By Bill Christensen
Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips
in Immigrants
Sat Jun 3, 2006 23:57
LiveScience.com - Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants
http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060531_rfid_chips.html
Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants
By Bill Christensen
posted: 31 May 2006
07:04 pm ET
Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has
proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and
guest workers. He made the statement on national television on May 16.
Silverman was being interviewed on "Fox & Friends." Responding to the
Bush administration's call to know "who is in our country and why they
are here," he proposed using VeriChip RFID implants to register workers
at the border, and then verify their identities in the workplace. He
added, "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it...."
The VeriChip is a very small Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag
about the size of a large grain of rice. It can be injected directly
into the body; a special coating on the casing helps the VeriChip bond
with living tissue and stay in place. A special RFID reader broadcasts a
signal, and the antenna in the VeriChip draws power from the signal and
sends its data. The VeriChip is a passive RFID tag; since it does not
require a battery, it has a virtually unlimited life span.
RFID tags have long been used to identify animals in a variety of
settings; livestock, laboratory animals and pets have been "chipped" for
decades. Privacy advocates have long expressed concerns about this
technology being used in human beings.
In a related story, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe allegedly remarked
that microchips could be used to track seasonal workers to visiting U.S.
senators Jeff Sessions (Alabama) and Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania).
"President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have
microchips implanted in their bodies before they are permitted to enter
the US for seasonal work," Specter told Congress on April 25.
Implanting microchips in human beings for the purpose of monitoring is
not exactly news for science fiction fans; Alfred Bester wrote about
"skull bugs" in his 1974 novel The Computer Connection:
"...you don't know what's going on in the crazy culture outside.
It's a bugged and drugged world. Ninety percent of the bods have bugs
implanted in their skulls in hospital when they're born. They're
monitored constantly."
(Read more about Alfred Bester's skull bugs)
VeriChips are legal for implantation in people in the U.S.; see VeriChip
RFID Tag Patient Implant Badges Now FDA Approved. See also a related
story on a Proposed National Worker DNA Fingerprint Database. Read more
at RFID implants for guest workers, Latin leader keen on ID chips and
Chip implants for migrant workers?.
Note: The source for this story was inadvertently omitted; read the
press release at spychips.com; also, see the Silverman interview
transcript.
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Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants
By Bill Christensen
posted: 31 May 2006
07:04 pm ET
Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has
proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and
guest workers. He made the statement on national television on May 16.
Silverman was being interviewed on "Fox & Friends." Responding to the
Bush administration's call to know "who is in our country and why they
are here," he proposed using VeriChip RFID implants to register workers
at the border, and then verify their identities in the workplace. He
added, "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it...."
The VeriChip is a very small Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag
about the size of a large grain of rice. It can be injected directly
into the body; a special coating on the casing helps the VeriChip bond
with living tissue and stay in place. A special RFID reader broadcasts a
signal, and the antenna in the VeriChip draws power from the signal and
sends its data. The VeriChip is a passive RFID tag; since it does not
require a battery, it has a virtually unlimited life span.
RFID tags have long been used to identify animals in a variety of
settings; livestock, laboratory animals and pets have been "chipped" for
decades. Privacy advocates have long expressed concerns about this
technology being used in human beings.
In a related story, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe allegedly remarked
that microchips could be used to track seasonal workers to visiting U.S.
senators Jeff Sessions (Alabama) and Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania).
"President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have
microchips implanted in their bodies before they are permitted to enter
the US for seasonal work," Specter told Congress on April 25.
Implanting microchips in human beings for the purpose of monitoring is
not exactly news for science fiction fans; Alfred Bester wrote about
"skull bugs" in his 1974 novel The Computer Connection:
"...you don't know what's going on in the crazy culture outside.
It's a bugged and drugged world. Ninety percent of the bods have bugs
implanted in their skulls in hospital when they're born. They're
monitored constantly."
(Read more about Alfred Bester's skull bugs)
VeriChips are legal for implantation in people in the U.S.; see VeriChip
RFID Tag Patient Implant Badges Now FDA Approved. See also a related
story on a Proposed National Worker DNA Fingerprint Database. Read more
at RFID implants for guest workers, Latin leader keen on ID chips and
Chip implants for migrant workers?.
Note: The source for this story was inadvertently omitted; read the
press release at spychips.com; also, see the Silverman interview
transcript.
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