Posted on 02/12/2006 4:28:09 PM PST by wagglebee
An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.
Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries.
RFID chips – inexpensive radio transmitters that give off a unique identifying signal – have been implanted in pets or attached to goods so they can be tracked in transit.
“There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered,” said Liz McIntyre, who campaigns against the use of identification technology.
But Sean Darks, chief executive of CityWatcher, said the glass-encased chips were like identity cards. They are planted in the upper right arm of the recipient, and “read” by a device similar to a cardreader.
“There’s nothing pulsing or sending out a signal,” said Mr Darks, who has had a chip in his own arm. “It’s not a GPS chip. My wife can’t tell where I am.”
The technology’s defenders say it is acceptable as long as it is not compulsory. But critics say any implanted device could be used to track the “wearer” without their knowledge.
VeriChip – the US company that made the devices and claims to have the only chips that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration – said the implants were designed primarily for medical purposes.
So far around 70 people in the US have had the implants, the company said.
Doesn't mean that you didn't wander in mistaking this for a statist forum. Your viewpoint is that of a good little government worshiper.
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"My point is that the 4th amendment prohibits unreasonable search and seizure - and RFID chips can (and will, at some point) be used to search you without your knowledge, and certainly without even probable cause. "
??? Is your local supplier going to start putting RFID's on his baggies full of dope at some time ?
>>>Your viewpoint is that of a good little government worshiper.
And yours of a good little militia freak who can't get over the outcome of the "war of northern agression." In case you didn't know it, OUR GOVERNMENT is the one fighting the terrorists, and GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (Soldiers) - NOT you little militia boys, are the ones DYING fighting them.
I'm not talking about suppliers of illicit drugs. I'm talking about having a chip implanted in your body that will tell anyone with the right equipment, including law enforcement, who you are (and potentially everything else about you) just because you came in range of their scanner.
You seem preoccupied with drugs. I'm talking about "being secure in one's person and papers".
>>>As a nasty aside -- based on recent election results - there are a lot more than 3% of our voting population that "needs killin"....
Can't argue with that.
That's right, only cammied backwater mountaineers with the Stars-'n'-Bars over their huts could possibly object to mandatory chipping of the entire citizenry.
What's your IQ? Be honest, now.
" I'm talking about having a chip implanted in your body that will tell anyone with the right equipment, including law enforcement, who you are (and potentially everything else about you) just because you came in range of their scanner."
Well first off, the chip dosen't tell them "everything else about you" - it's an ID that leads them to a data base which may or may not hold "everything else about you".
Just like your driver's license number does now.
... and IF you choose to live where you are forced to have this implanted, you have agreed to it allready.
"The car hesitated, or rather gave a faint whirring click, as if information, somewhere, was dropping card by punch-slotted card under electric eyes."
OMG! You can't possibly be that retarded, can you?
There isn't any limit on what government are eager to do to their citizens to remvoe their freedoms and unfortunately there are plenty of people like you who cheer them on.
>>>That's right, only cammied backwater mountaineers with the Stars-'n'-Bars over their huts could possibly object to mandatory chipping of the entire citizenry.
Just as only good little goverment worshippers could possibly give some benefit of the doubt to hard-working honest law enforcement officials when they say this might be really useful to us. Only a good little government worshipper could imagine that the Government is up to something OTHER than trying to jail all Americans.
>>>What's your IQ? Be honest, now.
High enough to detect the inherent hipocrisy I have so artfully exposed above. I didn't start the name calling, but while I AM intelligent, I aint too mature for a good ole fashun flame war.
Maybe you better think twice before trying to fit a shoe store in your mouth. There are a LOT of veterans on this board.
Are you a salesman, or just a demonstration model?
Right. That's a lot like the folks who buy a house out in farm country then try to outlaw the smell of bovine excrement - and telling the farmer that they agreed to the new restriction when he allowed the busybodies to buy their houses.
Congratulations on your leap of illogic.
>>>There are a LOT of veterans on this board.
Yes there are, and maybe you should ask THEM if they were "little government worshippers" because they trusted their CinC and did their duty.
Both to you.
Just a question--would you trust a Hillary Whitehouse/gov't with running a RFID program?
>>>Just a question--would you trust a Hillary Whitehouse/gov't with running a RFID program?
That's your crack speaking. That crank will never land in the oval office. And even if some dim does (it won't be her), WHO CONTROLS THE SUPREME COURT NOW? Who controls the Pentagon? Who controls the Congress?
Stop the paranoia
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