2 Workers Have Chips Embedded Into Them

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This is just simply cool. Of course I'm sure someone will eventually abuse this but until then a great new technology.

mark of the beast! mark of the beast!

We've brought the rapture on!

(okay, maybe not)

While it may be "passive like a key card", you can leave the key card at home if you don't want to be tracked.
How, may I ask, are you going to take the chip out when you don't want to be tracked.?

Given the ability to misuse technology - See the techdirt. com post about the Dept of Justice shopping for a Judge ( and finding one eventually) to let them use cellphone info for tracking - although the officials had claimed it "would never be used for this purpose"...

Need I say more?

Creepy! Big Brother really freaks me out.

Kinda cool... Wonder how long till our Name other info are stored on them...

this is really stupid... 2 idiots volunteered to have our rights stripped away. First this company, next?
If they quit there job, how does it come out? does it? oh.. the inhumanity.

My prof at UBC (google Nancy Nisbet) implanted chips into her hand as a political "art" piece. I guess this is the inevitable next step..

O, the human being, what a joke, finally coming true...again...

Our "parents" Adam and Eve were caught trading souls for their own benefit and expelled from a highly secured location...These kids that we are are surely following on their footsteps, but our punishment this time might not be to get some clothes on and extenuate ourselves through life, but something slightly improved...it's just one more of all those "easy" steps we need to take to truly be ourselves...

All in the name of purification...

I think RFID is indeed the mark of the beast. Look at what all has been using RFID and everything that will be using it in the next few years.. I mean this RFID technology is the closest reality to the mark I have ever seen.. I think it is time to learn how to get around this technology for our own sake.

Let me see, what should this chip be called? Hmmm...
RFID model 659?
After a few more versions...

This may be interesting, but it's certainly not pioneering. Professor Kevin Warwick (of Reading University here in the UK) had a subdermal RFID chip implanted back in 1998. At present, he has many more fascinating implants, including things like serial ports wired directly into parts of his nervous system... If you visit his web site, you can read about his Project Cyborg (it really is fascinating).

What I think RFID needs is a swipeable device which you can pass over any RFID chip to 'turn it off' - there needs to be some kind of physical switching device which can be used to disable the chips, maybe even at the molecular level, a restructuring of the pathways - that's probably the main missing link in making RFID more acceptable as a workable global technology.

There seems to be a big push toward using RIFD in many applications. Originally used to track inventory both in transit and in storage, it only makes sense to use it to track movement and access. I have worn a RFID enabled security badge before, but I was able to take it off when I left work. This does create a security risk for the company, as the badge could be lost or stolen. However, it is also a privacy risk when a RFID tag is implanted into someone.

The RFID the article talked about is probably a passive device, as it seems too small to be an active one (active devices have their own power supply). If it is a passive device, it cannot be turned off, only shielded.

I wonder if in the future, the mark of someone wanting privacy will be wearing a band around their arm?