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Hospitals tagging babies with electronic chips,
Privacy advocates protest
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| January 15, 2008
| Jerome R. Corsi
Posted on 01/20/2008 9:39:53 PM PST by Coleus
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:39:54 PM PST
by
Coleus
To: Coleus
Either way the baby gets an identification anklet at the hospital. I don’t see the issue.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:43:48 PM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: Coleus
Privacy is a huge consideration.
Also there is the consideration for the hospital, and the parents.
There have been cases of ‘accidental swaps’ in the hospital, and cases of baby theft.
The chip could eliminate the potential lawsuits, and the potential loss of child or the child’s life due to kidnapping.
The question is, is it really a loss of privacy? How much privacy does a baby have?
What happens as the child grows could be a concern for us, as concerns privacy.
Will our children be tracked until their old age?
Will the chips last that long?
Questions,Questions, Questions.
Very few quick and easy answers.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:47:31 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Just saying what 'they' won't.)
To: Coleus
“Privacy Advocates”, my ass.
Sounds like a bunch of busybodies sticking their noses where they don’t belong.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:48:16 PM PST
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(QMC(SW) USN........ CG21 DD988 FFG34 PC6 ARS53)
To: UCANSEE2
"Will the chips last that long?"
These are not implants. They are simply bracelets with a chip, so whether they last or they don't is completely irrelevent. The bracelets never even leave the maternity ward, much less the hospital. This is much ado about nothing.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:50:23 PM PST
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(QMC(SW) USN........ CG21 DD988 FFG34 PC6 ARS53)
To: Coleus
When they start embedding the chips...
IIRC, they do (states or counties?) take a blood sample (DNA?) and ship it off to some far away depository without consent. I see that as a Privacy issue.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:52:16 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Sounds like a bunch of busybodies sticking their noses where they dont belong. ...which is the definition of government.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:52:49 PM PST
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
"This is much ado about nothing. "It's about WND click-through rates.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:55:53 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Right, not implants and since that is the case this sounds like a good idea.
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posted on
01/20/2008 9:57:56 PM PST
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
To: Coleus
It's an anklet, not an implant. Much ado about nothing. Mommy will snip off the anklet and her own wrist band when they get home.
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:02:37 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Rb ver. 2.0
But the baby also gets the privilege of a SS number!
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:02:43 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
The bracelets never even leave the maternity ward, much less the hospital. This is much ado about nothing.The hospital where I work uses the chips for maternity wards. The fear of mixup or abduction is very real, and liability is astronomical if something bad happens. There really are sickos out there who try to infiltrate maternity wards to swipe a kid.
In one case, there was a hospital-wide security alert when the system detected what looked like a baby leaving the unit, and heading towards the dumpsters. It turned out the mother did not report the baby's security anklet was loose, and just put it on her food tray, which was then taken away after lunch. The anklet was covered by something, so nobody noticed it until the system detected it leaving the premises.
While everybody had a laugh about it after things cooled down, it was taken as seriously as firefights outside the ER. We've had those, too.
This is a large Detroit hospital system, so just about any emergency that can be imagined has already happened at least once.
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:05:09 PM PST
by
300winmag
(Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
To: Coleus
I think I was switched at birth from rich parents to poor parents.
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:07:31 PM PST
by
umgud
To: umgud
I think I was switched at birth from rich parents to poor parents.Luckily, I had the opposite happen to me. You snooze, you lose.
To: 300winmag
I’m right with you.
I’m saying these so-called privacy advocates protesting the RFIDs are full of crap.
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:15:00 PM PST
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(QMC(SW) USN........ CG21 DD988 FFG34 PC6 ARS53)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. Sounds like another name for the Shoplifters Union.
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:17:13 PM PST
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(QMC(SW) USN........ CG21 DD988 FFG34 PC6 ARS53)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
"These are not implants. They are simply bracelets with a chip, so whether they last or they don't is completely irrelevent. The bracelets never even leave the maternity ward, much less the hospital. This is much ado about nothing."
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:17:42 PM PST
by
KantianBurke
("If you like President George W. Bush, you'll love Mike Huckabee,")
To: 300winmag
LOL
Up here a ‘wandering’ chip will lock all the ward doors, sound an alarm and all kinds of interesting things happen. Sensors in all hallways, doors and windows.
No mixed up babys of late - so it’s all good.
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:20:21 PM PST
by
ASOC
(The Captain doesn't choose the storm....)
To: MediaMole
Luckily, I had the opposite happen to me. You snooze, you lose.So.......... it was you!
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posted on
01/20/2008 10:26:51 PM PST
by
umgud
To: UCANSEE2
My Granddaughter, born on 19 Dec 2007, had one of these anklets. It was not an issue at all, and the anklet was removed prior to discharge.
An interesting thing was that if the infant’s anklet got outside of a certain “safe” area, an alarm would be sounded, the elevators and major doors would be locked, and security personnel would jump into action. The parents were warned not to get too close to the elevators or emergency exits with the baby as long as the device was activated.
I thought it was an excellent idea, and I don’t have any idea what these nuts are protesting about. I suspect they have never seen one or had the system explained to them. They probably think it is some sort of permanent RFID sysytem.
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posted on
01/20/2008 11:09:31 PM PST
by
coldoc
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