Microchip implants raise privacy concern

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_hi_te/chipping_america

a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself — until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.
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The "chipping" of two workers with RFIDs — radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick — was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive data and images for police departments, a layer of security beyond key cards and clearance codes, the company said.

"To protect high-end secure data, you use more sophisticated techniques," Sean Darks, chief executive of the Cincinnati-based company, said. He compared chip implants to retina scans or fingerprinting. "There's a reader outside the door; you walk up to the reader, put your arm under it, and it opens the door."

Innocuous? Maybe.
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Police state and what the bible hinted at being stamped with numbers
is it coming with this Republican government it is

[Snarkoleptic]

1. They're great for pets...horrible idea for people.