Scott, I agree, unfortunately the following was on the front page of the Miami Herald (Florida). Reg, I am glad that you posted the info on nukes. That truly is scary. But anyway, excerpts from the Miami Herald.
Headline: An ID idea: Microchips under your skin
....is one of 2500 people who want to get computer ships implanted in their bodies.
...is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. If he wanders off or gets hurt, family members worry that medical workers won't know who he is or that he's allergic to penicillin. Or that he has a recently implanted pacemaker.
The solution to such emergencies, says Palm Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is the VeriChip.
The $200 microchip can be encoded with information such as a person's name and Social Security number and a list of medical allergies, then injected under the skin. Emergency room workers would then use scanners to read the chip.
"It might sound regimental, but aren't we in that type of world these days?"
...Applied Digital is not the only company implanting computer chips.
...AVID, in Norco, Calif, tracks pets implanted with its microchips; and Trovan, in Santa Barbara, Calif., has implantable transponders in more than 300 zoos worldwide.
For all the arguments against chip implants turning people into human LoJacks, the fate of kidnapped Wall Street Jourhnal reporter Daniel Pearl is an example of how safety issues may override privacy concerns. Richard Sullivan, CEO of Applied Digital Solutions, also suggests another application: helping track undocumented immigrants.
The problem could be solved, he said if "people were required to be chipped or had some combination of a device requiring them to be scanned and monitored at all times."
"I think it's not unreasonable to ask people who want to come to work in the country that they respect the rights of people who are citizens in the United State," Sullivan said.
VeriChip is the next step in the evolution of another Applied Digital product called Digital Angel, a pager-like gadget that uses global positioning system tracking to keep tabs on people, and biosensors that monitor vital signs. Digital Angel can be turned off by the wearer or by an administrator, depending on how it's programmed. VeriChip can be removed only surgically.
Los Angeles parolees are being monitored by Digital Angel through a three-year pilot program. Implanted microchips currently track more than 86000 pets in Florida, as well as livestock and zoo animals. Experts predict that if trackable chip implants become widely available, there will be a long line of military personnel, diplomats, corporate executives, foreign correspondents and celebrities waiting to "get chipped."
This month Brazilian government official Antonio de Cunha Lima, the first distributor of the VeriChip in Brazil, will be implanted with the chip.
....But not everyone will want to become a human bar code.
"If a government ever requires a technology like this on a segment of its population, then I think it's going to be very provocative," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Denver-based Privacy Foundation.
For example, airlines could encourage demand for chips by allowing people with implants to get faster security clearance. "It can become commercially coercive," Keating said.
...Applied Digital needs FDA approval sooner rather than later. Amid a major corporate restructuring, the company has lost more than $267 million in the past year.
...the VeriChip will replace the different types of identification used, the family says. And, unlike your wallet, it can't be stolen. Said Jeffrey Jacobs, who suffers from several illnesses, including Hodgkins disease: "I thinks it's going to increase privacy."
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Scott, I agree, unfortunately the following was on the front page of the Miami Herald (Florida). Reg, I am glad that you posted the info on nukes. That truly is scary. But anyway, excerpts from the Miami Herald.
Headline: An ID idea: Microchips under your skin
....is one of 2500 people who want to get computer ships implanted in their bodies.
...is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. If he wanders off or gets hurt, family members worry that medical workers won't know who he is or that he's allergic to penicillin. Or that he has a recently implanted pacemaker.
The solution to such emergencies, says Palm Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is the VeriChip.
The $200 microchip can be encoded with information such as a person's name and Social Security number and a list of medical allergies, then injected under the skin. Emergency room workers would then use scanners to read the chip.
"It might sound regimental, but aren't we in that type of world these days?"
...Applied Digital is not the only company implanting computer chips.
...AVID, in Norco, Calif, tracks pets implanted with its microchips; and Trovan, in Santa Barbara, Calif., has implantable transponders in more than 300 zoos worldwide.
For all the arguments against chip implants turning people into human LoJacks, the fate of kidnapped Wall Street Jourhnal reporter Daniel Pearl is an example of how safety issues may override privacy concerns. Richard Sullivan, CEO of Applied Digital Solutions, also suggests another application: helping track undocumented immigrants.
The problem could be solved, he said if "people were required to be chipped or had some combination of a device requiring them to be scanned and monitored at all times."
