Two employees have been injected with RFID chips this week as part of a new requirement to access their company’s datacenter.
Cincinnati based surveillance company CityWatcher.com created the policy with the hopes of increasing security in the datacenter where video surveillance tapes are stored. In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access, a release from spychips.com said on Thursday.
I wonder if other parts of the body would be more secure?
Thanks, Pat.
And if you leave the company for whatever reason, do they zap you with a Taser to scramble the chip?
Whatever happened to biometrics? Isn’t there another way to do this which is less invasive? I wonder if this would be a good way to track employees in the buildings.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey uses EZPASS tags to track cars inside their infrastructure. They could do this with people.
Looks like it’s time to find a new job…
They can’t track your movements with biometrics. This is part security, part management tool to make sure to don’t spend too much time in the can.
Oh! No!, Is this the mark of the beast foretold in Revelation of the Bible?
I would never work at such a place, and also does that not sound odd, Also this would not fly the Premillennial Christians would not go for it: “and those that did not recive the mark And they could not buy or sell” I am not a Premillennial but an Amillennial Christian.
I was just thinking. This ought to go over well with the whole “flouride-in-the-drinking-water” crowd…
If we hadn’t invaded Iraq, Saddam would probably have required this for all newborns.
Or Rove or Rumsfeld. Any one of the thugs AB CD thinks should be Prince Regent.
Hey, good picture too.
I feared this was coming when I first heard about RFIDs. We are in for one hell of a fight in keeping this from becoming a widespread practice. I am not optimistic that we are going to win it.
I can hear the arguments for it already. One of which will be: “We fingerprint our children in order to help find them if they are ever kidnapped. But the chances of locating them before they are harmed are sooo much greater if you have them implanted with RFID.”
They put the chip in your arm so the tin foil hats don’t interfere with the signal.
If by employee you mean CEO then I guess two employees do have the chips implanted. Otherwise it’s the CEO and one of the other employees.
This still has some disturbing implications, primarily with people who contract citywatcher.com to do thier security and make the implantation mandatory, but I think this is fairly benign use fo the technology.
Here is a link to an AP newswire story that is a little less biased.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Security_Chips.html
You don’t have to get one to keep your job but if you have to access the datacenter for your job how can you perform your job without it?
It sounds like a catch 22 I have seen before.
But done fear anything because…
Sorry all of you but “The Greys”, you know those aliens that abduct people and implant hi-tech objects into them, have a galactical patent on this type of technology. A galactical patent supercedes one from D.C. I just wonder how long before they sue. They will probably not sue on this planet but where the patent was filed so it looks like there is going to be a few more of these abductions and you might not come back.
Oh yeah they also got the land Tom Cruise bought on the moon before he did. Sorry Tom, you got screwed.