Office puts chips under staff's skin

BBC ^ | 29 January 2015 Last updated at 12:01 ET | Rory Cellan-Jones

[9thLife]

Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.

Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.

That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.

On the day of the building's official opening, the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too.

The whole process is being organised by a Swedish bio-hacking group which was profiled by my colleague Jane Wakefield recently. One of its members, a rather fearsome looking tattooist, inserted my chip.

[Sirius Lee]

You can cut a guy’s hand off, dig out the chip, and just palm it as you breeze past security. These people are idiots for the antichrist.

[Fred Hayek]

You want to chip me? I got a chip for you. 62 grains at 3000 ft/sec.

[9thLife]

I imagine there’ll be some kind of active tie-in with the subject’s DNA sequence.

[mrsmith]

Gross, obscene.

With chips there’s gotta be dip... where do they put that?

[444Flyer]

Satan is certainly desensitizing humanity to his end goal. Destroy as many souls and take them to Hell with him as he can. Stories like this further take humanity in this direction.

"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." [Rev 14:9-12]

[MHGinTN]

Naw, 230grains at eight hundred feet per second would be enough.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Ditto.

[BuffaloJack]

> Burglars no longer need to steal keys, pick locks or disable security systems. All they need to do now is find an employee and lop off a body part.

It’s easier than that. Some of the better chip readers can read the chip from several feet away. Just find a place in the parking lot, setup the reader and start stealing keys as the employees walk by your vehicle on the way in to work.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mark of The Beast. No Thanks.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Implant it in the butt of drunk drivers as part of their sentence. Require new cars sold in US to have sensors under drivers seat that shut them down if said chip sits there. Parole agents verify chip is still there periodically. In less time than we can grow new drivers to replace the ones they were killing, the drunks will only be able to drive old beaters, easily spotted by cops. The technology should work. It would increase the price of new cars and add one more potential malfunction to them, but in time it would prevent the costs caused by current repeat drunk drivers, which are not inconsequential. I'd want real automotive engineers to carefully evaluate the tech for practicality and for difficulty to bypass. I'd also want a good cost-benefit analysis done before legislating it.

I think it could work , but maybe I'm overlooking something. Of course I may be biased in favor of my concept by having had my car totaled by a driver's 2nd DUI conviction, with his 3rd coming within six months later. I wasn't hurt. But had I not been paying enough attention to modify our crash he'd have been spared his third by a vehicular manslaughter conviction. It shouldn't take that much to keep such off the road. Going through the legal system to enforce publicly passed legislation takes care of personal liberty concerns and they could also be judicially unchipped if lawmakers could find some appropriate criteria. We can't seem to put enough brains in the drunks to keep them from driving, much less from drinking. Maybe we can put the needed brains in our cars instead. I know some current plans prevent drunks from driving specific cars, but I don't want them driving any cars. Retrofitting the the whole fleet isn't reasonable although a court might mandate his family's vehicles be so equipped. But, unless Obama turns us into the next Cuba for classic cars normal fleet attrition would empower my plan.

[jespasinthru]

Witness this disturbing scenario: Suppose Microsoft or Google came out with a new Smartphone that made the current one obsolete. And suppose the only way you could access it is by getting a chip implanted in your left hand. Would you go for it, just to stay “in touch?” Would your children beg you to let them go for it? Interesting times ahead. Ain’t technology grand?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

.495 round ball would do wonders.

[MuttTheHoople]

[Carthego delenda est]

“Finally, they will eliminate the cards completely and the only way to conduct any financial transactions or get medical care will be if you have your chip...”

There’s way too much money and power involved in the illegal drug trade to go that route. For that reason, I suspect we’ll never move to a cashless system.

[MHGinTN]

I’ve got a Norinco 1911 that I have been planning on converting to the Rowland system, just for hoots of course. My home defense tool is a nice 20 gage auto I have made a few ‘modifications’ to, to hold several extra rounds. Someone should come up with a lifter that could be dropped into a Maverick 12 gage so it would handle the shorty rounds ... up the mag from four or five to eight or ten.

[SoFloFreeper]

Nope.

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Oh, it was just a response to a comment on another thread about chipping kids as a kidnap countermeasure.

It occured to me that when "they" were ready to start chipping us all the'd need to sell the idea.

So I imagined an advertising campaign, star athletes, golf, tennis, baseball, etc. saying "It's all in the wrist".

You know, seeing a 7-10 split being knocked down, the smug bowler eyes the camera and says "It's all in the wrist™!" Then the voiceover says "If Joe Bowldownski is injured, the doctors can treat him faster because his medical records are always with him". Cut to Joe with a couple hot babes buying drinks with a wave of the hand. A sly wink, and "It's all in the wrist™!"...

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Free Enterprize chips are inevitable no matter what anyone says, as well as one day chips embedded in hard core criminals although with criminals they need to prevent removal and/or detection somehow. An auto-kill safeguard perhaps.

The key to maintaining freedom is to prevent government mandates on law-abiding and ‘crime lite’ citizens.

[9thLife]

therein lies the key to power.

[9thLife]

There’s way too much money and power involved in the illegal drug trade to go that route. For that reason, I suspect we’ll never move to a cashless system.

Wasn't one of the complaints about Bitcoin its usefulness to the criminal element?