Thank the God(dess)(e)(s) Of Your Choice, If Any, that we've got at least one semi-effective legislative body, somewhere in the United States. LA Times:
the state Senate passed legislation Thursday that would bar employers from requiring workers to have identification devices implanted under their skin.
State Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) proposed the measure after at least one company began marketing radio frequency identification devices for use in humans.
The devices, as small as a grain of rice, can be used by employers to identify workers. A scanner passing over a body part implanted with one can instantly identify the person.
"RFID is a minor miracle, with all sorts of good uses," Simitian said. "But we shouldn't condone forced 'tagging' of humans. It's the ultimate invasion of privacy."
So, how long before the regime Federalizes this issue and reverses this law, I wonder?
After it finds out the RFID chips in the new passports are a piece of shit, not because they're easily hacked, but because they break?
How can we run a system of mandatory IDs for all citizens and internal passport controls without RFID chips under the skin?
You can't. That's why "we" need them...
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An RFID chip implanted under the skin could be removed with a scalpel. And cosmetically replaced under a layer of false synthetic skin.
And a criminal type- or a private security contractor- might even have several chips for use in different circumstances, hacking the system only to maintain carefully controlled false identities. Or to incriminate the usual suspects with reprogrammed chips that placed the Right people at the Right place at the Right time, because GPS technology allows them to follow the chips anywhere and everywhere. Unless, of course, they're shielded.
Welcome to the world of Phillip K. Dick.
Not that anyone would ever think of doing that, of course.
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky
Everyone will have them someday
Eventually someone will propose that RFID's be implanted in all newborns, the argument being that they can be used to track down missing and abducted children. That's something the American people would go along with.
...for the rest of us
...for the rest of us