Micro-chipping

[Dan]

As quoted from Ctrl+Alt+Del

Originally Posted by Tim Buckley

My puppy went in for surgery last week to get spayed. When I dropped her off, they asked me if I wanted to get her microchipped as well. I told them she'd been microchipped already when she was a baby. If she ever gets lost, all animal services has to do is pass a scanner over her, and immediately they'll know where she lives, and how to contact me. It got me thinking a little bit... how come we don't microchip humans?

I mean, obviously we have the technology. Aside from the obvious uses, such as identifying lost children and corpses (hopefully not one and the same), they could be used for simple identification. We could do away with licenses alltogether. Want to buy alcohol? Just swipe your wrist under a scanner.

Obviously the majority of the people who would object (unless there's something I'm not thinking of) would be the people who have something to hide. Criminals, illegal immigrants, or kids who want to use fake ID's. Which begs the question: do we really care about what these people want anyway? I certainly don't. In fact, I'm all for making it harder for criminals to hide.

Now, I'm not saying we should go as far as being tracked via satellite from space or anything. No cameras in our home or having our emails read. I'm talking strictly about identification, which we all have to carry anyway. But we have to carry lots of it. Our license, our medical insurance cards, our social security card, emergency contact, etc. How many times have you gone out and forgotten your license? It's happened to me a few times.

What if you were in a car accident alone, knocked unconscious and none of your identification carries some important information, like your blood type or medical allergies? What if the EMT could scan your microchip and have that information immediately, along with family members to call and notify?

You could be chipped at a young age, and when you pass your driver's test, they just update the information in the database to reflect that you are legal to drive. And again, when you turn eighteen, or twenty one, the chip will reflect that.

What about if you had to swipe your chip when buying age restricted materials, and your random chip number was attached to the purchase somehow. So when a mother goes and buys her son a bloody, violent M-rated game, and then turns around and starts +++++ing that the game is violent, we can go to the record and say "Hey moron, YOU bought it for him. Wake up, you stupid shit."

Like I said, unless you're trying to hide something (and there are no legitimate, legal reasons to carry a fake ID), identification is something we all already deal with. So why not make it easier and more efficient?

It's just something I was thinking about.

If you want to weigh in and discuss (maturely and intelligently, please), instead of emailing me, head over to this forum thread I made. As much as I love getting the email, I end up responding with the same thing over and over and over again, and also nobody but me reads your views. This way you can hear other people's points of view.

Unless everyone agrees with me, which would make for a pretty boring discussion. But that never happens anyway.

I personally think this is a good idea, I mean as long as they don't include a GPS tracking system where they know EXACTLY where we are at all times I really see no point in not having it.

Discuss.

[peterska2]

It would be useful for finding missing persons or catching criminals on the run

(hang on, don't I come into at least one of those categories?)

[AN-net]

LOL!! i guess you nor that person have heard the recent news. a bunch of college students, or something similar, were able to hack these 'micro chips', known as RFID tags, which were guaranteed secure by Verichip, the maker of the human implanted RFID tags. also RFIDs are not meant for humans as it is not yet approved by the FDA and hopefully will never be. they dont need a GPS to track you. the 'convience' use of it is almost like having a shadow following you. credit card purchases, tolls, metal detectors, DMV, door entry, banking, hospitals. also this would make identity theft so much easier.

the way the U.S. is going we are going to have a national ID soon, which then I think Canada will look alot more appealing. Go ACLU!

story found on the hacking:
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/chan...contentid=3740

edit:
also i love the education of this individual, his comics are so high brow and hilarious. he doesn't even know the correct term for it, its called an RFID tag. not micro-chipping. geez some people shouldn't have websites or followers.

[peterska2]

They keep discussing it here in the UK too and are bringing it in the back door.. Then again, they always do that with stuff. Best to just use cash and not have a passport or drivers licence. That way you can dissappear a lot easier.

[AN-net]

actually i am wrong on the FDA, damn it we're doomed, they did approve the use of RFID tags in humans for medical reasons. however they did note adverse reactions and other complications with implantation.

More from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID

[TruthElixirX]

No. I will not get chipped. Period. I am not a criminal, I have nothing to hide, I do not use fake I.D.'s. You're not chipping me.

[peterska2]

You sound a bit paranoid there Truth

They have probably been doing it for years without telling us anyway. You never truely know what they give you when you are knocked out anyway.

[Dean C]

Depends where the chip goes tbh

[Chris M]

I personally think it would be a good idea - It would absolve the need for cash or credit cards, drivers licences and passports etc...

Even tracking to a certain degree; Tracking could only be done by the police or a similar authority to check where you are and maybe even where you have been...

Chris

[AN-net]

Originally Posted by Chris M

I personally think it would be a good idea - It would absolve the need for cash or credit cards, drivers licences and passports etc...

Even tracking to a certain degree; Tracking could only be done by the police or a similar authority to check where you are and maybe even where you have been...

Chris

well in America, the government has proven not to be in the interests of its citizens but in of its self.