Human ID chips get under my skin
Business Week
by David H. Holtzman
02/12/08
While it’s easy to reject the notion of placing little ID chips inside humans as an ominous Orwellian invasion of individual rights, I suspect it’s inevitable that in my lifetime we will all have some kind of computerized implants. My problem is not with the technology … My concern stems from my lack of trust in institutions and lack of belief that the technology will be forever restricted to beneficial, socially acceptable uses. … I can think of countless initiatives that could be launched to make use of a sufficiently large group of chipped people … outfitting firearms with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader and requiring gun owners to be chipped to fire their weapon (like existing thumbprint locks)...
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/feb2008/tc20080211_165324.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ID+chips
by David H. Holtzman
02/12/08
While it’s easy to reject the notion of placing little ID chips inside humans as an ominous Orwellian invasion of individual rights, I suspect it’s inevitable that in my lifetime we will all have some kind of computerized implants. My problem is not with the technology … My concern stems from my lack of trust in institutions and lack of belief that the technology will be forever restricted to beneficial, socially acceptable uses. … I can think of countless initiatives that could be launched to make use of a sufficiently large group of chipped people … outfitting firearms with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader and requiring gun owners to be chipped to fire their weapon (like existing thumbprint locks)...
http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/feb2008/tc20080211_165324.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=RFID
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ID+chips
rudkla - 15. Feb, 12:17
