doesn't bother me that companies are experimenting with abusing their workers like this, as no one in their right mind would continue employment with such a company. But once big daddy government gets a whiff of this, prepare for it to become mandatory for all serfs citizens.
To: Turbopilot
I hate to tell ya where they put mine...
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posted on
02/14/2006 12:26:50 AM PST
by
Bender2
(Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often!)
To: Turbopilot
idiots... they'd have to drug me and tie me down to get one of those under my skin..
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posted on
02/14/2006 12:35:12 AM PST
by
Awestruck
(All the usual suspects)
To: Awestruck
As I said on another thread that had this same topic under discussion, in the (near) future this will be normal. On top of this the protests against such acts will basically be nonexistent. It will be like drug testing .....you either agree to it, or you don't get hired. Simple. Guess what decision the vast majority of people will take. It will not percolate everywhere (in the same way that not all firms have biometric hand scanners and multidigit PIN access numbers), but it will definitely make its way around.
And there will be hardly any sound of protest.
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posted on
02/14/2006 1:16:09 AM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Turbopilot
Over my cold dead body....
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posted on
02/14/2006 1:41:50 AM PST
by
Samwise
To: Turbopilot
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:01:41 AM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: Turbopilot
To: quietolong
And what does the conversion to digital TV have to do with chipping animals or people? That does not make sense.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:05:27 AM PST
by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: Turbopilot
Can I have mine on my right hand or my forehead?
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posted on
02/14/2006 3:13:30 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: spetznaz
It is the mark of the beast, and Christians WILL refuse to be microchipped.
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posted on
02/14/2006 4:30:55 AM PST
by
TaxRelief
(Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
To: TaxRelief
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posted on
02/14/2006 4:41:18 AM PST
by
normy
(Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
To: Turbopilot
Actually, if give the choice I would rather go the chip route than give the company my biometeric data like finger prints or retina scan data. The latter could be hacked out of their systems and once conpromised, you're screwed. You could always have the chip removed (or hack off your arm). I see the chip as being ultimately less invasive.
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posted on
02/14/2006 4:49:49 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
To: NonValueAdded
Who is the company and who did the owners contribute to in the last election?
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posted on
02/14/2006 6:03:00 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("We don't need POLITICIANS...we need STATESMEN.")
To: Turbopilot
Where am I?
In The Village.
What do you want?
Information.
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling.
We want information. Information. Information.
You won't get it.
By hook or by crook, we will.
Who are you?
The new Number 2.
Who is Number 1?
You are Number 6.
I am not a number — I am a free man!
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posted on
02/14/2006 6:04:08 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
To: advance_copy
Mark of the beast alert. Sounds like it to me. Scary.
To: NonValueAdded
It would be a sad day when having an RFID tag injected under your skin is the better option.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:13:10 AM PST
by
Turbopilot
(Nothing in the above post is or should be construed as legal research, analysis, or advice.)
To: TaxRelief; All
It depends...if they let you be chipped on the left forearm or back of the neck...it probably isn't the mark of the beast! If they totally demand the forehead or right hand with-out compromise...then Watch out!
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:57:57 AM PST
by
mdmathis6
(Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
To: Awestruck
idiots... they'd have to drug me and tie me down to get one of those under my skin..""
They will have to do that and more to get me ID's like that. A 5 part series of articles in the Sacramento Bee is running on the topic of Sex Offenders. They only have to report in once a year. The "violent" ones only have to report every 90 days.
Meanwhile- go to freerepublic story 1574414 about microchipping every dog, cat, horse, cow, goat, sheep, etc in the USA and that we have to report ALL movements off and on the "home property" of that animal.
Someone in the bearucracy has farr toooooo much time on their hands, and I will not comply.
To: Awestruck
idiots... they'd have to drug me and tie me down to get one of those under my skin.. To quote the Cockroach in MIB, "Your proposal is acceptable."
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posted on
02/14/2006 9:58:54 AM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: GAB-1955
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