<p>Come on Barrons and Xiggi and FountainSiren and Driver, go get you computer chip so you can be tracked on the job, so you don’t go in the wrong door-</p>
<p>do you want it in your nexk, your hand or your forehead!!! or the more common arm</p>
<p>People with the chip can breeze through security and board the plane ahead of everyone else. People without the chip must wait in a long line, remove their shoes and will be subject to pat-down body searches… Ready to “take the chip”??</p>
<p>Yeah, wainting in a line is so much worse than have a government chip with all your data implanted in your flesh, yeah, taking off my shoes, omg, that 5 minutes of irratation so the goverment can out a forighen object with who knows what on it in my flesh</p>
<p>nope not ready to be implanted</p>
<p>and since the government is SO GOOD at everything it does, incloding vetting its own employees with fake credientials, I am SURE they will not make any errors and let the wrong person on without searhing them</p>
<p>So this could have lots of implications…which girl, whose baby…this is all too much to contemplate with a straigh face. Next they’ll be able to zap folks who go to the wrong places.</p>
<p>^
lol. One of my high school teachers always talked about how she wanted wired chairs so she could zap misbehaving students.</p>
<p>I agree with CGM; this is a bit freaky. A teen series (2099) came out a few years ago. Not well-written, but interesting. One of the weirdest things about the books were the chips everyone had- no more ID, credit cards, etc. Just swipe your chip. :eek:</p>
<p>I have to carry a little card around to park my car and another to get into my office. I would not mind getting a little implant so I did not have to carry around more cards. I don’t find it scary as they already record every time I use either card–it’s the same thing in a handier format–sign me up–especially if it will be able to add skipping the security line at airports. I’m looking forward to that.</p>
<p>(Shudders!) That’s truly scarey. They may SAY that this kind of technology will not be used to track people’s whereabouts, but this is definitely a slippery slop kind of technology. Someone is bound to advocate putting GPS chips in children to “insure their safety against abductions, child preditors, and to track runaways”. Who wouldn’t want to keep kids safe? And while we’er at it, why not install tracking chips inside prisoners, parolees, repeat offenders and recidivist sexual predators, and ALL aliens as a condition for entering into the country, and persons belonging to government identified “radical political groups”. Heck, why not just electronically monitor all U.S. citizens? That way, if a crime is committed, law enforcement will easily be able to tell if X, Y, or Z was at the scene of the crime? And let’s put every conceivable type of “useful” information in those chips while we’re at it. DNA code, complete medical history, driving record, police record, political affiliation, school transcripts and work history and income? After all, what’s the problem if you’ve got nothing to hide?</p>
<p>Can anyone say, “mark of the beast?”. (Yeah, I know. All that bible stuff is just hogwash, right?)</p>
<p>Poetsheart is right - we can always increase “information,” security, public safety, crime enforcement, or a variety of other policy goals by trampling on fundamental civil liberties. Just doesn’t mean we should do it.</p>
<p>I’m not signing up for it myself, but why does this creep you out when we have had monitoring bracelets on convicts (like Martha Stewart) for a long time, and when you sign up for an EZpass they can tell where you’ve been, or if you rent a car with a GPS they can track you? And if you will put a microchip in your dear beloved pet… why NOT your child?</p>
<p>because it isn’t IN YOUR BODY!!! and you can’t see it and we are to Trust that it is doing what they say</p>
<p>yeah, trust</p>
<p>“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark…” just a wee quote to keep the debate lively</p>
<p>and by the way, people years ago thought, no, we would never implant chips in people to track them…egad</p>
<p>I would let them implant anything in my body that they wanted to, so I wouldn’t have to lose anything. I wish there was an implantable cell phone, I would get it, although look like a psycho talking to myself.</p>
<p>Problem becomes that if these embedded chips can be read remotely, even if encrypted, skimmers can come in to a crowded environment, pull thousands of data points, and decrypt at will. It’s certainly not impossible to pull the data remotely off a security chip using a high powered antenna, duplicate it on to a new chip. The new US passports certainly can be skimmed off of, but people don’t have them on the person all the time - only at airports and other ports. In this instance, ths chip is ALWAYS on the person, thus, allowing the skimmer to pull at any time.</p>
<p>It’s akin to walking around with your social security number, credit card numbers, and drivers license number on the back of your t-shirt.</p>