"I think it's not unreasonable to ask people who want to come to work in the country that they respect the rights of people who are citizens in the United State," Sullivan said.
VeriChip is the next step in the evolution of another Applied Digital product called Digital Angel, a pager-like gadget that uses global positioning system tracking to keep tabs on people, and biosensors that monitor vital signs. Digital Angel can be turned off by the wearer or by an administrator, depending on how it's programmed. VeriChip can be removed only surgically.
Los Angeles parolees are being monitored by Digital Angel through a three-year pilot program. Implanted microchips currently track more than 86000 pets in Florida, as well as livestock and zoo animals. Experts predict that if trackable chip implants become widely available, there will be a long line of military personnel, diplomats, corporate executives, foreign correspondents and celebrities waiting to "get chipped."
This month Brazilian government official Antonio de Cunha Lima, the first distributor of the VeriChip in Brazil, will be implanted with the chip.
....But not everyone will want to become a human bar code.
"If a government ever requires a technology like this on a segment of its population, then I think it's going to be very provocative," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Denver-based Privacy Foundation.
For example, airlines could encourage demand for chips by allowing people with implants to get faster security clearance. "It can become commercially coercive," Keating said.
...Applied Digital needs FDA approval sooner rather than later. Amid a major corporate restructuring, the company has lost more than $267 million in the past year.
...the VeriChip will replace the different types of identification used, the family says. And, unlike your wallet, it can't be stolen. Said Jeffrey Jacobs, who suffers from several illnesses, including Hodgkins disease: "I thinks it's going to increase privacy."
Hmmmmmm
Headline: An ID idea: Microchips under your skin
....is one of 2500 people who want to get computer ships implanted in their bodies.
...is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. If he wanders off or gets hurt, family members worry that medical workers won't know who he is or that he's allergic to penicillin. Or that he has a recently implanted pacemaker.
The solution to such emergencies, says Palm Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions, is the VeriChip.
The $200 microchip can be encoded with information such as a person's name and Social Security number and a list of medical allergies, then injected under the skin. Emergency room workers would then use scanners to read the chip.
"It might sound regimental, but aren't we in that type of world these days?"
...Applied Digital is not the only company implanting computer chips.
...AVID, in Norco, Calif, tracks pets implanted with its microchips; and Trovan, in Santa Barbara, Calif., has implantable transponders in more than 300 zoos worldwide.
For all the arguments against chip implants turning people into human LoJacks, the fate of kidnapped Wall Street Jourhnal reporter Daniel Pearl is an example of how safety issues may override privacy concerns. Richard Sullivan, CEO of Applied Digital Solutions, also suggests another application: helping track undocumented immigrants.
The problem could be solved, he said if "people were required to be chipped or had some combination of a device requiring them to be scanned and monitored at all times."
"I think it's not unreasonable to ask people who want to come to work in the country that they respect the rights of people who are citizens in the United State," Sullivan said.
VeriChip is the next step in the evolution of another Applied Digital product called Digital Angel, a pager-like gadget that uses global positioning system tracking to keep tabs on people, and biosensors that monitor vital signs. Digital Angel can be turned off by the wearer or by an administrator, depending on how it's programmed. VeriChip can be removed only surgically.
Los Angeles parolees are being monitored by Digital Angel through a three-year pilot program. Implanted microchips currently track more than 86000 pets in Florida, as well as livestock and zoo animals. Experts predict that if trackable chip implants become widely available, there will be a long line of military personnel, diplomats, corporate executives, foreign correspondents and celebrities waiting to "get chipped."
This month Brazilian government official Antonio de Cunha Lima, the first distributor of the VeriChip in Brazil, will be implanted with the chip.
....But not everyone will want to become a human bar code.
"If a government ever requires a technology like this on a segment of its population, then I think it's going to be very provocative," said Stephen Keating, executive director of the Denver-based Privacy Foundation.
For example, airlines could encourage demand for chips by allowing people with implants to get faster security clearance. "It can become commercially coercive," Keating said.
...Applied Digital needs FDA approval sooner rather than later. Amid a major corporate restructuring, the company has lost more than $267 million in the past year.
...the VeriChip will replace the different types of identification used, the family says. And, unlike your wallet, it can't be stolen. Said Jeffrey Jacobs, who suffers from several illnesses, including Hodgkins disease: "I thinks it's going to increase privacy."
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